[…] MI5 advice on what to do about Soviet agents in Britain. Another recurring theme is the alleged link between Labour MPs and groups alleged to support the IRA – the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster, Anti-Internment League, Troops Out Movement, British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Group, Irish Political Hostages Release Committee and the Campaign […]
[…] Richard Vaughan, ‘MI5 asks architects to keep plans secret’, The Architects’ Journal, 227 (23), 12 June 2008, p. 5. Adrian Fulford, ‘How have things changed since the IRA trials?’, Medicine, Science and the Law, 48 (3), July 2008, pp. 185-188. The same issue also includes an article on terrorism from a forensic scientist’s point […]
[…] and Ross McWhirter had been ‘meeting with a small group of like-minded friends concerned about the relentless spread of subversion.’ (2) After McWhirter was shot by the IRA this group formed the National Association for Freedom. But ‘to avoid the delays implicit in formal council meetings, a small group of us decided to function […]
[…] CARACAS 1964 1ST SEC (INFO) 1967 FCO 1969 1ST SEC (INFO) 1973 FCO 1974 SECONDED TO DEPT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY 1976 CONSUL GEN BILBAO. OPERATIONS AGAINST IRA (F) 1978 FO 1979 1ST SEC (COMM) DUBLIN 1980 HIGH COMMISSIONER TO TONGA 1983 COUNSELLOR FCO 1984 AMBASSADOR ASUNCION COLVIN, IAN B 1913, D 20.4.75 1932 […]
[…] to be the UK contact point for MI5. What a curious coincidence… Apologies to Ms Cramen Proetta, the woman who witnessed the SAS shooting of the 3 IRA members on Gibraltar, for not including her in my list of “enemies of the state’ who had been persecuted by the British state. The persecution was […]
This is the text of a paper read by Jonathan Bloch at a meeting of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade in London in June 1985. The purpose of this paper is to examine selected aspects of British involvement in the training of foreign police personnel both here and abroad. Not much research has been […]
[…] that a fertilizer bomb of the kind made by McVeigh could not do the damage attributed to it. (6) (C.f. the much smaller damage done by the IRA bombs in the Ciy of London.) And if these surmises are true it means what? Someone was running McVeigh – or had a line into him […]
[…] 1ST SEC FREETOWN 1964 NICOSIA 1964 CRO LATER FO 1969 HEAD OF CHANCERY PEKING 1971 LUXEMBOURG 1973 COUNSELLOR N IRELAND (NI) OFFICE. INVOLVED IN TRUCE WITH PROV IRA. CHIEF OF STATION 1976 COUNSELLOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (FCO) 1978 HEAD OVERSEAS INFO DEPT (OID) 1979 GOVERNORS STAFF SALISBURY 1981 HIGH COMMISSIONER MAURITIUS ALLASON, LT […]
[…] describes Maurice Oldfield gathering his staff together in the canteen to tell them that though SIS had been running Kenneth Littlejohn in the Irish Republic against the IRA, he had not been given a licence to rob banks, as he had claimed (p. 146) Yet Captain Fred Holroyd, of the Special Military Intelligence Unit […]
[…] kind of hoax bomb to the local press calling for the freeing of Pearce on behalf of the ‘December 12th’ group; and at the January 1986 Anti- IRA Rally, Griffin, then NF Deputy Chair, suggested to the audience that they use the ‘traditional British methods of the brick, the boot and the fist.'(55) At […]
