Advice and Recommendation The Secretary of State for Defence has asked me to advise him ‘Whether an injustice was done to Mr Colin Wallace as a result of the manner in which his case was presented to the Civil Service Appeal Board when on 17 October 1975 it considered the decision of the Ministry […]
[…] the search for independent corroboration of some of Colin Wallace’s story, I talked to a number of ‘Irish hands’, journalists who had been in Northern Ireland while Wallace was working there. One was Kevin Dowling, the Sunday Mirror correspondent there from 1970-74. Dowling was reluctant to talk much about that period of his life […]
NB. Some of the statements about Colin Wallace in this article are false. Wallace did not set up the “school teacher named Horn”; nor was he having an affair with Horn’s wife. This article, remarkable at the time, was written before Dorril made contact with Colin Wallace. It is clear that there is a […]
[…] being an offence in Northern Ireland, Kincora – and its related events – offered potential for blackmail by the security forces. Intimately involved in this was Colin Wallace, whose biography is given in the first of the two documents. Wallace worked in/with – which isn’t yet clear – the Psyops department of the British […]
[…] down the then old and ill Factor. He told them a jumbled story at the centre of which was his recruitment by a man called simply ‘ Wallace’. Wallace was ID’d for them by LBJ’s former mistress, Madeleine Brown, who, when they met her, had named Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace as the probable killer of […]
[…] Ruby and Oswald together in the conspiracy. Factor claimed to have been a member of the conspiracy, recruited as a marksman by a man he called ‘ Wallace’. He identified his ‘Wallace’ as Malcolm Wallace nearly a decade before the unidentified print found on the famous sixth floor was apparently identified in 1998 as […]
[…] few of which have attracted conspiracy theories. The Andrew piece, I guess, was supposed to discredit Hugh Thomas in the way intended by the Independent attack on Wallace and Holroyd. Alas for Andrew’s chums in the British state, as with the Wallace/Holroyd case, too many people know enough about the case for this to […]
Colin Wallace On the Colin Wallace front, the big event since issue 17 has been Paul Foot’s book, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (Macmillan, 1989). With this book Paul Foot has re-researched and synthesised all the previous work and produced what is likely to remain the definitive account of Wallace’s biography, his allegations and – […]
[…] had been in military intelligence in Northern Ireland, where he had become a victim of the internecine politics of the period. Holroyd was in touch with Colin Wallace, who had been a British Army psy-ops officer in Ireland. Wallace had also fallen foul of internal politics, had been framed for manslaughter, and was serving […]
[…] ‘the det’ (detachment), which Holroyd kept bumping into around his patch. Reviewing the recent book about Nairac (Death of a Hero, John Parker, Metro, London, 1999), Colin Wallace ruminates on what Nairac was doing and for whom; and wonders if Nairac even knew. ‘One very experienced SAS NCO – not quoted in the book […]
