[…] lesser extent, the Liberal Party); that, in short, Harold Wilson’s charges against the British ‘secret state’ made in 1976 were correct and not mere paranoia. Captain Fred Holroyd, former Special Military Intelligence Unit Officer in Northern Ireland, and Colin Wallace, former Senior Information Officer in the psy ops unit, Information Policy, became the victims […]
[…] isn’t it? IFF(UK) Suite 500, Chesham House, 150 Regent St, London W1R 5FA. I have it on reliable authority that in 1987 — when the Wallace and Holroyd story was at its first peak — MI5 approached IFF(UK) and suggested that they take legal action against Lobster using MI5 money. IFF refused. It should […]
[…] 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 couple about the […]
[…] SECTION GREECE 43 N.AFRICA, ITALY WITH 8TH ARMY 44 GCHQ 45- FAMILY SILK TRADE 70 RETIRED MARSHALL, DAPHNE MI5 (C) 1986 + INVOLVED IN MOD TEDDY TAYLOR/FRED HOLROYD NEGOTIATIONS CIRCA 1986/7 MASON, TOWYN IRD 1960s NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY 80’S DEPUTY SEC. BBC RADIO MATES, MARY ROSAMUND (PATON) MI5 (C) DIVORCED WIFE […]
[…] Littlejohn in the Irish Republic against the IRA, he had not been given a licence to rob banks, as he had claimed (p. 146) Yet Captain Fred Holroyd, of the Special Military Intelligence Unit in Northern Ireland, told us that the SIS man there in his day, Craig Smellie, asked him a year later […]
[…] a sustained attempt by the British state to discredit Wallace, a campaign of whispers and rumours which reached its climax with the full-page attack on Wallace and Holroyd in The Independent. However, while we were researching Wallace, disinformation was run into the Channel 4 News office by Andy Tyrie of the UDA Wallace’s former […]
[…] hospital three thousand yards away..” Adams, incidentally, appears to be a conduit for Ministry of Defence disinformation. For example, in May last year he smeared Wallace and Holroyd in the Los Angeles Times, and more recently joined in the Sunday Times’ attempt to exculpate the SAS from their assassinations in Gibraltar. (On this latter […]
[…] 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 allegations on […]
[…] Action, it has become a modern classic, is virtually impossible to now locate, and still compares well with subsequent volumes by Martin Dillon, Paul Foot and Fred Holroyd. Only weeks after publication, the book’s printers mysteriously burned down in Dundalk and for many years Lindsay was subjected to harassment and surveillance. Possibly for these […]
[…] It is on the plus side that they were rubbished in the Sunday Times (26 November 1995) by MOD flacks James Adams and Liam Clarke; and Fred Holroyd, who was in working in Army Intelligence in the same patch in the same period, has not dismissed them. He says that a lot of Republicans […]
