[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Communist Party who were de facto agents of the USSR. 7 Another of MI5’s themes of the time – the Soviet Union behind the Provisional IRA – was the subject of another Stewart-Smith pamphlet published in 1976, written by John Biggs-Davison, at the time the Tory frontbench spokesman on Northern Ireland. (22) […]
[PDF file]: […] killing, both on and off duty, of over 300 of their colleagues. One of the most controversial cases Simpson investigated was the dramatic kidnapping by the Provisional IRA of 45 year-old Thomas Niedermayer, a German national, who was the Managing Director of the Grundig electronics factory on the outskirts of Belfast. He had been […]
[PDF file]: […] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]
[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]
[…] little dissatisfied. You could well describe Peter Taylor as ‘the spooks favourite conduit’. It is true that he has, occasionally, given unbiased coverage to members of the IRA and other such organisations. However, when it comes to the actions of the British state, he always leans toward the state’s version of events. (I give […]
[PDF file]: […] Nevertheless, in the autumn of 1970 he was appointed to command the 39th Brigade in Northern Ireland. Here he presided over the British campaign against the Provisional IRA in Belfast, which, in every way possible, made the situation worse. How revealing is his account? Let us look at one quite well-known episode: Bloody Sunday. […]
[…] Nevertheless, in the autumn of 1970 he was appointed to command the 39th Brigade in Northern Ireland. Here he presided over the British campaign against the Provisional IRA in Belfast, a campaign that in every way possible made the situation worse. How revealing is his account? Let us look at one quite well-known episode: […]
[PDF file]: […] rise of Thatcher within the Conservative Party, died as a result of the blast.1 Less than six months later, on 27 August 1979, co-ordinated attacks by the IRA killed Lord Mountbatten (a relative of both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh) in a fishing boat off the coast of the Irish Republic and […]
