INDEX	Saturday September 25, 2021
Colin Wallace: The man who said no to Clockwork Orange
Colin Wallace was a Northern Ireland based MI5 officer, whose job title was something like press officer. I may have come across him when I spent a few days with the troops in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, but I don't think I did. He comes across as very much like Rimmer from Red Dwarf, but this may be a deception. He admits he knew about the Kincora Boys home, where systematic homosexual rape was practised over many years and claims to have played a pivotal role in Clockwork Orange, MI5's operation to undermine the Wilson Government. Perhaps he did. Wallace says his troubles started when he told his MI5 operator that he was uncomfortable about Clockwork Orange. From then on he lost his career and was framed for various increasingly serious offences, eventually a murder. Although Wallace seems to have had a very late conversion and gone over to the side of the angels, he also admits to retailing a lot of the Clockwork Orange tittle tattle to Airey Neave, an extreme right wing Tory MP, after he was booted out of MI5. George Galloway, who worked for Private Eye at the time when it first published some of these stories, interviews a film maker who says he is going to make his documentary about Wallace avaialable for free on Youtube at the end of this month. The late Paul Foot wrote a book about the case titled Who Framed Colin Wallace, (ISBN 0-333-47008-7). If you read the book it is clear that Paul Foot was in little doubt about who did the framing. Jonathan Brind
Saturday September 25, 2021		INDEX