Later, the two reporters interviewed Hanley at his home and asked him if there had been talk of a coup to overthrow the Wilson Government in the mid 1970s. Stevens had presided over the Stevens Inquiries into collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries in the murders of Irish nationalists.

On 19 July 1976, the New Statesman published a story by Robert Fisk of The Times and based on Wallace's allegations about the sexual allegations surrounding William McGrath, one of the Kincora staff. Having spent many years reading dense textbooks at university, my ability to tolerate non-fiction books has vastly diminished. Clive Ponting, a former senior official in the Ministry of Defence, told the Sunday Times that he had attended meetings with MI5 officers at the MOD to discuss how to prevent Wallace and Holroyd from making allegations about 'dirty tricks' in Northern Ireland.When speaking of matters directly within his own experience, the Inquiry believes him to be a highly knowledgeable witness.

He then referred to a number of people as having been interviewed by British Army people for British military intelligence about McGrath and Kincora.He became an established information officer from 14 December 1971, and a senior information officer with effect from 27 September 1974, having first held this latter post on temporary promotion from 1972.

I sincerely believe that Colin Wallace was 'fitted up' by corrupt members of the Establishment embarrassed by the events described in the early part of your book.I thought I knew a lot about the Psychology of climbing Everest after I wrote my University dissertation on it…but I was pushed close to the limit, it took so much metal perseverance to get up there and even more to get back down again. We didn't specify allegations of assault in the home because the Army felt that it couldn't be seen to be briefing on a police matter. Some of them were agents for all four of those particular organisations (Army, MI5, MI6 and Special Branch), fighting against each other, doing things and making a large sum of money, which was all against the public interest and creating mayhem in Northern Ireland.