Tag: Sir John Maffey

• 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