[…] ‘surveillance operations by soldiers in plain clothes ……initiated by Frank Kitson when he commanded the brigade in Belfast, some of them exploiting ex-members or supporters of the IRA, of which I was aware, and for which I had obtained Ministerial approval.’ (Out of Step, Memoirs of a Field Marshall, Michael Carver, Hutchinson London 1989 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] MI5 advice on what to do about Soviet agents in Britain. Another recurring theme is the alleged link between Labour MPs and groups alleged to support the IRA – the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster, Anti-Internment League, Troops Out Movement, British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Group, Irish Political Hostages Release Committee and the Campaign […]
[…] especially its clandestine forces, are almost completely missing from Bruce’s account. How important are the spooks in this story? How can we tell? In the end the IRA is still there — so they are not all powerful. Finer discrimination than that? In 1987 James Miller, sometime UDA ‘intelligence officer’, told Barry Penrose that […]
[…] and Ross McWhirter had been ‘meeting with a small group of like-minded friends concerned about the relentless spread of subversion.’ (2) After McWhirter was shot by the IRA this group formed the National Association for Freedom. But ‘to avoid the delays implicit in formal council meetings, a small group of us decided to function […]
[…] well on the way to alienating the Catholic working class in Belfast and Derry. The conduct of the troops was effectively recruiting young Catholics into the Provisional IRA, something since acknowledged by military sources. A good case can be made that, by treating the events of 1970-71 as the first stage of a revolutionary […]
[…] CARACAS 1964 1ST SEC (INFO) 1967 FCO 1969 1ST SEC (INFO) 1973 FCO 1974 SECONDED TO DEPT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY 1976 CONSUL GEN BILBAO. OPERATIONS AGAINST IRA (F) 1978 FO 1979 1ST SEC (COMM) DUBLIN 1980 HIGH COMMISSIONER TO TONGA 1983 COUNSELLOR FCO 1984 AMBASSADOR ASUNCION COLVIN, IAN B 1913, D 20.4.75 1932 […]
[…] 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 […]
