[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] . 14 15 Wilson’s letter with the links therein can be read at . 6 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 later a report was issued by the […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of Lord Maclean’s report following the Billy Wright Inquiry . The Joint Support Group (Northern Ireland) was the renamed replacement for the infamous ‘Force Research Unit’ that ran agents Brian Nelson (aka Agent 6137) in the UDA and Freddie Scappaticci (aka ‘Stakeknife’) in the IRA. 18 19 Details of this posting are given at .
[PDF file]: […] a third rate power, but the City of London has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira Scott, 1969 (4) Edward Heath, who succeeded Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1970, is conventionally viewed as someone who began as ‘Selsdon Man’, a prototype […]
[PDF file]: […] a low-level operative. As an Irishman with a criminal record, Bannigan had his uses, and was deniable. He began carrying a gun, provided a report on alleged IRA gun-running activities, turned up in 1935 at the office of Violet van der Elst (an anti-capital punishment campaigner). He claimed, at various times, to be involved […]
[PDF file]: […] at . 1 The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979). A review of it which appeared in the New Republic is at . 2 See for example Ira David Wood’s JFK Assassination Chronology at . 3 And we can confidently say that the JFK assassination records, ‘serials’, chronology and the information from the latest […]
[PDF file]: […] .The blurb on the back reads “It’s 2007 and, after more than thirty years service in MI5, David Nixon is retiring. The revolutionary left, the miners, the IRA have all been consigned to history and he is looking forward to quiet future of birdwatching, gardening and reading. But his former employers have one last, […]
