[…] Wallace/psy-ops One of the lines Colin Wallace at Information Policy tried to get the media to run about Northern Ireland in 1973/4 was the one about the IRA hiring US Army veterans to do their fighting for them. One such story was planted on Chapman Pincher who ran it in the Express. See Lobster […]
[…] disk and maybe it will be useful one day; and I wonder who compiled it and why. But before these MI6 lists, Cryptome published a list of IRA members which included Clare Short MP. Which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, does it? (1) Even if I knew the list was genuine – though how would […]
[…] loyalist killer gangs, the FRU also provided some of their arms, apparently believing that this was the only way to redress the balance of forces after the IRA received arms from Libya. (p. 191) The behaviour of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair and his gang goes some of the way to illustrate the claims of […]
[…] – if ‘good’ is the right word. In June’s Searchlight this paragraph appeared; ‘Seasoned political observers in Northern Ireland say that the UDA and parts of the IRA are jointly controlling some of their criminal activities and use the same drug traffickers.’ This is classic disinformation (see also ‘IRA Godfathers’ et al, ad nauseam) […]
[…] of workers’ control in the United Kingdom.’ It also pointed out, that ‘On Ireland the Party supports the official Sinn Fein (the Communist dominated wing of the IRA) and the Peoples’ Democracy, through which Bernadatte Devlin came to prominence, as organisations whose objectives are the establishment of a Socialist Workers’ Republic.’ All this was […]
[…] get political control over the propaganda apparatus, which was then being directed as much at Northern Ireland Secretary of State Merlyn Rees as it was against the IRA. Bennett makes it sound as though Cudlipp was in charge of black propaganda. Bennett then tells us: ‘The British establishment obviously decided, according to conspiracy theorists […]
[…] (“hare-brained”, according to Leng), but tells us that “today, in Wallace’s mind, ‘Clockwork Orange’ has become a more sinister Mark Two which … went beyond destabilising the IRA; it was aimed at mainland Labour politicians – which just happens to dovetail with similar allegations, raised in Parliament from an entirely independent source, namely Peter […]
[…] him was his second wife, Dame Ruth Railton, described by Edwards as ‘…jealous, merciless, fiercely manipulative and an inveterate liar and fantasist.’ A subsequent fantasy of the duo was a joint belief that they could solve the problems besetting Northern Ireland, at one point simultaneously courting Ian Paisley and IRA Army Council member David O’Connell.
[…] (See, for example, Sunday Times 28 January 1973) At various times the UCA were said to have been in discussions with the Peoples’ Democracy group, the Official IRA, the British and Irish Communist Group and the Communist Party. The truth of these reports is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in […]
[…] explanation for something awkward. In The Daily Telegraph of 3 April, for example, Philip Johnston wrote: ‘A covert Army unit colluded with loyalist paramilitaries to target suspected IRA terrorists for assassination, according to an official police report to be published later this month. The report by Sir John Stevens, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, […]
