[…] problem with the authorial voice. The author wants us to accept that some conspiracies are real but isn’t always willing to decide which ones. The section ‘Colin Wallace conspiracy’ contains a major inaccuracy and the author’s cop-op formula. After a quick whizz through some of the well known stories planted in the media by […]
Donald Allen During 1987, when some of the London media were pursuing the ‘Wilson plots’ story, Colin Wallace, the only public source on the story at the time, was working with a Channel 4 journalist called Robert Parker. At one point disinformation about Wallace was being fed to Parker, through another journalist, from a […]
[…] our debts. We shall survive. It is tempting to say something about the developing crisis re the Wilson-MI5 story (Lobstergate?). I write this 24 hours after Colin Wallace made his first speaking appearance on British television, and very impressive it was too, despite the interview apparently being edited by a blind man. By the […]
[PDF file]: Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt Garrick Alder T his essay concerns disputes over the identification by latent fingerprint analysis of Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace as a party in the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy. While there is inevitably some technical discussion of the forensic processes involved, it is anticipated that such […]
[PDF file]: Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry The Kincora cover-up continues Robin Ramsay Back story T his journal has been reporting on the Colin Wallace story since 1986.1 Among the many striking things Wallace has spoken and written about over the years was the situation in the Kincora boys’ home in Belfast in […]
[PDF file]: PRESS RELEASE ON BEHALF OF COLIN WALLACE, FORMER PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS OFFICER AT BRITISH ARMY HQ NORTHERN IRELAND: OPONI FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE KINCORA BOYS’ HOME COMPLAINT 17 October 2022 Statement of Colin Wallace “Five years after I was first approached by the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (OPONI) in 2017 to provide […]
[…] the Jeremy Thorpe scandal in the 1970s, and who subsequently claimed to have been working for MI5, was involved in a climbing accident in the Alps. Colin Wallace The Observer (12 December, 1993) reported that a proposed BBC drama-documentary, based on the Paul Foot book about Colin Wallace, had been scrapped. (The Observer had […]
[…] the death of Paul Foot in July, Simon Hoggart commented in his column in The Guardian 24 July that the BBC’s John Ware had never believed Colin Wallace, the subject of Foot’s book Who Framed Colin Wallace? Hoggart quoted Ware as saying: ‘He bought into all Wallace’s fantasies.’ I e-mailed Ware and the following […]
[…] months later, as we were editing what became “Confession of a Dangerous Man”, that Donna Korkala arranged through Marie McCarthy to have her husband interviewed by Mike Wallace for the “Sixty Minutes” show. (I don’t know anything about McCarthy’s involvement with the UN; my understanding is that she had been a baby-sitter for a […]
In August I received a set of British state forgeries from around 1974. The sender did not include his or her name and address. Reproduced below is one of them, reduced from A4. We don’t know for sure if this organisation actually existed. These four new ones plus two from Wallace’s files and the notorious […]
