Tag: Tom Conaty

• 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

• Misrepresenting Haughey’s relationship with the Provos.

  

  The Irish Times promoted the Official IRA’s version of the Arms Crisis

  Covert History Ireland

  18 December 2022

  Haughey, Charles, Intelligence Security and Covert Action, IRA, Irish Times, MI6

  Arms Crisis, Cathal Goulding, Charles Haughey, David Burke, Des O’Malley, Dick Walsh, IRA, Irish Times, Jack Lynch, James Kelly, James Molyneaux, Martin Mansergh, mi5, mi6, Sean Garland, Tom Conaty, Tomas Mac Giolla

• The Battle for St Matthew’s

  

  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

  ARMS CRISIS, British Army, General, Intelligence Security and Covert Action, IRA, Politics

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