[PDF file]: […] an attempt to discredit my initial and subsequently accepted revelations about security services gone rogue. Much like dissidents in the old Soviet Union, both myself and Fred Holroyd, who independently revealed official collusion with illegal paramilitary violence, as well as extrajudicial killings, are portrayed as not merely bad, but almost certainly certifiably quite mad. […]
[PDF file]: […] the Ulster 38 Workers’ Council and its paramilitary allies on the streets and at the barricades, they were meeting people who were both political and, as Fred Holroyd has shown, military allies. Army co-operation with Protestant paramilitaries ran from blind eye turning to outright military cooperation. (136) The Army and the Protestant community also […]
[PDF file]: […] go to Iran as a Western student of Islam? Of course they’re going to think you might be spy – or pretend to think that. Why was Holroyd persecuted? A Christmas greeting from Fred Holroyd included an (as yet) unpublished essay59 about the circumstances of his being ousted from his job in Northern Ireland. […]
[…] go to Iran as a Western student of Islam? Of course they’re going to think you might be spy – or pretend to think that. Why was Holroyd persecuted? A Christmas greeting from Fred Holroyd included an (as yet) unpublished Sue Halpern, ‘The Drums of Cyberwar’ at . 56 57 Most recently the cyber […]
[PDF file]: […] MI5 assessment that the operation to get the Norman Scott-Jeremy Thorpe story into the media was a ‘private initiative’ (!) by Winter. * Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd get a sentence each. Wallace is described as a former information officer; his psy-ops role, admitted by HMG, is omitted. Their claims are not stated and […]
[PDF file]: […] been in close See Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace?, especially the annexes in which some of the forgeries from this period are reproduced. 196 Prompted by Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, Ken Livingstone MP began asking parliamentary questions about IRD in 1988. See Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace?, p. 17. 197 198 Still available […]
[PDF file]: […] pretty much running things themselves there with the barest accountability to, let alone direction by, the politicians. In the late 1980s after the Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd stories were publicised, it must have dawned on him that he hadn’t known what was going on while he had been the Minister. Rees’s papers are […]
[PDF file]: […] of deaths. On the ground, however, the fact that there was also collusion between the state and the Loyalist paramilitaries was known by British Army personnel: Fred Holroyd, for example, who was there in the mid 1970s, wrote about this in his memoir War Without Honour (1989); and it was discussed in Roger Faligot’s […]
[PDF file]: […] use, so why bother? But there it was in my local library and as I flipped through the index I saw a name that surprised me, Fred Holroyd, to whom Thomas devotes a page. Alas, Thomas has confused Holroyd with someone else and the page is entirely false. (He has him as the MI6 […]
