[PDF file]: […] of Lord Maclean’s report following the Billy Wright Inquiry . The Joint Support Group (Northern Ireland) was the renamed replacement for the infamous ‘Force Research Unit’ that ran agents Brian Nelson (aka Agent 6137) in the UDA and Freddie Scappaticci (aka ‘Stakeknife’) in the IRA. 18 19 Details of this posting are given at .
[PDF file]: […] a low-level operative. As an Irishman with a criminal record, Bannigan had his uses, and was deniable. He began carrying a gun, provided a report on alleged IRA gun-running activities, turned up in 1935 at the office of Violet van der Elst (an anti-capital punishment campaigner). He claimed, at various times, to be involved […]
[PDF file]: […] .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, […]
[PDF file]: […] at . 1 The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979). A review of it which appeared in the New Republic is at . 2 See for example Ira David Wood’s JFK Assassination Chronology at . 3 And we can confidently say that the JFK assassination records, ‘serials’, chronology and the information from the latest […]
[…] .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, […]
[…] 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: […]
[PDF file]: […] such as Clinton, Blair, Macron and Biden. But honours can occasionally go to non-left figures such as John Major, who was prepared to countenance contacts with the IRA prior to the Good Friday Agreement – something that Thatcher would never have tolerated. 1 So far, so good. Who in their right mind wants Farage, […]
[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’ […]
[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’, […]
[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 […]
