[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] in places. The bugging led to the discovery that Britain’s MI5 had recruited a group (numbers unspecified) of Irish Special Branch personnel, apparently to get information on IRA activities in Dublin. One of the MI5 recruiters was a ‘Michael’ who ‘posed as a civil servant dealing with security matters at Stormont Castle’. above led […]
[…] was working for MI5 and/or MI6 – something I had assumed but had never tried to check. There is a chapter on the British Army’s torture of IRA suspects in 1971. Streatfield shows us that these programmes involved the UK as junior partners to the US; and that by 1970 most of the experiments […]
