Who Framed Colin Wallace?

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It was very much a matter that, OK the story was being contained at the moment because he was in jail, but that in a few years' time he would be back out again and could be expected to start making the allegations again and then that would be a serious problem. Despite the obvious and unexplained weaknesses of the Terry Inquiry, Prior told Parliament that a 1921 Act Inquiry was not justified. As well as carrying out overt information work for the British Army, Wallace was also working for 14 Intelligence Company as a member of the ultra-secret Army Psychological Operations unit (Information Policy), covertly attempting to undermine, disrupt and control paramilitary groups. Some, like William McGrath, who was later jailed for child abuse at Kincora, were in an Orange lodge known as Ireland's Heritage.

On 19 May 1976, The Daily Telegraph published a story under the headline: "Campaign in US to smear MPs". I have tried repeatedly in the House to get an adjournment on the conviction and will continue to do so.Wallace has been telling the truth in this particular, there may well be validity in his general arguments and points.

On appeal, evidence was introduced to suggest that injuries were not consistent with a karate blow, and that evidence of Wallace’s background (in the SAS) that appeared in the newspapers might have influenced the jury.Cavendish, a close friend over many years of Sir Maurice Oldfield, former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, says that Wallace's assertion that Oldfield was the target of a black propaganda campaign by MI5, "match closely details which were told to me privately by Maurice. This is the last big opportunity to put Kincora and the other children's home allegations to rest for good.