The Faber book of Espionage

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] or from the various tv programmes she appeared on, absurdly he reproduces a short letter she wrote to New Society. The entry on G.K. Young’s friend (and critic of MI5) Anthony Cavendish begins, snidely, ‘The Bulgarian who changed his name to Anthony Cavendish…’; and there is, of course, nothing from messers Wallace, Holroyd or Rusbridger.

Enemies of the State

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] investigator, but describing himself as ‘broadcaster and author’ (this is his first book). His range of contacts — listed in the Acknowledgements — now include Capt. Fred Holroyd, Tam Dalyell MP, Duncan Campbell, Paul Foot, Mark Hollingsworth and Gerry Gable. The reader is invited to accept that Murray has undergone a political conversion and […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] slowly changing its content. In number 43, for example, they carried a couple of very interesting pieces on the war in Rhodesia. (I sent them to Fred Holroyd, who took part in that war. He pronounced them pretty accurate.) Even more striking is the essay ‘Flouride: Commie Plot or Capitalist Ploy?’ by Joel Griffiths […]

Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] isn’t it? IFF(UK) Suite 500, Chesham House, 150 Regent St, London W1R 5FA. I have it on reliable authority that in 1987 — when the Wallace and Holroyd story was at its first peak — MI5 approached IFF(UK) and suggested that they take legal action against Lobster using MI5 money. IFF refused. It should […]

Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] educate themselves in the way that I was doing was unpalatable and I was quickly dropped. Another set of talks here are about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd and what they had to tell us about the state’s activities in Northern Ireland and the UK; and related to that are a couple about the […]

First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] SECTION GREECE 43 N.AFRICA, ITALY WITH 8TH ARMY 44 GCHQ 45- FAMILY SILK TRADE 70 RETIRED MARSHALL, DAPHNE MI5 (C) 1986 + INVOLVED IN MOD TEDDY TAYLOR/FRED HOLROYD NEGOTIATIONS CIRCA 1986/7 MASON, TOWYN IRD 1960s NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY 80’S DEPUTY SEC. BBC RADIO MATES, MARY ROSAMUND (PATON) MI5 (C) DIVORCED WIFE […]

Friends of the British Secret State

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] 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 […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] adds: ‘Amateurs such as Peter Green would not let explanations lie…’. Who is Peter Green? Does he mean Rob Green, Hilda Murrell’s nephew? Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd was apparently confined to a mental hospital after he made public the turf war that raged between MI5 and MI6 over who ran […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] adds: ‘Amateurs such as Peter Green would not let explanations lie…’. Who is Peter Green? Does he mean Rob Green, Hilda Murrell’s nephew? Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd after he MI5 and Ireland’. was apparently confined to a mental hospital made public the turf war that raged between MI6 over who […]

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