Programme 10: 16th September 2007

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Programme 10: Sunday 16th September
Colin Wallace, exposed British Army dirty tricks in Northern Ireland

From Co. Antrim, Wallace joined the British Army in Lisburn as a public relations officer.  He quickly impressed and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by the age of 31.  He co-operated with shadowy campaigns run by the intelligence services, but drew the line at a campaign to undermine and discredit the new Labour Government in Downing Street; and at efforts to cover up child sex abuse at a boys' home run by a valued informer.

When he refused to continue with these activities, he was fired from his job, and found himself blacklisted.  He resettled in England but, when a friend there died in suspicious circumstances, he was convicted of manslaughter and spent six years in prison.  He claims that he was framed for the murder in order to silence him.  Years later, his conviction was quashed; the British Government acknowledged that he had been wrongly removed from his job and admitted that the infamous 'Clockwork Orange' project, which they had previously denied, did in fact exist.