Category: Crinnion, Patrick

• Bring back The Phoenix Part II: 50+ espionage and dirty trick stories from 2024.

  

  Click on the link below to read a selection of stories from The Phoenix 2024, including: Brig. Frank Kitson’s dirty war; what really happened on Bloody Sunday (not the nonsense in the Savile Inquiry report); Patrick Crinnion, MI6’s spy inside the Gardaí; the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; Barrie Gane of MI6; Freddie Scappaticci; the Kincora…

  Covert History Ireland

  11 September 2026

  British Army, Crinnion, Patrick, FitzGerald, Garret, Haughey, Charles, Historic magazines and pamphlets, IRA, Irish Times, Kincora, Kitson, Brigadier Frank, MI5, MI6, Mountbatten, Louis, NATO, Oldfield, Maurice, Royal Family, RUC, Scappaticci, Freddie, UDA, UVF

  From the Vaults, IRA, kincora, mi5, mi6, RUC, UVF

• Nest of Spies (Webbook).

  

  1. Introduction. Part 1: A bloodsoaked start, after which cooperation was achieved. 2. From the elimination of the Cairo Gang to intelligence cooperation. 3. Spying on a Zionist TD for MI5. 4. Cooperation during the IRA’s Operation Harvest. Part 2. An aristocratic spy ring. 5. ‘It was as simple as picking up a phone.’ 6.…

  Covert History Ireland

  23 August 2025

  ARMS CRISIS, Crinnion, Patrick, FitzGerald, Garret, Garvey, Ned, Haughey, Charles, IRA, MI6, Oldfield, Maurice

  Andrew Ward, Arms Crisis, Charles Haughey, Colin Wallace, Colm Browne, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Craig Smellie, David Neligan, Earl of Granard, Erskine Childers, Fred Holroyd, Frederick Boland, G2, Garret FitzGerald, General Sean Collins-Powell, Gerry Jones, Guy Liddel, IRA, IRD, Jack Lynch, James Gibbons, John D. Moore, John Kelly, John McCoy, John Peck, John Wyman, Larry Wren, Liam Cosgrave, mi5, mi6, Michael Daly, Ned Garvey, Neil Blaney, Patrick Crinnion, Patrick Malone, Peter Berry, Peter Evans, Rita Dudley, Robert Briscoe, Robin Jackson, Ronnie Burroughs, RUC, Sir Andrew Gilchrist, Sir Anthony O’Reilly, Sir John Maffey, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Sir Sir Alexander Clutterbuck, The Badger, Thomas Coyne, Thomas Mullen, Tom Conaty, UVF, Vincent Heavin, Virgil Randolph III, WebBook