Tag: Provisional IRA

• Operation Kenova Part 1.

  

  UPDATE: Freddie Scappaticci has passed away but Operation Kenova’s work goes on. Jon Boutcher’s first report is completed and on the PSNI’s ‘desk’. Now he is Chief Constable of the PSNI, Boutcher has left a decision on its publication to a designated police officer. SECOND UPDATE: The PSNI have announced they will publish Operation Kenova’s…

  Covert History Ireland

  11 November 2022

  MI5, Scappaticci, Freddie

  Brian Fitzsimons, Brian Nelson, Brice Dickson, Brigadier Kerr, Deirdre Younge, Desmond de Silva, Drew Harris, Frank Murray, Freddie Scappaticci, FRU, George Hamilton, Glennane Gang, John Deverell, John Stevens, Joint Services Group, Jon Boutcher, mi5, Nuala O’Loan, Nutting Squad, Operation Denton, Operation Kenova, Owen Corrigan, Peter Keeley, Provisional IRA, PSNI, Robert Nairac, Robin Jackson, RUC, Stakeknife, Tom Oliver, UVF

• THE BATTLE FOR ST MATTHEW’S, JUNE 1970: THE UNPUBLISHED PAMPHLET. The British Army left the area defenceless; someone had to step in.

  Introduction by Kieran Glennon. In the immediate aftermath of the violence that erupted in Belfast in August 1969, Citizens’ Defence Committees (CDCs) were formed in many nationalist areas; barricades were hastily erected and patrols of vigilantes armed with clubs were organised to ensure that loyalist mobs, the B Specials and the RUC were all kept…

  Covert History Ireland

  20 June 2020

  General, Intelligence Security and Covert Action, Politics

  British Army, Canon Pádraig Murphy, IRA, Provisional IRA, Tom Conaty