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.

The Cecil King coup plot

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] 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 […]

The Organising of Intellectual Consensus: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Post-War US-European Relations (Part I)

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] 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 […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] 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 […]

Letter from Fred Holroyd to The Guardian

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] 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 […]

Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] 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, […]

Harold Wilson

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Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] — 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 […]

The View from the Bridge. British American Project. Teddy Taylor MP. New Labour

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[…] nearly a decade ago he was the intermediary between Fred Holroyd and the MOD who came with an offer of money if Fred gave up on Colin Wallace. Then he was a deniable intermediary between Libya and the Foreign Office. More recently he offered Fred Holroyd £100,000 to break the British mercenary Peter Bleach […]

The Intelligence Files: Today’s secrets, tomorrow’s scandals

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] 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 […]

Enemies of the state

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] individual. Millions of pounds are being spent trying to ruin the reputations of individuals in the UK. The obvious other examples which spring to mind are: Colin Wallace — framed on a manslaughter charge then the victim of a disinformation campaign by state sources. Dr. Hugh Thomas — on whom the state spent an […]

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