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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the point that the cost of this single incident equalled the cost of all property damage caused by terrorists in NI over the previous 30 years. The IRA now realised that with just a couple more bombs they could bankrupt Pool Re and in effect bankrupt the government. So also did the government, and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Macmillan, Australia, 1988). Dick Noone: MI6 commanding the special operations base in Sabah, Borneo, 1970-71, died 1973. (Ibid.). Peter Langan: Used as an MI5 agent against the IRA in 60s (Langan, A Life With Food, Bloomsbury, London, 1990). Mike Jeffrey: Manager of Jimi Hendrix, MI5 counter-intelligence agent 50s. (Victor Sampson, Hendrix, Proteus, London, pp. […]
[…] John Baird visited England at a house on the Old Hollywood Road in Belfast. The house was a Brit-intelligence base used as a pickup point for Provisional IRA leaders during the peace talks in 1976 which led to the setting up of Republican ‘Incident Centres’ paid for by the British. England was then C(Int)NI […]
[…] of Algiers, to get a feel for what we may be in for. From threat to movement? Some are now saying the unsayable: that, as with the IRA, talks will eventually be required with Al-Qaeda. That would be a sign of failure. My view is that talks should long ago have started with the […]
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
‘I know nothing about it. I don’t want to say I didn’t at the time, but today I have no knowledge of it.’ Former US Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara on the attack on USS Liberty. ‘As with the assassination of John F. Kennedy four years earlier, the official version [of the attack on … Read more
Organisation, History and Politics In the early years of the Thatcher decade, the radical or ‘new’ right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an ‘anti wet’ alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist and libertarian/radical […]
