[PDF file]: […] members of the Communist Party who were de facto agents of the USSR. Another of MI5’s themes of the time – the Soviet Union behind the Provisional IRA – was the subject of another Stewart-Smith pamphlet published in 1976, written by John Biggs-Davison, at the time the Tory frontbench spokesman on Northern Ireland.21 Now […]
[PDF file]: […] rise of Thatcher within the Conservative Party, died as a result of the blast.1 Less than six months later, on 27 August 1979, co-ordinated attacks by the IRA killed Lord Mountbatten (a relative of both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh) in a fishing boat off the coast of the Irish Republic and […]
[PDF file]: […] aided a quantitative explosion of disinformation? It might be a case of both, although Rid’s chapters devoted to the Russian (in theory non-governmental) Internet Research Agency ( IRA) suggest that efforts by Russians to influence the US elections of 2016 were largely unsuccessful because of a lack of quality, as well as quantity. The […]
[PDF file]: […] Fred Holroyd with Nick Burbridge, War Without Honour (Hull: Medium, 1989) p. 134. At the time of the book’s publication there was still a slight chance of IRA action against someone like Mooney – hence the attempt to conceal his identity and the description of him as merely ‘a senior member of IRD’. 1 […]
[PDF file]: […] charged with perverting the course of justice for providing that false alibi. After the shootings, Hazelgrave (Demeter) officially retired but reportedly departed to Spain to infiltrate expat IRA sympathisers living there.49 Sanderson declined the offer of some extra training which would have enabled him to replace Hazelgrave as Demeter in the network. Shortly after […]
[…] charged with perverting the course of justice for providing that false alibi. After the shootings, Hazelgrave (Demeter) officially retired but reportedly departed to Spain to infiltrate expat IRA sympathisers living there.48 Sanderson declined the offer of some extra training which would have enabled him to replace Hazelgrave as Demeter in the network. Shortly after […]
[PDF file]: […] Belfast.17 Bonnett mentioned his days in Kenya to me on a dark, wet winter night in Belfast. We’d been out to the suburbs, talking to the Provisional IRA. One of them asked me for a lift back into the city. He was silent in the back seat of the Hillman Avenger as we cleared […]
[…] – surprise (not) – it was politics. The government of the Irish Republic was co-operating with the British Army and intelligence services in the struggle with the IRA. However for domestic political reasons didn’t want this to be known. As a conduit between the Republic’s state and MI6, Holroyd knew that these cross-border dealings […]
[PDF file]: […] and the state. Secondly, the end of the CPGB in Britain would have been bad news to MI5 in the Whitehall budget struggle. Nowadays they’ve got the IRA to frighten the politicians with. In the late 50s, if the CPGB had folded, who would they have had as a credible threat? MI5 needed the […]
[…] is Huffington Post quoting Sean O’Neill and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory (London: Harper Perennial, 2010) (p. 229). 16 or 17 Looking at this penetration of the IRA Coles writes (p. 112): ‘The anti-British IRA ended up as a quasi-proxy of the British state which played a deadly divide and rule game with the […]
