[…] 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 work in […]
This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state […]
Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti,Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter – they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. Gordon […]
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. […]
Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of the […]
[…] mentioned by Hollingsworth in his piece about Parliament and spooks is the curious case of Ken Livingstone’s parliamentary questions. In 1987/8, fed by Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd via Livingstone’s then (unpaid) researcher Neil Grant, new (1987) MP Ken Livingstone put down hundreds of written questions in the House of Commons about the war […]
[…] World which in July ran a grotesquely inaccurate editorial blaming Wallace for the Ken Livingstone speech (printed in this issue). The real source for Livingstone was Fred Holroyd and a TV programme by RTE. Wallace has never spoken to Livingstone about these matters. Version 4 Source: Jim Campbell, Sunday World (Belfast) March 22 1981. […]
[…] members of this society get screwed because they know something the secret state would rather the rest of us didn’t now. The secret state’s response to Fred Holroyd, Colin Wallace, John Burnes, Harold Smith, and most recently Shayler and Tomlinson, is always the same: never mind the content of what they are saying; never […]
[…] was offered the chance to go and work with Anthony Summers on what became the book Honeytrap – and more or less gave up on the Wallace- Holroyd material. I thus inherited his ongoing correspondence with Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd and wrote Lobster 11 (Steve’s research formed much of the appendices). After issue […]
[…] chiefly for his unremitting hostility to the European Union and his love of Bob Marley’s music. But nearly a decade ago he was the intermediary between Fred Holroyd and the MOD who came with an offer of money if Fred gave up on Colin Wallace. Then he was a deniable intermediary between Libya and […]
