See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] Service officers later referred to the dissemination of information within the loyalist community, in such a way that it would be likely to become known by P IRA figures, as having the potential to make an impact on the republican target. However, whilst the focus of the propaganda was aimed at PIRA, it is […]
[…] – 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[…] of the 1970s: essentially Brigadier Frank Kitson’s attempt to use the methods developed in Kenya and Malaya – pseudogangs, assassination and false flag attacks – against the IRA. What comes through most 45 Straw’s comment was exhumed by Peter Oborne in a splendid attack on the ‘secret justice’ proposals. See 46 ‘Bog-wogs’ was the […]
[PDF file]: […] Third comes getting more members. Fourth, internal turf battles. And then finally, human rights, genuine human rights concerns.’45 This is reminiscent of Colin Wallace saying that the IRA was fourth on the British Army’s enemies list in Northern Ireland; and the sentiment is probably familiar to anyone who has been a member of a […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Soviet global conspiracy: Ireland was ‘the next Cuba’. But after the re-election of the Wilson government in 1974 they also began trying to show support for the IRA from a Labour Party influenced by the CPGB.197 Although we know quite a lot about IRD’s structure, we have evidence of some of its techniques, and […]
[PDF file]: […] have long been claims that elements in the Army and British government were behind a widespread propaganda campaign throughout the early 1970s mostly aimed at undermining the IRA.’ Nearly 30 years after this story was first discussed, when we know a great deal about the operations and personnel, the BBC is still talking about […]
