[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]: […] .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, […]
[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]: […] to Kincora with anal sex. The McGrath story involves much detail about the murky politics and paramilitary activity of Protestant fringe groups during the conflict with the IRA. Having had contact with MI6 in the sixties, McGrath was recruited by MI5 – precisely when, or for what, is unclear – providing him with cover […]
[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 […]
[…] Kincora with unlubricated anal sex. The McGrath story involves much detail about the murky politics and paramilitary activity of Protestant fringe groups during the conflict with the IRA. Having had contact with MI6 in the sixties, McGrath was recruited by MI5 – precisely when, or for what, is unclear – 1 1 providing him […]
[…] Kincora with unlubricated anal sex. The McGrath story involves much detail about the murky politics and paramilitary activity of Protestant fringe groups during the conflict with the IRA. Having had contact with MI6 in the sixties, McGrath was recruited by MI5 – precisely when, or for what, is unclear – providing him with cover […]
[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 […]
[…] Third comes getting more members. Fourth, internal turf battles. And then finally, human rights, genuine human rights concerns.’45 This is reminiscent of Colin Wallace saying that the IRA was fourth on the British Army’s enemies list in Northern Ireland; and the sentiment is probably familiar to anyone who has been a member of a […]
