[…] of Dorril and Ramsay (Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, London 1991), of David Leigh (The Wilson Plot, London 1988), or of Paul Foot (Who Framed Colin Wallace?, London 1988). Smear! might have appeared too late for Morgan to take account of; the same cannot be said for the other works. See, for example, […]
[…] classic IRD disinformation technique, described in use in Cyprus in the 1960s by Charles Foley in his book Legacy of Strife (2) and, more recently, by Colin Wallace working in Information Policy in Northern Ireland in the 1970s: show the dummies forgeries but don’t let them take them out of the room Finding MI6 […]
[…] the most likely culprit. These were not the normal anonymous note. Their construction and the use of an old typewriter is very reminiscent of similar documents Colin Wallace was putting together in Northern Ireland, on behalf of Information Policy, as part of Clockwork Orange. There is the same blend of known facts, intriguing new […]
[…] they had to 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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.
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
