[…] Embassy in London in 1994 (information that would have helped the defence of the two convicted for this, see below); and that MI5 could have prevented the IRA bombing in Bishopsgate in 1993. He was found guilty and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. For large archive of articles on Shayler see www.guardian. co.uk/shayler; see […]
[…] innocent to inspire fear for political ends.” Which just about covers the whole of American foreign policy since the late 19th century, but only just includes the IRA, for example. (To his credit, the editor does not mention the IRA in his essay.) Yet elsewhere Paul Johnson does include the IRA (and, incidentally, offers […]
[…] a student union bureaucrat in a right-wing Communist Party. I know most of these Irish writers. With principle and integrity, all have at some time rightly denounced IRA terrorism and the use of Republican rhetoric by the gangster capitalists of Fianna Fail. In particular, they have shown how the relentless reference to a ‘United […]
[…] A levels in fucking whacking fucking people…. Your fucking ceasefire’s going….I’ll be in touch with you fucking soon….You watch your fucking car. On 9 February 1996 the IRA ended its cease fire by bombing Canary Wharf. In the warning period minutes before the explosion, Mickey Steele’s Essex phone rang. It was RUC Special Branch […]
[…] cohesive, province-wide, secret organisation, the Ulster Central Coordinating Committee. This worked with an ‘Inner Force’ which had formed inside the RUC. The Inner Force supplied intelligence on IRA members and sympathisers to ‘the Committee’, who directed assassins to chosen targets with protection provided by the ‘Inner Force’. This book is about that documentary, its […]
[…] the defector denies the story. IRD is dead! Long live IRD! Liam Clarke and Barry Penrose (see review of The Committee, below) co-authored the story ‘Syria paid IRA to kill Mountbatten’ in the Sunday Times 17 May 1998, in which they reported that they had been told by former IRA member Sean O’Callaghan that […]
[…] do not document any contact between the Weathermen and the Brotherhood, let alone Stark. As it stands the assertion is worthless, in other words. Friends, Frendz, the IRA, Howard Marks and… In Britain, according to Black, Stark’s crucial contact was with ‘the ex-Situationist Friends magazine’: a nexus of psychedelia, political radicalism and armed struggle. […]
[…] quotes Steele as saying to the Provo leaders at the talks: ‘I hope you’re not going to start your bloody stupid campaign of violence again. If the IRA really wanted a united Ireland, it was wasting its time shooting British soldiers and bombing Northern Ireland into an industrial and social slum,’ he said. ‘It […]
[…] Tory Prime Minister, recruited Howard Marks, his old chum from Balliol College, Oxford, to spy on Jim McCann, a hash smuggler whom MI6 believed was a Provisional IRA contact in Amsterdam. Macmillan gave no indication that he knew Marks was already doing business with McCann, or that he knew Marks’ name and address had […]
[…] Blake Publishing, London 1995, £15.99 The pseudonymous author claims to have been a member of a clandestine 4-man SAS squad which assassinated a couple of dozen alleged IRA members in the 1971-3 period in Northern Ireland. The author’s taped and transcribed memories are intercut with sections from an uncredited ghost writer – apparently Nick […]
