[PDF file]: […] and the state. Secondly, the end of the CPGB in Britain would have been bad news to MI5 in the Whitehall budget struggle. Nowadays they’ve got the IRA to frighten the politicians with. In the late 50s, if the CPGB had folded, who would they have had as a credible threat? MI5 needed the […]
[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 […]
[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]: […] of the 1970s: essentially Brigadier Frank Kitson’s attempt to use the methods developed in Kenya and Malaya – pseudogangs, assassination and false flag attacks – against the IRA. What comes through most strikingly in this account are: the sheer incompetence of it all – again and again these units shot the wrong people and […]
[PDF file]: […] William McGrath. A prominent Orangeman and right-wing Protestant zealot, he exerted a powerful influence on the development of Loyalist politics in the 197Os and 198Os as the IRA campaign of violence escalated. McGrath was the leader of a loyalist paramilitary organization called Tara and had two expressed hatreds: the Roman Catholic Church and Communism. […]
[PDF file]: […] Collon in the Irish Republic, run by Nikolai Couriss from 1932 to 1977. Couriss was also a close friend of Sean MacBride, Chief of Staff of the IRA. Dame Elizabeth Hill, professor of Slavonic studies and formerly director of the Joint Services School for Linguists, would send her students to him. The elderly survivors […]
[PDF file]: […] was the 1973 Scotland Yard/Special Branch secret solicitors blacklist. And finally when Essex Police mounted Operation Century (1996), using undercover Special Branch to role-play as life threatening IRA terrorists, there was no police accountability. Those on the receiving end of this spot of Special Branch adventurism complained but Essex Police got the Police Complaints […]
[PDF file]: […] of MI5 is keen to steal some thunder from MI6, it is somewhat depressing to see that the same attitudes that often hampered the conflict with the IRA in Northern Ireland are still alive and kicking in the ubiquitous ‘war on terror’.3 *new* Dominic Cummings’ particular brand of bullshit On 17 March, Dominic Cummings […]
