[…] is: how may of these people are Nasty Bastards? Thanks to Dorril, we are a step closer to finding out, though it will take another Massiter, a Wallace or a Holroyd to get inside the citadel. I have not sought to damn Silent Conspiracy with faint praise, I Hope. Dorril’s contribution to research in […]
[…] 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.
[…] there are some dumb mistakes. The Fluency Committee was not set up in Whitehall to examine the evidence that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent (p.148); Colin Wallace has not ‘admitted putting out anti-Wilson material in an operation known as Clockwork Orange’ (p.149). Do such minor errors matter? I doubt it in this case. […]
[…] Northern Ireland: The Orange State (London: Pluto, 1975) and Farrell, M., Arming the Protestants (London: Pluto, 1975) Patterson, H. (see note 16) Foot, P. Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan, 1989) Cusack and McDonald (see note 21) Curtis, L. Ireland: The Propaganda War (London: Pluto Press, 1984) Hillyard, P. in Fine and Millar Policing […]
[…] edition, recently repeated during C4’s 25th anniversary celebrations, was called ‘Secrets’ (playing out to The Beatles singing ‘Do you want to know a secret?’) and featured Colin Wallace, then a media pariah, who at one point waved to the cameras at unseen watchers from the intelligence community. That he shared After Dark’s red sofas […]
[…] York with the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in March 1949, with many big names in attendance (including former Vice-President Henry Wallace). The Waldorf event is crucial because of its importance as a catalyst for what was to come. AIF, core members being Hook, Macdonald, Mary McCarthy, and […]
[…] did Jack and Sirhan did Bobby, and that’s that. Cases closed. Surprisingly, he’s a little more open-minded with Martin Luther King and the attempted assassination of George Wallace. Know them by their bibliographical references! Sifakis usually goes for the popular work rather than the scholarly study, and there are some surprising omissions. For instance, […]
[…] any other name? Your readers may also be aware that Mrs Thatcher and her Ministers have repeatedly stated that my allegations and those of my colleague, Colin Wallace, have been thoroughly investigated and no evidence has been found to substantiate them – how very odd. Very recently Mr Tom King was forced to admit […]
[…] — private armies, rumours of coups and Heathrow manoeuvres, are all missing. And so on. There is a chapter on the ‘Wilson plots’ material — the Wright, Wallace story. There is a choice here. Either: it is splendid that an important, main-line political biographer like Pimlott includes such a chapter. Or: though Pimlott cites […]
[…] a print and TV journalist. In 1977, having worked in Northern Ireland for the Mirror, Dowling wrote a novel about the province, Interface, which briefly portrayed Colin Wallace and the Information Policy unit in Northern Ireland, which was then still a very sensitive official secret.(2) His career went into the toilet for that. Fast […]
