Who Framed Colin Wallace?

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This view was similarly expressed by Alex Carlile QC (now Lord Carlile),[4] who later speculated that this may have been the motive not just for the alleged frameup, but also for murder. Despite repeated denials in more recent years by the heads of MI5, it is now clear that members of MI5 did make attempts to undermine Harold Wilson and his Government in the 1970s.

He also pointed out that the man was "a known homosexual" who blackmailed people into homosexual activities which he himself initiated. Journalists from foreign news organisations would be given briefings and shown forged documents, which purported to show that politicians were speaking at Irish republican rallies or were receiving secret deposits in Swiss bank accounts. Holroyd is also quoted as saying that, while being trained for his Northern Ireland duties, he was told that the Tara organisation was in effect controlled by British intelligence, and was not a real security threat, implying that William McGrath, a former house-father at Kincora and leader of Tara, had come under intelligence control before 1973.

A government inquiry set up by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and undertaken by Sir David Calcutt QC confirmed that Wallace had, indeed, been working for the Intelligence Services during the 1970s and that his enforced resignation from the Ministry of Defence had been made on the basis of a false job description designed to conceal his covert role in psychological warfare. A few weeks later he was removed from his job on the grounds that his life "was in danger", and posted to an Army HQ in England. Colin was responsible for BAU operations EMEA-wide covering London branch and the insourced European branches and Amsterdam subsidiary along with its branch network. The only thing I missed were people really, friends and family…mainly because I knew they would be worrying about me back home. However, official records later showed that he had been instructed by his superiors to draw the attention of the press to McGrath's activities.

Wallace joined the Ministry of Defence on 15 March 1968 as an assistant information officer for the British Army at its Northern Ireland headquarters at Thiepval Barracks in Lisburn.People named in Colin Wallace's notes as having been targeted in this manner included Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Merlyn Rees, Cyril Smith, Jeremy Thorpe, Tony Benn and Ian Paisley. In person, Wallace comes across as intelligent, self-assured, and possessed of a quiet yet unwavering moral conviction. Colin Wallace (born 2 October 1953 in Auckland) is a first-class cricketer who played three games for Auckland in the 1978–79 season. In 1974 Wallace and his colleagues received documents from the RUC showing that although some officers were aware that McGrath was a child abuser, they were obstructed from pursuing him. In a letter dated 11 February 1991, the Ministry of Defence said that Wallace's job description contained "sensitive information relating to the security and intelligence matters" and that the provision of such papers, even under the conditions relating to the Committee's access to classified information, "would be inconsistent with the conventions".