Collin Wallace - Abuse Cover-Up ... or was it Treason too?

Colin Wallace, once described in an infamous court case as a 'fantasist' who liked to dress up in Army uniforms, is about to tell the story of Kincora Boys Home in Northern Ireland, for years the focus of allegations about abuse of boys and a massive cover-up by British Intelligence. Wallace later worked as Information Officer for Arun District Council where he told friends of activities he had been aware of as a Military Intelligence Officer in Northern Ireland. As one colleague remarked at the time, either he was a fantasist or he was telling a very alarming story. Wallace found himself arrested and initially charged with murder of an alleged lover of his wife, a antique dealer from Brighton whose body was found dumped in the River Arun. Wallace protested his innocence, the Duke of Norfolk paid for his defence. The charges were reduced to manslaughter, and he was convicted and spent several years in prison. The trial attracted national media attention. A particular photo of him dressed in Army Officer uniform was published in many national and regional papers. A local 'stringer', Jimmy Clevitt, who undertook free-lance media work for e.g. ITV, recalled receiving that photo and then trying to trace the agency that sent it. He was out of luck. That photo has since been admitted to have been official army stock. Wallace claimed he had been set-up, the story is detailed in 'Who framed Colin Wallace' by late journalist Paul Foot (nephew of former Labour leader Michaal Foot). In this, we read that Wallace was part of an operation 'Clockwork Orange' run by MI5 operatives as a black mission. Not only, it claims, were British Intelligence aware of and implicated in enabling it to function, they knew its owners were paedophiles, they helped fund the protestant group, TARA, to which those men belonged. It is also claimed that the home had visits not only from high-ranking Ulster politicians, civil servants etc but also from the mainland UK. As the furore over who will chair the inquiry into institutional child abuse rumbles on, serious questions about the propriety, loyalty and reliability of elements of British intelligence resurface. Wallace has been compensated and pardoned since. The questions remain: + who then did kill the man Wallace allegedly killed? + who was in the know about 'Clockwork Orange'? + who were the people who visited Kincora to abuse boys there? + was there a plot to replace Harold Wilson's Labour Government in a coup in the 1970s. Our first edition carries a You Tube report on this allegation. This author himself was told that an informant's father, a senior civil servant, had told her that he had been approached at that time and asked if he would serve in such an administration. He declined. If this is true then this inquiry needs surely to be matched by a very determined effort to see whether treason was plotted against our duly elected government just 24 years ago.