Ken Livingstone MP, has been putting dozens and dozens of questions to our state about the cases and allegations of Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, those bits of the secret state you are allowed to ask questions about, Northern Ireland, psy ops and so on. Putting down such questions is a fairly dispiriting business. […]
[…] xix-xx) After such an opening statement it comes as no surprise to see Dillon’s dismissive scepticism about British dirty tricks extending to the allegations made by Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd. Dillon follows the current ‘establishment line’ – fudge on Wallace, slam Holroyd. The key position held by Wallace in Northern Ireland, the mass […]
[…] When that was sorted out the inquiry got going again only to run into more problems. Two key figures in the Kincora scandal, William McGrath and Colin Wallace, were excused from giving evidence to the committee of inquiry. Stephen Quinn, Secretary to the committee – which has the power to impose a three months’ […]
[…] had told Evans: that Onassis had told her that he had financed the assassination.(10) This is proof of nothing but it is striking. The attempt on George Wallace Christopher Ketcham has re-examined the evidence suggesting that the shooter of Governor George Wallace, Arthur Bremer, was…..what? Some kind of stooge/patsy being manipulated for the Nixon […]
Footy and me I did two things with Paul Foot. Over two days, he, Colin Wallace and I copy-edited the manuscript of what became Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace? Foot was impressively objective about his own writing, accepting editing suggestions on their merits. During a lunch break he said to me: ‘What’s a bright […]
Tara, Colin Wallace, ‘Clockwork Orange’, Fred Holroyd and ‘the Dirty War’: a selective bibliography of Irish sources Introduction The Kincora scandal was exposed in 1980. ‘The troubles’ started in Northern Ireland over 20 years ago, resulting in the services of Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in their respective spheres. ‘Tara’ was originally formed in […]
[…] British secret state – from MI5, I presume – sicced onto me to pick my brains. This happened in 1987/8 when I was deeply embroiled with Colin Wallace and his story about anti-Labour hanky panky in Northern Ireland. I was on the phone to him every day and was talking to lots of journalists […]
Steve Bruce Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992: £7.99 Red-handed Just how difficult the ‘no collaboration’ line is to defend was illustrated by Colin Wallace in a long review of Steve Bruce’s book in the London Review of Books of 8 October 1992 (pp. 18-19). In it he ran through the major items of evidence […]
[…] Picnic Publishing’s website. Talks, 1986-2004 Robin Ramsay Picnic Publishing, 297 pages, index, £9.99, ISBN 9780955610547 There are a number of talks in Politics and Paranoia about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd. (Holroyd had been in the British Army Special Military Intelligence Unit and Wallace had been a Senior Information Officer for the Army, both […]
Clockwork Orange 2 Jottings Here is another, previously unpublished section from Wallace’s 1974 jottings for the aborted operation ‘Clockwork Orange 2’. Can Politicians Be Trusted? N. St. Stevas: homosexual – boyfriend of Elton John’s manager – cocaine user at parties Homosexual relationships – Heath, Van Straubenzee, St. John Stevas, Thorpe Child prostitution: William McGrath, Van […]
