[…] 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 […]
[…] Pascal was grateful for the cynical freemasonry of veteran Belfast reporters, which had omitted to inform his London colleague that McDowell’s imagination had already reinforced the Provisional IRA with cadres of Vietcong, Czechoslovakians, Lithuanians and Communist Frenchmen.’ Dowling understood, had correctly ‘read’ some of the Information Policy operations. Other ‘Irish hands’ certainly knew of […]
[…] machine in the summer of 1966. And it was the KGB’s best buy for years. Cubans in London and Paris have helped run arms shipments to the IRA – and supplied passports to Palestinian guerrilla factions. Its seventeen diplomats are under constant surveillance. It wasn’t only in the Eye that dubious material appeared in […]
[…] penetration of a residence that was used by Noriega as a meeting site’. Another SECRET/NOFORN letter from US Army Intelligence and Security Command, signed by Brigadier General Ira C. Owens, Deputy Commander, dated February 29, 1996, describes the project: ‘In 1983 this Headquarters initiated a project named LANDBROKER. The project appears to have been […]
[…] of being a conspiracy theorist. They then take him to task for not taking at face value the role of Red Action members in support of the IRA. ‘From O’Hara’s standpoint it is preferable to invent a mythical third party to which the shooting can be attributed, rather than wrestle with the uncomfortable reality […]
[…] he had been much involved in the Ulster troubles as Northern Ireland Secretary. Then as Home Secretary, and responsibility for MI5, he had to deal with the IRA mainland bombing campaign. Two, he had a long record of seeking to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and was highly regarded in the Jewish community […]
