[…] lesser extent, the Liberal Party); that, in short, Harold Wilson’s charges against the British ‘secret state’ made in 1976 were correct and not mere paranoia. Captain Fred Holroyd, former Special Military Intelligence Unit Officer in Northern Ireland, and Colin Wallace, former Senior Information Officer in the psy ops unit, Information Policy, became the victims […]
[…] a sustained attempt by the British state to discredit Wallace, a campaign of whispers and rumours which reached its climax with the full-page attack on Wallace and Holroyd in The Independent. However, while we were researching Wallace, disinformation was run into the Channel 4 News office by Andy Tyrie of the UDA Wallace’s former […]
[…] hospital three thousand yards away..” Adams, incidentally, appears to be a conduit for Ministry of Defence disinformation. For example, in May last year he smeared Wallace and Holroyd in the Los Angeles Times, and more recently joined in the Sunday Times’ attempt to exculpate the SAS from their assassinations in Gibraltar. (On this latter […]
[…] manifestation of the MI6-MI5 wars, and more is bound to follow. (And it’s quite an interesting book, though perhaps not for the reasons Cavendish intended.) Wallace and Holroyd seem to have survived the Independent smear, even though Neil Kinnock, we hear, has used that smear as the excuse not to take their allegations on […]
[…] Action, it has become a modern classic, is virtually impossible to now locate, and still compares well with subsequent volumes by Martin Dillon, Paul Foot and Fred Holroyd. Only weeks after publication, the book’s printers mysteriously burned down in Dundalk and for many years Lindsay was subjected to harassment and surveillance. Possibly for these […]
[…] It is on the plus side that they were rubbished in the Sunday Times (26 November 1995) by MOD flacks James Adams and Liam Clarke; and Fred Holroyd, who was in working in Army Intelligence in the same patch in the same period, has not dismissed them. He says that a lot of Republicans […]
[…] the ‘feel’ of such a document right.) For reasons that have been elaborated in Lobster 11 (and, more recently, in the interview I did with Wallace and Holroyd in Tribune 23 January 1987), the project never got beyond its initial stages. But I have a copy of Wallace’s first notes for CO2 and they […]
[…] INLA, presumably one of the hardest of targets to penetrate, and MI5 had its agent, Pat Daly, being offered a place on the organisation’s inner sanctum. (Fred Holroyd says that in his day the British had an agent on the IRA’s Army Council; and assumes they have one now.) Is Winter’s dictum to be […]
[…] the mainland UK media have spent the past 3 months talking to Wallace (and us) but printing almost nothing, in Ireland, North and South, Wallace and Fred Holroyd have been making headlines every week. The strange silence of the British press cannot last for ever. Fitting up Wallace was a big mistake; indeed, rumour […]
[…] on but claimed that it ‘did not manifest itself to the people on the ground.’ This is implausible. Not only do we know from messers Wallace and Holroyd, who had been ‘on the ground’ during a previous power struggle over the control of intelligence, that those ‘on the ground’ know perfectly well what is […]
