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. […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of their former employer to prevent al-Fayed buying his version of history.’ In fact, he concludes, ‘history owes Rees-Jones and Wingfield an enormous debt.’ According to Mike Wallace, who interviewed Rees-Jones on 60 Minutes, ‘…. he was offered a million bucks by The National Enquirer, turned it down; he was offered similar sums by […]
[…] shoot straight themselves, right? So they have to hire people to shoot for them. This particular canard was being run in the early 1970s by one J.C. Wallace. Kevin Dowling’s 1979 novel, Interface Ireland (Barrie and Jenkins, London), discussed at length in Lobster 17, has a character, transparently based on Wallace, called Major McDowell. […]
[…] not actually deny that the Service had plotted to undermine Wilson: not finding any evidence is not a denial; and thirdly, there is no mention of Colin Wallace, his documents and the other evidence. Here comes the line There does appear to be some kind of corporate ‘line’ here. Rupert Allason MP, a man […]
[…] by Kennedy and Knightley was pretty poor. A Putney Plot Peter Hain (Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1987) In which Peter Hain reads Lobster 11, goes to see Colin Wallace and re-examines the attempt to frame him for bank robbery. A very good summary of both the Wallace material and the South African (BOSS) connections to […]
[…] unprecedented public manifestation of the MI6-MI5 wars, and more is bound to follow. (And it’s quite an interesting book, though perhaps not for the reasons Cavendish intended.) Wallace and Holroyd seem to have survived the Independent smear, even though Neil Kinnock, we hear, has used that smear as the excuse not to take their […]
