Who Framed Colin Wallace?

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Later that same day, in the House of Commons, the Government did make a very limited admission that Ministers had "inadvertently misled" Parliament over Wallace's role and confirmed that he had been involved in disinformation activities on behalf of the security forces and that he had been authorised to supply, on occasions, classified information to journalists.

People named by Wallace as having been targeted in this manner include Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Merlyn Rees, Tony Benn and Ian Paisley. The only thing I missed were people really, friends and family…mainly because I knew they would be worrying about me back home. A former cadet officer in the Irish Guards, he was commissioned in 1972 into the Ulster Defence Regiment, part of the Regular Army, and was immediately granted the rank of captain.

The conviction was quashed in 1996 in the light of new forensic and other evidence, ten years after he was released from prison. Wallace also attempted to draw public attention to the Kincora Boys' Home sexual abuse scandal several years before the Royal Ulster Constabulary finally intervened. Potential investors should seek specialist independent tax and financial advice before investing in any alternative investment. essentials that I really appreciated were my Ipod and my Kindle, when you plug in to your Ipod and read a good book it makes it easy to forget you’re freezing in a tent halfway up Everest…. One of Wallace's close friends in the Army described him as follows: "I played golf with the General.

During the appeal hearing, a Home Office pathologist, Dr Ian West, admitted that some of the evidence that he had used at Wallace's trial had been supplied to him by "an American security source". The first mountain I ever climbed was Mount Kenya on a school trip when I was 17, from that moment of standing on top of that beautiful mountain I was hooked. He brings a wealth of talent and experience transferable into any commercial role, proven by the fact he started a completely new role in a new industry much later in his professional journey, following a highly successful career in the music industry. The woman told him that she was dealing with a Kincora resident who had been in trouble with the police. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.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.

In 1981 three senior care staff at the home were jailed for abusing 11 boys but allegations of a wider ring with links in the political establishment have persisted. He also queried why the investigations had failed to interview key, identified witnesses from the Intelligence Services. We were together on Ama Dablam as well, we had a pretty horrendous expedition, but I saw just how incredible he and the rest of our Sherpa team were, so much respect for those boys.Colin Wallace, a psychological warfare expert who served in the Army during the Troubles, says he and a number of other retired officers would be prepared to give evidence. Calcutt also found that members of MI5 had manipulated the disciplinary proceedings taken against Wallace. Some, like William McGrath, who was later jailed for child abuse at Kincora, were in an Orange lodge known as Ireland's Heritage.