[…] trying to buy the arms. (7) The similarities lie in the way the British state used the arms find to make propaganda. Fig. 1 Illustration shows Colin Wallace posing, circa 1972, in a pile of British Army weapons, allegedly seized from the IRA (but actually British Army property) Picture from p. 119 of The […]
[…] already being investigated in Congress). Hence, perhaps, LBJ’s role in organising the cover-up. More tentatively he offers the outline of the Billy Sol Estes – Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace story. He does not take seriously the claim that the murder was organised by LBJ’s lawyer/fixer, Ed Clark, using ‘Mac’ Wallace, as suggested in Barr McClellan’s […]
[…] September) for whom we had produced a ‘ragbag of spelling and factual errors…a regurgitation of the wilder fantasies of Private Eye, Auberon Waugh, Spycatcher, Peter Wright, Colin Wallace and Tony Benn.’ Joe Haines first attacked us in 1986 when Tribune printed an abbreviated version of Lobster 11. Since then he as rubbished everyone who […]
Never mind Peter Wright, he was obviously lying in Spycatcher anyway. Wallace is a vastly more important source: he doesn’t tell lies, for one thing; and he’s got bits of paper, evidence, some of which concerns his dealings with the late Airey Neave after he was thrown out of government service. At the time […]
[…] this document, just to read it. At this point a little bell may be ringing in your ears. For this is precisely the technique used by Colin Wallace in the British Army’s psy-ops unit in Belfast in the 1970s. Wallace would take journalists, especially foreign journalists whose knowledge of British politics was limited, into […]
[PDF file]: Faustian Bargains Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas Joan Mellen London and New York: Bloomsbury; 2016, h/b, £18.99 P rofessor Mellen spoke about ‘Mac’ Wallace, who is one of the two subjects of this book, a couple of years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when […]
[…] Liam Clarke. And about Mr Clarke there is a story to tell. When I was trying to get the major media to take the allegations of Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd seriously, there were a number of journalists who appeared to be on their side, to whom I (and Wallace and Holroyd) spoke freely. […]
[…] Services, which imports the lie-detector, are worth investigation. Harrison was Special Branch liaison officer between the Sussex Police and MI5, and the officer who interrogated Captain Colin Wallace in Brighton after Wallace killed his lover’s husband. Small world. (3) * * * Still unreleased is the ‘Whiteside Inquiry”. In December 1981 R.U.C. Chief Sir […]
[…] Secker and Warburg, 1978). The revelations first appeared in the Observer during 1977. Peter Wright, Spycatcher (New York: Viking Penguin, 1987). See Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan, 1988) and Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1991). These are still the fullest and best […]
[…] of this, although it confirms that the Army were ‘furious’ with the secret talks with the IRA, believing that they had the IRA ‘on the run’. Colin Wallace confirmed in 1980 that MI5 officers in Northern Ireland not only objected to Wilson being Prime Minister, but to his Irish policies. (29) Enmeshed in these […]
