The activities of the IRA Security Unit

 In March 1983 I broached 'A prospectus for intelligence-led operations ' with Bernie O Connor,the Director of Intelligence of the Fermanagh Brigade.

Shortly afterwards I pointed out that we should not adopt the Walter Mitty-style unit type of organisational structure favoured by Adams.

I believed from the beginning in 'open warfare'.

To maintain a corps d'esprit other methods of not allowing the informer phenomenon to develop were in dire need of deployment.

Intelligence operations being a form of offence and attack,I believed that for the purpose of defence,a Security Unit was required.

I knew nothing of the subsequent work of this proposed Security Unit which I said should be delegated to those who specialised in this task.

In 1984-5 I wrote a Security Operations Handbook,a companion to the Intelligence Operations Handbook of 1983-4.

This was photocopied by Manus Maguire and given to British Military Intelligence in January 1985 to barter for his freedom and the original documents were handed over to Kathleen Gleeson in August 1987.

Maguire also gave the document to the IRA,I surmise,because in 1985 the Security Unit ramped up its activities (more than two years before I handed over the originals).

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The main task of the Security Unit within the IRA was to interrogate suspected double agents,kill informers who had had IRA men murdered and deal with the criminal classes from whom informers were recruited. In the event,the activities of the Unit attracted much alarm amongst volunteers and violated the rules of lawful armed conduct, bringing the IRA into disrepute and entailing that the whole organisation had to be disbanded eventually.

The Security Unit drove out criminals from Catholic areas in association with other IRA units and armed groups of volunteers. 2 000 -3 000 criminals were given their marching orders under 'the 48-hour rule'. That rule I devised in the mid-eighties in my writings on counter intelligence.

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In August 1988 I effectively put an end to the killing rage of the so-called Security Unit by threatening to have Jim Wray (aka 'Johnny White') courtmartialled and killed if he did not 'cease and desist' from his activities.

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On the subject of counter-intelligence,it should be said that the "Scapaticci the Agent" nonsense must be knocked on the head.

There is no more truth to this composite of British Army members who joined the IRA than there is in other 'British Intelligence's hoaxes.

I refer to these poofs and puffed-up powder pastry queens talk of fooling the Germans into the belief that the Allies would land in Holland in June 1944,the talk of losers.

The contemporary German military magazine,Das XIX Jahrhundert of May/June 1944 clearly reveals German foreknowledge of an attack in Normandy.

Open your eyes before you open your mouths, Englishmen. Leave your pen in its cover.

This PSNI nonsense about Scapaticci falls into the same category of self-delusion and a show for the public's consumption.

The truth of the matter is that 'the Agent known as Stakeknife' is a composite of Adams driver,Mc Guinness's driver,Donaldson and Brian Mc Cartney.

There is no point anyone sitting it out until the truth is revealed as it were.

Another British Government hoax and a load of old cobblers.

Catch yourselves on,conspiracy theorists and be quiet,Boucher-Hayes.

Your head is up your a.se if you believe executioners are spies.

The truth of the matter is that British soldiers who joined the IRA remained true to their oath and yet participated in IRA activities such as the killings at Casement Park of other British soldiers.

The British soldiers owed their first loyalty to the Army and they were joined by opportunists such as Mc Cartney. He wanted to be allowed to practise law. His brother-in-law was killed in a rocket attack on the Falls Road in September 1983.

All these people who are named in this composite of a supposed agent must in any case leave our shores in the very near future.

These people serve the interests of a foreign and hostile government whose interests historically and presently are inimical to Irish interests.

Rather than talk in terms of an intelligence collage,we should be thinking of how to stop a police force in an independent country gaining dictatorial powers and so much resources as the Gardai/RIC and RUC/ PSNI/ NHS have assumed.

Away with your lies,cruel Britannia and monstrous Michael Martin.

Only a fool takes these false journalistic reports and police cover stories seriously. The journalists  and police are liars and fiction writers.

Basta!Non sequire!