Tag: John Peck

• The Smearmeister from the Irish Times

  

  Hugh Mooney, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, worked at The Irish Times before becoming the UK’s foremost black propagandist in the early 1970s. Among his many successes, he distorted the truth about what happened on Bloody Sunday, the bombing of McGurk’s bar and circulated smears about John Hume. The Bloody Sunday and John Hume…

  Covert History Ireland

  13th December 2025

  FitzGerald, Garret, Hart Inquiry, Haughey, Charles, IRA, Irish Times, MI5, MI6

  Bloody Sunday, Hugh Mooney, ian Paisley, IRA, IRD, Irish Times, John Peck, kincora, mi5, mi6, Sir Howard Smith, Sir John Rennie, WebBook

• Nest of Spies.

  

  1. Introduction. I remember being struck by a passage in the late Kennedy Lindsay’s book, ‘The British Intelligence Services In Action’ (1981). Lindsay, a Unionist politician, alleged that MI6: ‘has numerous agents and informants [in the Republic of Ireland], including many at high levels in the civil service, police, and armed services. The territory had been part…

  Covert History Ireland

  23rd August 2025

  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

• Our Man in Dublin. [WebBook]

  

  1. Introduction. There was a deeply clandestine aspect to the Troubles. It involved the manipulation of public opinion via propaganda. All of the parties involved in the conflict participated in the process to one extent or another. Britain’s Foreign Office was by far the most successful. The British Secret Service (MI6) and the Information Research…

  Covert History Ireland

  18th November 2024

  INLA, IRA, Irish Times, MI6

  Ebook, IRD, Irish Times, John Peck, Maj McDowell, mi6, WebBook

• Dining for Her Majesty.

  

  Introduction: The Irish Times apologetically sought guidance on what to report from London. In an earlier article in this series – which looks at British intelligence propaganda operations and The Irish Times – I outlined how Maj. Thomas McDowell, the Belfast-born Unionist, ex-British Army, ex-MI5, owner of the paper, had approached 10 Downing Street in…

  Covert History Ireland

  15th November 2024

  Haughey, Charles, Irish Times, MI6

  Arms Crisis, Brian Crozier, Charles Haughey, fianna fail, IRD, Irish Times, John Peck, Maj McDowell, mi6, NATO, Russia, Sir Andrew Gilchrist, Sir Richard Moore

• The Spy in Leinster House. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris cannot be asked to investigate due to a conflict of interest. Harris used to work with MI5. By David Burke.

  

  1. The British agent in Leinster House. The Joint Support Group (JSG) ran British agents in the Republic of Ireland for British military and civilian intelligence agencies during the Troubles. A former British military intelligence agent known by the pseudonym, Sam Rosenfeld, has alleged that a senior Irish government figure has served as an agent…

  Covert History Ireland

  22nd December 2022

  British Army, MI5

  Arms Crisis, BND, Charles Haughey, Charlie Flanagan, Chinook, CIA, Craig Smellie, Drew Harris, G2, Garret FitzGerald, IRD, Irish Times, Jack Lynch, JIC, John Moore, John Peck, Joint Support Group, Leo Varadkar, mi6, Neil Blaney, Peter Keeley, PSNI, RUC, Sam Rosenfeld, SDECE, Smithwick, Virgil Randolph III