[…] the spy-watchers have become anti-terrorists. The brochure tells us that an astonishing 70% of MI5’s resources are now devoted to terrorism. So that’s the end of the IRA then, right? Probably not; in any case, with or without the IRA, if 70% of MI5’s resources are engaged in ‘anti-terrorism’, it means expanding the number […]
[…] was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary activist by the security forces. He had identified himself with the IRA in South Armagh in the early 1970s, but in later years he was involved with the INLA. He was questioned on a variety of occasions by […]
[…] ‘Death on the Rock’, Lisburn, Ballygawley and other bombs) had led, only a month previously, to Mrs Thatcher appealing to the British media to withhold publicity from IRA sympathisers. A spokesman for the IBA said, ‘The fact that After Dark is a live programme means there is no editorial control over remarks Mr Adams […]
[…] him. A more sinister person whom Riley was close to was a man called Pat Jordan,(5) who now serving a long sentence for being a spotter for IRA bombers.(6) Jordan wrote to Searchlight from prison recently. Searchlight ignored his letter, having no interest in communicating with terrorists or their helpers, but I wonder what […]
[…] kind of hoax bomb to the local press calling for the freeing of Pearce on behalf of the ‘December 12th’ group; and at the January 1986 Anti- IRA Rally, Griffin, then NF Deputy Chair, suggested to the audience that they use the ‘traditional British methods of the brick, the boot and the fist.'(55) At […]
[…] describes Maurice Oldfield gathering his staff together in the canteen to tell them that though SIS had been running Kenneth Littlejohn in the Irish Republic against the IRA, he had not been given a licence to rob banks, as he had claimed (p. 146) Yet Captain Fred Holroyd, of the Special Military Intelligence Unit […]
Feedback Mark Taha (see Lobster 21, p. 25) wrote. ‘As someone who never joined any of the groups Larry O’Hara deals with but has attended their meetings, reads their publications, once nearly joined, and describes himself as a Libertarian Conservative Nationalist, (sic!) I read his article with interested. I noticed a few errors. On page […]
[…] North Korean ballistic missiles. The only stated source for the allegations contained therein was a ‘Western intelligence official’. On 28 May 2000 the Sunday Times article ‘ IRA investors make 300% profit out of Gaddafi cash donations’, sourced back to ‘MI5 documents seen by The Sunday Times‘, concluded by telling us that Swiss police […]
[…] reported by the British media, which paid little attention to the later news that it was in fact identified as Eugene Simmons, thought to have been an IRA informer, who disappeared on New Year’s Day 1981. (Sunday News 20th May 1984) SD The Brotherhood of Eternal Love Stuart Tendler and David May (Granada, London […]
[…] by the “subversive” left targeting universities, the civil service, and the armed forces. This would be followed by incidents of sabotage “complicated by a revival of the IRA.” ‘ According to Burns, the paper presented a scenario ‘in which a Labour government, acceding to trade union and other militant demands, radicalised its policies against […]
