[…] unprecedented public manifestation of the MI6-MI5 wars, and more is bound to follow. (And it’s quite an interesting book, though perhaps not for the reasons Cavendish intended.) Wallace and Holroyd seem to have survived the Independent smear, even though Neil Kinnock, we hear, has used that smear as the excuse not to take their […]
[…] I gave up trying to make sense of the jumble of names and dates….’ In this new version Young, Walter Walker and all that has gone. Colin Wallace is not mentioned; Wright gets one reference in the introduction. Instead of redoing Pencourt as it had been intended in the first place, Freeman has chosen […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] if unsurprisingly, he demonstrates empirically that the government’s initial misinformation was successful: it is the first impression which sticks. For the only time in the book Colin Wallace is quoted on this: ‘The important thing is to get saturation coverage for your story as soon after the controversial event as possible. Once the papers […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] they had to educate themselves in the way that I was doing was unpalatable and I was quickly dropped. Another set of talks here are about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd and what they had to tell us about the state’s activities in Northern Ireland and the UK; and related to that are a […]
