[…] if unsurprisingly, he demonstrates empirically that the government’s initial misinformation was successful: it is the first impression which sticks. For the only time in the book Colin Wallace is quoted on this: ‘The important thing is to get saturation coverage for your story as soon after the controversial event as possible. Once the papers […]
[…] could be, and should be, ubiquitous in its assessment of risk and prevention of subversion and terrorism; that far from being the threat to democracy described by Wallace, Wright, Massiter et al, MI5, as Mrs Rimington put it in, ‘enhances’ democracy.(5) Even if this isn’t rejected out of hand at the outset, we don’t […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] I gave up trying to make sense of the jumble of names and dates….’ In this new version Young, Walter Walker and all that has gone. Colin Wallace is not mentioned; Wright gets one reference in the introduction. Instead of redoing Pencourt as it had been intended in the first place, Freeman has chosen […]
[…] It may be that Lobster is simply too small to be worth Searchlight‘s attention, but I suspect the real reason lies elsewhere. Throughout the 1986-88 period Colin Wallace and Peter Wright provided evidence of ‘MI5 plots’. On closer examination, however, as Steve Dorril and I tried to elaborate in our book Smear!, the picture […]
[…] Carrington, Foreign Secretary under Mrs Thatcher and currently Chair of the Bilderberg organisation; Lord Gowrie, former arts minister and chair of the Arts Council; and John Kemp- Wallace, former chair of the Stock Exchange. The income generated by Dulverton’s capital comes to well over £2,000,000 a year, which is dished out to mostly unexceptional […]
