[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] that ‘the dissent generated by Catholic and Protestant differences is only a small factor’, reveals that ‘Sinn Fein does not know or govern the actions of the IRA’ and describes the Troops Out Movement as representative of the opinions of ‘English civilians’ (source: a poll carried out by the Troops Out Movement). More trivially, […]
This is the text of a paper read by Jonathan Bloch at a meeting of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade in London in June 1985. The purpose of this paper is to examine selected aspects of British involvement in the training of foreign police personnel both here and abroad. Not much research has been […]
[…] Richard Vaughan, ‘MI5 asks architects to keep plans secret’, The Architects’ Journal, 227 (23), 12 June 2008, p. 5. Adrian Fulford, ‘How have things changed since the IRA trials?’, Medicine, Science and the Law, 48 (3), July 2008, pp. 185-188. The same issue also includes an article on terrorism from a forensic scientist’s point […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
