[…] snippets. He tells us (p. 108) that when Labour won the election in 1974, IRD dropped its briefings on subversion in Britain. This may explain why Colin Wallace was in such demand post February 1974. With the IRD briefings stopped, Wallace’s InfPol unit in Northern Ireland was the last official U.K. source of unattributable […]
[…] island’s mental hospital three thousand yards away..” Adams, incidentally, appears to be a conduit for Ministry of Defence disinformation. For example, in May last year he smeared Wallace and Holroyd in the Los Angeles Times, and more recently joined in the Sunday Times’ attempt to exculpate the SAS from their assassinations in Gibraltar. (On […]
[…] to rob some banks. ‘West’ is just running the departmental line. His Oldfield chapter ends with a pasted-in erratum slip correcting errors in the paragraph on Colin Wallace after Wallace complained to the publisher. ‘West’ appears to have been unaware that Wallace’s conviction for manslaughter had been quashed and thought his wife worked for […]
[…] as their starting point information from former members of the security services and the British Army, and, in particular, certain accounts of the period written by Colin Wallace, the authors demonstrate that the outlines of a series of ramified psychological and disinformation operations against the Wilson Government of 1974-76 are visible. Among the elements […]
This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state […]
[…] Livingstone’s questions Not mentioned by Hollingsworth in his piece about Parliament and spooks is the curious case of Ken Livingstone’s parliamentary questions. In 1987/8, fed by Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd via Livingstone’s then (unpaid) researcher Neil Grant, new (1987) MP Ken Livingstone put down hundreds of written questions in the House of Commons […]
Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti, Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter – they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. […]
[…] occasional graphic were no 9, which he helped me paste up, and the Who’s Who, whose text he provided. In the middle of our researching the Colin Wallace material (i.e. early 1986) Steve was offered the chance to go and work with Anthony Summers on what became the book Honeytrap – and more or […]
James Adams Hutchinson, London, 1994. I first noticed James Adams when he began running some of the MOD’s disinformation lines about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in 19867. For a while I collected articles by him which seemed to show the traces of Whitehall briefings. Then I stopped: what was I going to do […]
From April to late June 1992, I spent some three months in a Dutch refugee camp, OC Zeewolde. I had applied for political asylum. The Dutch authorities had agreed immediately, to fully process the application. I gave them no reason for my application. The Bosnian war was beginning and the Dutch reception centres for refugees […]
