[…] loyalist killer gangs, the FRU also provided some of their arms, apparently believing that this was the only way to redress the balance of forces after the IRA received arms from Libya. (p. 191) The behaviour of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair and his gang goes some of the way to illustrate the claims of […]
[…] – if ‘good’ is the right word. In June’s Searchlight this paragraph appeared; ‘Seasoned political observers in Northern Ireland say that the UDA and parts of the IRA are jointly controlling some of their criminal activities and use the same drug traffickers.’ This is classic disinformation (see also ‘IRA Godfathers’ et al, ad nauseam) […]
[…] their wonderful new 250 million building on the Thames. MI5 are on the bureaucratic offensive and were given ‘overall responsibility for agent-running and analysis worldwide against the IRA’ in Spring 1991 (p. 201); and at the beginning of 1992 Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke received a recommendation that MI5 ‘take control of all counter-terrorist operations […]
[…] had attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting. Off target Back in the 1970s the Army’s psy-ops unit in Northern Ireland once put out a story claiming that the IRA had hired American Vietnam vets to do its killing for them. (‘Paddy’ couldn’t really shoot straight was the subtext.) A new variation on this appeared – […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] that ‘the dissent generated by Catholic and Protestant differences is only a small factor’, reveals that ‘Sinn Fein does not know or govern the actions of the IRA’ and describes the Troops Out Movement as representative of the opinions of ‘English civilians’ (source: a poll carried out by the Troops Out Movement). More trivially, […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] showed 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 […]
