Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
Parliamentary Question for Priority Written Answer on Thursday 27th November 1986 Question 160W MR. KEVIN McNAMARA: To ask Mr. Attorney General, if he will prosecute Mr. Colin Wallace, former senior information officer, Psychops, Army Headquarters, Norther Ireland for revealing details of secret service operations against Her Majesty’s Government in the period 1974 to 1979 […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] as their starting point information from former members of the security services and the British Army, and, in particular, certain accounts of the period written by Colin Wallace, the authors demonstrate that the outlines of a series of ramified psychological and disinformation operations against the Wilson Government of 1974-76 are visible. Among the elements […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Livingstone’s questions Not mentioned by Hollingsworth in his piece about Parliament and spooks is the curious case of Ken Livingstone’s parliamentary questions. In 1987/8, fed by Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd via Livingstone’s then (unpaid) researcher Neil Grant, new (1987) MP Ken Livingstone put down hundreds of written questions in the House of Commons […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti, Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter – they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] could be, and should be, ubiquitous in its assessment of risk and prevention of subversion and terrorism; that far from being the threat to democracy described by Wallace, Wright, Massiter et al, MI5, as Mrs Rimington put it in, ‘enhances’ democracy.(5) Even if this isn’t rejected out of hand at the outset, we don’t […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] of their former employer to prevent al-Fayed buying his version of history.’ In fact, he concludes, ‘history owes Rees-Jones and Wingfield an enormous debt.’ According to Mike Wallace, who interviewed Rees-Jones on 60 Minutes, ‘…. he was offered a million bucks by The National Enquirer, turned it down; he was offered similar sums by […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] shoot straight themselves, right? So they have to hire people to shoot for them. This particular canard was being run in the early 1970s by one J.C. Wallace. Kevin Dowling’s 1979 novel, Interface Ireland (Barrie and Jenkins, London), discussed at length in Lobster 17, has a character, transparently based on Wallace, called Major McDowell. […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] not actually deny that the Service had plotted to undermine Wilson: not finding any evidence is not a denial; and thirdly, there is no mention of Colin Wallace, his documents and the other evidence. Here comes the line There does appear to be some kind of corporate ‘line’ here. Rupert Allason MP, a man […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] by Kennedy and Knightley was pretty poor. A Putney Plot Peter Hain (Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1987) In which Peter Hain reads Lobster 11, goes to see Colin Wallace and re-examines the attempt to frame him for bank robbery. A very good summary of both the Wallace material and the South African (BOSS) connections to […]
