[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] about to be announced. The authorities (in fact, the ‘leakers’) were also keen to spin that the terrorists (bar the use of video) were analogous to the IRA (again, in order to get the Iraq insurgents to be seen as enemies of the people on terms the people would understand). The real conclusion, which […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] himself, before being made a British citizen soon after New Labour was elected in 1997. Kochan ranges widely from the Bank of New York scandals to the IRA in courageously pursuing his theme that laundered money corrupts the wider economy. He concludes: “Money laundering by criminal or terrorist groups has far-reaching implications for the […]
[…] conviction as before. The ‘rogue elephant’ theme, recycled by Mooney, was launched, unnoticed, by Chapman Pincher in 1978, in Inside Story. ‘In the psychological war against the IRA, the Army ran an ‘Information Policy’ operation in which false stories were foisted on newspapers to such an extent that an official was forced to leave […]
[…] inclined to put themselves forward. In addition, the use of the word risks linkage with other spook employers: a courageous former British agent who worked inside the IRA has warned that he was ‘dumped’ by the security forces. ‘When you are no longer of use, they leave you high and dry with no regard […]
[…] INFANTRY BRIGADE -18 ‘WORK FOR ADMIRALTY’ -20- ‘FOREIGN OFFICE NEWS DEPARTMENT’ 26-40 PRESS ATTACHE PARIS, FRIEND OF DUKE OF WINDSOR MOORES, MICHAEL MI6 (N) 1980s OPERATIONS AGAINST IRA IN WEST GERMANY MORGAN, COL. E.P. MI5 (W) 39-45 SECURITY MOSS, PADDY GCHQ 1970s SENIOR POST GCHQ MOSS, DAVID JOSEPH B. 6/11/38 1956 CIVIL SERVICE COLLEGE […]
[…] on top, replacing the Soviet ‘threat’ with the terrorist ‘threat’, and actually expanding its personnel, while MI6 and GCHQ are tightening (pretty generous) belts. Let’s hope the IRA, the animal rights movement, Green Anarchist and the anti-roads campaigners are suitably flattered to be the equivalent of the espionage services of a super-power! For all […]
[…] to happen because there is virtually no political control over the security organisations: when they fuck-up nothing happens to them. MI5 botch a surveillance of an IRA operation and £300 million’s worth of damage is done to the City of London; and nothing happens, no heads roll. MI6 gets involved in trying to […]
