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

Lobster Issue

[…] name-check) and then 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 […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] name-check) and then 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] moves from things he claims he knows at the beginning to ‘I think there was a fear….” and ‘I think that’s why the authorities…’. He’s guessing. Colin Wallace was working for the British Army in Northern Ireland at the time in a press officer/psy-ops capacity. About this Fielding story he e-mailed me: ‘Yes, there […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] the 1970s and 80s, very poor indeed. None of the insiders who have talked critically about MI5 in the post 1964 era – Massiter, Shayler, Machon, Holroyd, Wallace, to name just the obvious examples – are quoted or cited. The official version is always treated as if it were unchallenged. This is thus less […]

The Defence of the Realm

Lobster Issue

[…] and quotes an MI5 assessment that the operation to get the Norman Scott-Jeremy Thorpe story into the media was a ‘private initiative’ (!) by Winter. * Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd get a sentence each. Wallace is described as a former information officer; his psy-ops role, admitted by HMG, is omitted. Their claims are […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints Garrick Alder Mac Wallace: The FBI print examination Further to my essay ‘Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt’ (Lobster 68), I submitted an FOI request to the US Department of Justice to obtain documents involved in the print examination that resulted in the FBI’s 1999 finding of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] This is an interim report, a sketch of some research since Lobster 11. Lobster 11 began as attempts to check some of the material provided by Colin Wallace, and, quite quickly, turned into a self-education course on the 1970s and the British Right. After the publication of issue 11, I had assumed that the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] believe that the IMF could ever have not bailed out the bankers and helped to save the euro?3 Not in the world I live in. Kincora and Wallace In early July the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIAI) into allegations of child abuse in Northern Ireland reached the stinky core: Kincora.4 The conversations with witnesses, […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] IRD probably had a hand in all this. The IRD document199 describes Wyatt as someone ‘with whom we have been in close See Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace?, especially the annexes in which some of the forgeries from this period are reproduced. 196 Prompted by Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, Ken Livingstone MP began […]

View from

Lobster Issue

[…] goes on Colin Wallace’s name reappeared in mid October in a piece by erstwhile Guardian investigative journalist (and playwright) Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Military “lost or destroyed” whistleblower files’.31 Wallace is that whistleblower and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is reporting that Wallace’s service file went missing in 2023. That was the year Wallace began legal […]

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