[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] — 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] any planned or systematic way’. What precisely does ‘planned or systematic’ mean? This is pretty poor and it gets worse when he dismisses Holroyd, Baker and Colin Wallace because they have ‘something to gain’ by making their allegations. The state (and its employees), we are apparently supposed to think, do not. This is insulting. […]
[…] Smith’s account of the war in Ireland omits almost all the bad things the British state did there in the 1970s. There is no reference to Colin Wallace, dirty tricks, the Information Policy Unit, the Ulster Workers Council strike, and Fred Holroyd; and almost nothing on loyalist collaboration with the intelligence services and the […]
[…] trial that the Medellin cartel gave $10 million to the contras. FBI informant Wanda Palacio told the Kerry subcommittee that she saw cocaine being loaded onto pilot Wallace Sawyer’s plane in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1985. (Sawyer and his Southern Air Transport L382, carrying guns this time, were shot down over Nicaragua one year later. […]
[…] standpoint ever written. The previous best account was David Boulton’s The UVF, 1966-1973 (Torc Books, 1974). For that, readers are referred to Paul Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace?, (MacMillan, 1989) and Cusack and McDonald’s previous collaboration, The UVF (Poolbeg, 2000). Contractual Loyalism is that which negotiates its British/Loyalist identity against a secular class based […]
