Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] xix-xx) After such an opening statement it comes as no surprise to see Dillon’s dismissive scepticism about British dirty tricks extending to the allegations made by Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd. Dillon follows the current ‘establishment line’ – fudge on Wallace, slam Holroyd. The key position held by Wallace in Northern Ireland, the mass […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
Ken Livingstone MP, has been putting dozens and dozens of questions to our state about the cases and allegations of Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, those bits of the secret state you are allowed to ask questions about, Northern Ireland, psy ops and so on. Putting down such questions is a fairly dispiriting business. […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] When that was sorted out the inquiry got going again only to run into more problems. Two key figures in the Kincora scandal, William McGrath and Colin Wallace, were excused from giving evidence to the committee of inquiry. Stephen Quinn, Secretary to the committee – which has the power to impose a three months’ […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] had told Evans: that Onassis had told her that he had financed the assassination.(10) This is proof of nothing but it is striking. The attempt on George Wallace Christopher Ketcham has re-examined the evidence suggesting that the shooter of Governor George Wallace, Arthur Bremer, was…..what? Some kind of stooge/patsy being manipulated for the Nixon […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Footy and me I did two things with Paul Foot. Over two days, he, Colin Wallace and I copy-edited the manuscript of what became Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace? Foot was impressively objective about his own writing, accepting editing suggestions on their merits. During a lunch break he said to me: ‘What’s a bright […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
Tara, Colin Wallace, ‘Clockwork Orange’, Fred Holroyd and ‘the Dirty War’: a selective bibliography of Irish sources Introduction The Kincora scandal was exposed in 1980. ‘The troubles’ started in Northern Ireland over 20 years ago, resulting in the services of Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in their respective spheres. ‘Tara’ was originally formed in […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] British secret state – from MI5, I presume – sicced onto me to pick my brains. This happened in 1987/8 when I was deeply embroiled with Colin Wallace and his story about anti-Labour hanky panky in Northern Ireland. I was on the phone to him every day and was talking to lots of journalists […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
Steve Bruce Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992: £7.99 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 London Review of Books of 8 October 1992 (pp. 18-19). In it he ran through the major items of evidence […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] problem with the authorial voice. The author wants us to accept that some conspiracies are real but isn’t always willing to decide which ones. The section ‘Colin Wallace conspiracy’ contains a major inaccuracy and the author’s cop-op formula. After a quick whizz through some of the well known stories planted in the media by […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] Picnic Publishing’s website. Talks, 1986-2004 Robin Ramsay Picnic Publishing, 297 pages, index, £9.99, ISBN 9780955610547 There are a number of talks in Politics and Paranoia about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd. (Holroyd had been in the British Army Special Military Intelligence Unit and Wallace had been a Senior Information Officer for the Army, both […]