Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] and details of the intelligence operation, Clockwork Orange.’ That Wallace was a ‘Walter Mitty’ figure was one of the lines put out by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) during Wallace’s trial in 1981 for murder. A piece in Private Eye 10 June 1987, presumably by Paul Foot, said, ‘Panorama reporter John Ware argued strongly […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] officials of the Atlantic Council, which has the astonishing ‘charitable purpose’ of building support for NATO. It incorporates Peace Through NATO, the group central to Michael Heseltine’s MoD campaign against CND in the early 1980s. It receives over £100,000 a year from the Foreign Office, as well as payments from the Dulverton Trust.(18) TUCETU […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] who had declined to sign The Beatles. But even if they had pursued the Wilson steer towards Wallace, in 1976/7 finding him would have been difficult: the MOD has parked him in Preston. Had they found him, Wallace says today: ‘…if I had been made aware that the former PM had asked Penrose and […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] QC, after examining the evidence, had found that the 1975 Civil Service Appeal Board hearing of Colin Wallace’s appeal against his dismissal had been rigged by the MOD, just as Wallace had claimed; and this meant that Wallace was eventually going to win his struggle with the British state. (Calcutt’s judgement is reproduced in […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] the 1980s battle of Helen Smiths father, a retired policeman, to prove that his daughter, a nurse, was murdered in Saudi Arabia. This pitched him against spook, MOD and FO officials alike – along with the British class system – who perceived state and private sector interests to be best served by cynical cover-up […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] including confidential legally-privileged material are being routinely intercepted by GCHQ and processed by the security and intelligence services. Communications between Britain and Ireland were intercepted via an MOD installation at Capenhurst in Cheshire and later, it is claimed, by the Echelon system. The rights groups say that RIPA fails to provide adequate safeguards to […]