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... on the intelligence services, on IRD, the Pinay Circle, Interdoc etc. etc. far too many even for a list. But here are some fairly typical snippets. He tell us (p . 108) that when Labour won the election in 1974, IRD dropped its briefings on subversion in Britain. This may explain why Colin Wallace was in such demand post February 1974. With the IRD briefings stopped, Wallace's InfPol unit in Northern Ireland was the last official U.K . source of unattributable briefings on the British left. He says (p . 113) that the late Iain Hamilton, biographer of Arthur Koestler, and Director of Forum World Features was 'fully ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-11.htm
... of its invisibility, even if it reads like an electoral register. Showing two fingers to the D Notice Committee must have given enormous pleasure. What I want to know is: how may of these people are Nasty Bastards? Thanks to Dorril, we are a step closer to finding out, though it will take another Massiter, a Wallace or a Holroyd to get inside the citadel. I have not sought to damn Silent Conspiracy with faint praise, I Hope. Dorril's contribution to research in this field has been immense. But Silent Conspiracy is trying to be something it is not. What polemic there is in the book seems out of place. ' Colin Challen At ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-21.htm
... various tv programmes she appeared on, absurdly he reproduces a short letter she wrote to New Society. The entry on G.K . Young's friend (and critic of MI5) Anthony Cavendish begins, snidely, 'The Bulgarian who changed his name to Anthony Cavendish... '; and there is, of course, nothing from messers Wallace, Holroyd or Rusbridger. Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-17.htm
... file, n.d .] 498 pp. Illustrated, bibliography, index. Sifakis stands for no nonsense when it comes to conspiracies against the Kennedys: Oswald did Jack and Sirhan did Bobby, and that's that. Cases closed. Surprisingly, he's a little more open-minded with Martin Luther King and the attempted assassination of George Wallace. Know them by their bibliographical references! Sifakis usually goes for the popular work rather than the scholarly study, and there are some surprising omissions. For instance, how could one write about Lincoln's death without mentioning Otto Eisenschiml's monumental 1937 work Why Was Lincoln Murdered?, if only to dismiss it. Use this Encyclopedia with caution. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-03.htm
... hung on two ambiguous diary entries'.) This is the latest instance where there is almost enough evidence to show that the prosecution was mounted by the state simply to discredit an individual. Millions of pounds are being spent trying to ruin the reputations of individuals in the UK. The obvious other examples which spring to mind are: Colin Wallace -- framed on a manslaughter charge then the victim of a disinformation campaign by state sources. Dr. Hugh Thomas -- on whom the state spent an estimated 3,000,000 in 1985/6 in a failed attempt to convict him of fiddling his medical expenses. At one point the medical records of every person living ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-06.htm
... the D-Notice Affair the received version is treated as unproblematic. The extraordinary period between the elections of 1974 is skimmed over in a couple of pages -- private armies, rumours of coups and Heathrow manoeuvres, are all missing. And so on. There is a chapter on the 'Wilson plots' material -- the Wright, Wallace story. There is a choice here. Either: it is splendid that an important, main-line political biographer like Pimlott includes such a chapter. Or: though Pimlott cites many of the main texts, he hasn't really dealt with it adequately. The result is a bit of mess, a half-hearted 'OK, yes ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-13.htm
... MOD answering an inquisitive Labour MP, Urban concludes that his 'own research has not produced any evidence to support the claim that the security forces colluded with loyalist death squads in any planned or systematic way'. What precisely does 'planned or systematic' mean? This is pretty poor and it gets worse when he dismisses Holroyd, Baker and Colin Wallace because they have 'something to gain' by making their allegations. The state (and its employees), we are apparently supposed to think, do not. This is insulting. Red-handed Just how difficult the 'no collaboration' line is to defend was illustrated by Colin Wallace in a long review of Steve Bruce's book in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 107 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-11.htm
... problem with Mr Ben-Menashe. A number of people in the U.S ., Peter Dale Scott for example, and David McMichael, whose opinions I take seriously, do not trust him. Ben-Menashe illustrates a peculiar modern problem. These days, when the state sees a story like the October Surprise (or the Wallace/Holroyd allegations) beginning to be taken seriously, it will launch disinformation and disinformation agents to muddy the pool and discredit the story and/or any genuine sources. It happened in the Garrison inquiry, as Gordon Novel, for one, has admitted. It happened with Wallace and Holroyd, for example when Professor Paul Wilkinson tried ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-09.htm
... uk (Issue 24) December 1992 Last | Contents | Next Issue 24 The Dust Has Never Settled Robin Bryans Honeyford Press, 58 Argyle Road, London W13 8AA 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 content of these letters was largely obscure to me -- and to the other people I knew who were getting them -- but they seemed to indicate that the author ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-13.htm
... Larry for a tiny little fragment in Tribune? Why not for the much bigger piece in Lobster 23 ? Indeed, why has Lobster never been given the Searchlight smear treatment? It may be that Lobster is simply too small to be worth Searchlight's attention, but I suspect the real reason lies elsewhere. Throughout the 1986-88 period Colin Wallace and Peter Wright provided evidence of 'MI5 plots'. On closer examination, however, as Steve Dorril and I tried to elaborate in our book Smear!, the picture of the mid 1970s was more complex than this. People either linked to MI6 or former officers of MI6 were running their own operations during this period. This is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-01.htm
