Collusion Allegations
He alleged a policy of assassinations and collusion between British Army Intelligence and individuals active within Loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. Holroyd was one of a number of former members of British forces who either exposed or admitted to such activity, the most prominent being Colin Wallace and John Weir (see Dublin and Monaghan bombings).
Fred Holroyd has claimed that during the mid 1970s the Special Air Service SAS used the cover name, "4 Field Survey Troop, Royal Engineers" (see 14 Intelligence Company) during operations. This modus operandi was introduced in 1973 and abandoned in 1975. Fred Holroyd claimed this was an SAS unit under cover at the Royal Engineers' base at Castledillon, County Armagh, which he visited (see 14 Intelligence Company). Holroyd claims to have worked with the members of this unit and that members were told that it was a NITAT (Northern Ireland Training and Tactics Team), whose personnel were "former, serving or recently trained" SAS soldiers, with the commanders being infantry officers attached to the SAS. One of these was Captain Robert Nairac, described as, "seconded to 14th Intelligence", otherwise known as 14 Intelligence Company" or '14 Int'.
He also added to allegations that a cabal of right wing British intelligence operatives from MI5 & MI6 along with figures from the British establishment had been involved in a plot to destabilise/overthrow Prime Minister Harold Wilson through a secret organization known as "Group 13". The former intelligence officer Peter Wright, author of 'Spycatcher', was said to have been part of this group. Holroyd's allegations surfaced again in a New Statesman article written by Duncan Campbell in 1984. Holroyd's allegations helped form the basis for the 1990 Ken Loach film, Hidden Agenda.
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