[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As I read the first few paragraphs of the story about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in particular and […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock A s I read the first few paragraphs of the story about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in particular […]
[PDF file]: […] Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace?. It includes all the significant photographs of Wallace from his period in Northern Ireland, plus a good deal of Wallace and Fred Holroyd speaking recently. Highly recommended.39 Woke corps? Towards the end of a double-page spread in The Times (18 September hard copy; 17 digital), Gerard Baker quoted this […]
[PDF file]: Kincora: abuse and the British state Colin Wallace The Kincora boys home scandal sent shock waves throughout Ireland when it first received media coverage in early 1980. Since then there have been at least five enquiries of various kinds into the systematic sexual abuse of boys in public care in Kincora and other institutions, but […]
[…] Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace?. It includes all the significant photographs of Wallace from his period in Northern Ireland, plus a good deal of Wallace and Fred Holroyd speaking recently. Highly recommended.38 Woke corps? Towards the end of a double-page spread in The Times (18 September hard copy; 17 digital), Gerard Baker quoted this […]
[PDF file]: […] in Northern Ireland, the psy-ops outfit, as was Colin Wallace. The thing about bureaucracies is their procedures. When I was briefly a The picture is from Fred Holroyd with Nick Burbridge, War Without Honour (Hull: Medium, 1989) p. 134. At the time of the book’s publication there was still a slight chance of IRA […]
[…] and Peter Montgomery, but also that Cunningham and Montgomery were linked with homosexual activities involving prominent people in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and London. When Fred Holroyd and I interviewed Robin Bryans he told us about a Belfast artist/painter called Sidney Smith who was allegedly a close friend of Sir Knox Cunningham and […]
[PDF file]: […] didn’t try to ban the book. But its claims that Sessargo was a ‘Walter Mitty’ smacked of previous campaigns to discredit whistleblowers from Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd through to David Shayler. Also, if Sessargo were simply a fantasist, why (as Barry Wigmore of the Daily Mail claimed) was he ‘more hated than Bin […]
[PDF file]: […] on this is as convincing as the scans and the letter on his blog from his dentist attesting to the presence of the foreign bodies.40 When Fred Holroyd and I interviewed Robin Bryans he told us about a Belfast artist/painter called Sidney Smith who was allegedly a close friend of Sir Knox Cunningham and […]
