[…] March 7 Livingstone also asked “in what capacity Mr Colin Wallace served in the Ulster Defence Regiment whilst a Senior Information Officer in Northern Ireland?”Roger Freeman, junior MOD Minister replied: “Mr Wallace served as a Part Time 2nd Lieutenant in 1(Co. Antrim) UDR.” Which was the wrong answer. An error? An attempt to disinform? […]
[…] FO 1949 Economic relations dept. FO; Cyprus – part of the Albanian operation 1951 Head of Middle East desk, Cairo. BREO Cyprus. Operations against Iran 1953 attached MOD. Specialised in ‘economic and defence intelligence’ 1956 Operation Struggle against Syria. Middle East Director of Production. Assassination attempts against Nasser. Deputy Chief 1960 Under-Sec. 1961 Retired. […]
[…] they got there. And when some of the soldier subjects got ill, began complaining and trying to find out what had been done to them, the traditional MOD cover-up was put into place. Another shoddy story in a long line of shoddy MOD stories. This is the first study of its kind; and, given […]
[…] mistake; indeed, rumour now has it that while MI5 and Special Branch were stuffing Wallace into prison, the Ministry of Defence were trying to prevent it happening. MOD, by implication, knew better. Well, so far, the mud hasn’t been flung at MOD. In all accounts so far – ie the Wright-derived accounts – there […]
[…] SERVICE 1935 SECRETARIES OFFICE HM CUSTOMS AND EXCISE 1940 EMPLOYED IN ‘SPECIAL DUTIES’ 1945 ASSIST SEC CABINET OFFICE 1948 BOARD OF TRADE 1951 ASSIST UNDER-SEC OF STATE MOD 1967 RETIRED MOD ON THE ‘INTELLIGENCE SIDE’ RESPONSIBLE FOR ‘COVER PLANS’ DRINKALL, JOHN KENNETH CMG (1977) B 1.1.22 BRASENOSE COLL OXFORD IRD 1942 INDIAN ARMY 1947 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] around the country in a Chinook helicopter. Aislinn Simpson, ‘William flies into a storm for landing at Kate’s…’, The Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2008; Andy McSmith, ‘ MoD admits it was naive to allow Prince William’s joyrides in helicopters’, The Independent, 24 April 2008. The official website contains not only transcripts of each day’s […]
Wensley Clarkson Blake Publishing, London 1998, £16.99 Remember Jonathan Moyle, the ex-RAF officer, editor of Defence Helicopter World, who was found dead, hanging in a wardrobe in his hotel room in Chile in 1990? This is about him – and about his death. It is done in the most irritating manner possible, written as a […]
[…] Department to be purely administrative in function and would only have thought about any possible political repercussions if Legg had held a similar position at, say, the MOD or the Foreign Office. After fully investigating me, an investigation of which I was unaware at the time, the Security Service, with a little help from […]
[…] that is not of its own making, with its own ‘stab in the back’ legend. British officers were certainly open about their situation before withdrawal despite desperate MoD attempts to restrict their communications with the outside world. The view of the military in Southern Iraq was that the Americans would now fare no better: […]
