[…] London Review of Books of 8 October 1992 (pp. 18-19). In it he ran through the major items of evidence against this ‘line’: the testimony of Fred Holroyd; the testimony of Albert Baker (Wallace recalled ‘the serious concern some of my colleagues at Army Headquarters in Lisburn and I felt in 1973 following the […]
[…] piece in The Sun, 18 September, reporting that six former BBC cameramen have been found to have brain tumours.()Radiation from viewfinders is suggested as the cause. Fred Holroyd vindicated In 1988 Ken Livingstone, then in his second year as an MP, was asking questions in the House of Commons about military operations in Northern […]
[…] and the subsequent “shoot-to-kill” inquiry conducted by the new retired Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, John Stalker. Basing himself largely on the evidence of Captain Fred Holroyd, Doherty unravels a whole series of covert operations during 1974, made possible by the presence of a British informer in the Gardai. Codenamed “the badger”, this […]
[…] 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 in Northern Ireland […]
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 […]
[…] of the loyalist gangs. By the mid-1980s almost everything else, including some fairly ad hoc joint Army-loyalist operations going back to the mid 1970s – where Fred Holroyd came in – had been tried without destroying the Provos. Larkin believes that a decision was made by the British state in the mid-1980s to train, […]
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 […]
For some time, the world’s secret services have been making use of loose structures parallel to the official clandestine hierarchies for their more controversial activities. Fred Holroyd’s revelations have shown how the British state employed Loyalist paramilitaries for kidnap and assassination operations in Eire, whilst the Irangate hearings have exposed what is, so far, the […]
[…] the late 1980s but not before. In a book which consists in large part of interviews with Loyalist ‘terrorists’, there is no reference by Taylor to Fred Holroyd, not only the sole British military intelligence officer from that war who has talked a length, but one who was working, liaising with the RUC, in […]
Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in the […]
