[…] 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 […]
[…] (sic), disowned the Wolverhampton version. (Sunday Times 31 July 1988) The final important link was made in the August edition of Special Forces which told of an IRA ‘alliance with the London based Black Liberation Front.‘ (p22) (Special Forces is edited by a former British Army officer, Peter Harclerode.) The themes of insidious conspiracy […]
[…] UK. The authors’ second premise is linked to the above: namely, that a distinction must be drawn between the mass-based UDA that came together, in response to IRA terrorism in the 1970s, and the small but nonetheless deadly organisation of Hitler-besotted, drug-dealing fascists that is now parasitic on the community from which it was […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 also […]
[…] most startling story I have seen recently is the following. It appeared in the Sunday edition of the generally highly reliable Glasgow Herald. ‘Undercover soldiers trapped in IRA’ by Neil Mackay, Home Affairs Editor, Sunday Herald, 28 January 2001, began thus: ‘At least 16 British Army officers, who are currently working undercover as spies […]
[…] the work of the British state, jogging the arm of the legislature. A similar move had been made when the Irish Republic was considering legislation against the IRA. An hour or so before the crucial vote in the Irish parliament a couple of car-bombs went off in Dublin. Although the evidence is nothing like […]
The journal, The Round Table, originally the public face of the secret Round Table network, has reappeared after folding in the late 1970s. It’s new editorial board includes MPs Donald Anderson, Guy Barnett, Robert Jackson, Robert Rhodes-James, and Cabinet Minister Timothy Raison. Other well-known names about London’s elite circles involved are D.C. Watt and Alexander […]
It has been claimed (in Sunday News 20th Feb. and The Phoenix, 19th Feb.1983) that at the heart of the disclosures over the Kincora scandal is an internal row in the intelligence services. A dissident faction is thought to have formed in the Secret Service. The scuffles over revelations concerning Kincora started with the writing […]
