Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of the list is the caveat that ‘The U.S. 5 6 See . 7 Cedric Delves had been Commanding Officer of 22nd SAS in 1988 when three IRA terrorists were shot dead in Gibraltar (Operation Flavius). See . 8 See p. 30 of The UK Government’s ‘Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, Eighth Report 2005–2006’ […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] game. Who is James Fielding? In the 430 articles written for the Express by Fielding5 there is only one other with intelligence content: ‘MI5 lead hunt for IRA arms dumps’ in 2011 which began ‘Irish terrorists are feared to be planning an attack on mainland Britain using explosives hidden in Wales and the South-west’, […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] army briefing paper titled ‘Army Plain Clothes Patrols in Northern Ireland’. The briefing states: “Plainclothes teams, initially joint RUC/army patrols, have operated in Northern Ireland since the IRA bombing campaign in Easter 1971. Later in 1971 the teams were reformed and expanded as Military Reaction Forces (MRFs) without RUC participation. In 1972 the operations […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] region once run by Abdullahi Yusuf. One-time leader of the TFG, Yusuf was given a liver transplant on the NHS. (‘They gave me the liver of an IRA terrorist. Now I’m a real killer’, he said.) His goons were and continue to be paid by British taxpayers through the Department of International Development, which […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] the Brigadier, I considered Wallace the most valuable member of Army Information Services, who throughout the time I was there launched many very damaging stories against the IRA and other extremists.’ Here, in contrast, is Mooney in a 1992 letter to the Information Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office – IRD’s successor organisation: […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] questions: (1) What if Callaghan had called the election in ’78? (2) Or a few more Argentine bombs had hit British ships in 1982? (3) Or the IRA bomb had been an inch nearer the rafter in the hotel in Brighton? Despite all the debate that followed Thatcher’s death no one put out a […]