Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] – 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 […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[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 […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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. […]

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