[PDF file]: […] Fred Holroyd with Nick Burbridge, War Without Honour (Hull: Medium, 1989) p. 134. At the time of the book’s publication there was still a slight chance of IRA action against someone like Mooney – hence the attempt to conceal his identity and the description of him as merely ‘a senior member of IRD’. 1 […]
[…] charged with perverting the course of justice for providing that false alibi. After the shootings, Hazelgrave (Demeter) officially retired but reportedly departed to Spain to infiltrate expat IRA sympathisers living there.48 Sanderson declined the offer of some extra training which would have enabled him to replace Hazelgrave as Demeter in the network. Shortly after […]
[PDF file]: […] charged with perverting the course of justice for providing that false alibi. After the shootings, Hazelgrave (Demeter) officially retired but reportedly departed to Spain to infiltrate expat IRA sympathisers living there.49 Sanderson declined the offer of some extra training which would have enabled him to replace Hazelgrave as Demeter in the network. Shortly after […]
[PDF file]: […] 1989 following collusion between the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) – was released then.9 The Loyalist killers believed Maginn to be an IRA intelligence officer because the British state had, effectively, told them so. In an attempt to counter the family’s denial that Maginn had any IRA connection, ‘the […]
[…] 1989 following collusion between the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) – was released then.9 The Loyalist killers believed Maginn to be an IRA intelligence officer because the British state had, effectively, told them so. In an attempt to counter the family’s denial that Maginn had any IRA connection, ‘the […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] Service officers later referred to the dissemination of information within the loyalist community, in such a way that it would be likely to become known by P IRA figures, as having the potential to make an impact on the republican target. However, whilst the focus of the propaganda was aimed at PIRA, it is […]
[…] – surprise (not) – it was politics. The government of the Irish Republic was co-operating with the British Army and intelligence services in the struggle with the IRA. However for domestic political reasons didn’t want this to be known. As a conduit between the Republic’s state and MI6, Holroyd knew that these cross-border dealings […]
[PDF file]: […] is Huffington Post quoting Sean O’Neill and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory (London: Harper Perennial, 2010) (p. 229). 16 or 17 Looking at this penetration of the IRA Coles writes (p. 112): ‘The anti-British IRA ended up as a quasi-proxy of the British state which played a deadly divide and rule game with the […]
[PDF file]: […] essay has no stated author but it is by Dr Stephen Dorril erstwhile co-founder of Lobster. 59 British Army and intelligence services in the struggle with the IRA. However for domestic political reasons didn’t want this to be known. As a conduit between the Republic’s state and MI6, Holroyd knew that these cross-border dealings […]
[…] bar massacre In December 1971 a bomb exploded at McGurk’s bar in Belfast, killing 15 Catholics. The response of the Army and police was to blame the IRA for an ‘own goal’ – the accidental detonation of an IRA bomb intended for somewhere else. Almost 30 years 8 See for example Not that this […]
