From April to late June 1992, I spent some three months in a Dutch refugee camp, OC Zeewolde. I had applied for political asylum. The Dutch authorities had agreed immediately, to fully process the application. I gave them no reason for my application. The Bosnian war was beginning and the Dutch reception centres for refugees […]
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs […]
Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair Things had been going rather well for the British security and intelligence services in the 1990s. Under pressure from the Wright-Wallace-Massiter revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either knew nothing […]
[…] £9.75. I first came across Mr Bryans when, under his other pen name, Robert Harbinson, he became embroiled in the Kincora Boys Home aspect of the Colin Wallace affair in 1987 and 88. As Harbinson, he began including me on his distribution list for a series of ‘open letters’. Though obviously highly libellous, the […]
See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction In the first part of this essay, in Lobster 23, after reviewing the strategies adopted by significant British fascist parties in the period, […]
[…] Charles F. Geschickter, a Georgetown doctor, provided cover for the CIA’s work, and with that money he funded the radioisotope lab and equipment.(14) In Sub-project 86, Dr. Wallace Chan received CIA funds for research on polygraph machines and other means of establishing the veracity of agents. In an undated Memorandum for the Record, Chan […]
[…] Martin O’Hagan, Sunday World 11 February 1990 p.19. TARA Tara: there is not the basis for peaceful co- existence — Sunday News, 24th March 1974 p7. Colin Wallace Murder suspect Army spy? Sunday World, 28 September 1980 pp.1 and 3 Harry Irwin NOW! Gregory Voysey writes: In Lobster 17 (pp14-16) you note that Now!, […]
[…] of spooks under cover? Hearing No. 10 spokesman Tom Kelly telling some British journalists that Dr David Kelly was a ‘Walter Mitty character’ must have made Colin Wallace smile. For this is how the MOD briefed journalists about Wallace during his trial for murder in 1981. Corinne Souza pointed out to me that the […]
[…] element’. John Ware was probably one of those in Fred Holroyd’s mind when he wrote in his letter of: ‘ number of “respectable” journalists consistently “rubbished” Colin Wallace and myself. It is interesting to see their involvement in the release of current stories…….’ With David McKittrick, who is currently writing about Stevens for The […]
[…] and asked Gerrit to set up a newspaper or TV interview. He was (apparently) speaking for Terpil as well. The interview was arranged from London with Mike Wallace of CBS’s ‘Sixty Minutes’ (McCarthy knew Wallace from her time with the UN in New York) and took place in Beirut. It was transmitted on Sunday, […]
