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The Intelligence War against the IRA

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by Thomas Leahy


  Moloney, Ed. A Secret History of the IRA, 2nd edition (London: Penguin, 2007).

  Mulroe, Patrick. Bombs, Bullets and the Border: Policing Ireland’s Frontier: Irish Security Policy, 1969–1978 (Kildare: Irish Academic Press, 2017).

  Nash, Catherine, Reid, Bryonie and Graham, Brian. Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands (Farnham: Routledge, 2013).

  Neumann, Peter R. Britain’s Long War: British Strategy in the Northern Ireland Conflict 1969–98 (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003).

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  Ó Concubhair, Pádraig. ‘The Fenians Were Dreadful Men’: The 1867 Rising (Cork: Mercier Press, 2011).

  Ó Dochartaigh, Niall. From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

  O’Donnell, Catherine. Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism, and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1968–2005 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007).

  Omand, David. Securing the State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

  Patterson, Henry. Ireland’s Violent Frontier: The Border and Anglo-Irish Relations during the Troubles (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

  Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History (New York: State University of New York Press, 1991).

  Portelli, Alessandro. The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and the Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

  Smith, M. L. R. Fighting for Ireland? The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement (London: Routledge, 1995).

  Taylor, Peter. Brits: The War against the IRA (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002).

  Taylor, Peter. Loyalists (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000).

  Taylor, Peter. Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998).

  Taylor, Peter. Talking to Terrorists: Face to Face with the Enemy (London: Harper Press, 2011).

  Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).

  Toolis, Kevin. Rebel Hearts: Journeys within the IRA’s Soul (London: Picador, 2000).

  Urban, Mark. Big Boys’ Rules: The SAS and the Secret War against the IRA (London: Faber and Faber, 1993).

  Urwin, Margaret. A State in Denial: British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries (Dublin: Mercier Press, 2016).

  Wilson, Ray and Adams, Ian. Metropolitan Police Special Branch: A History 1883–2006 (London: Biteback Publishing, 2015).

  Whyte, John. Interpreting Northern Ireland (Oxford: Clarendon Paperbacks, 1999).

  Zegart, Amy B. Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).

  Journal Articles

  Bamford, Bradley W. C. ‘The Role and Effectiveness of Intelligence in Northern Ireland’, Intelligence and National Security, 20.4 (2005), 581–607.

  Bennett, Huw. ‘From Direct Rule to Motorman: Adjusting British Military Strategy for Northern Ireland in 1972’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33.6 (2010), 511–32.

  Bew, John and Frampton, Martyn. ‘“Don’t Mention the War!” Debating the Notion of a “Stalemate” in Northern Ireland’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 40.2 (2012), 287–301.

  Brannan, David W., Esler, Philip F. and Strindberg, Anders N. T. ‘Talking to “Terrorists”: Towards an Independent Analytical Framework for the Study of Violent Substate Activism’, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 24.1 (2001), 3–24.

  Bryan, Dominic, Kelly, Liam and Templer, Sara. ‘The Failed Paradigm of “Terrorism”’, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 3.2 (2011), 80–96.

  Charters, David A. ‘“Have a Go”: British Army/MI5 Agent-Running Operations in Northern Ireland 1970–72’, Intelligence and National Security, 28.2 (2013), 202–29.

  Craig, Tony. ‘From Backdoors and Back Lanes to Backchannels: Reappraising British Talks with the Provisional IRA, 1970–1974’, Contemporary British History, 26.1 (2012), 97–117.

  Dixon, Paul. ‘Was the IRA Defeated? Neo-Conservative Propaganda as History’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40.2 (2012), 303–20.

  Donohue, Laura K. ‘Regulating Northern Ireland: The Special Powers Act 1922–1972’, The Historical Journal, 41.4 (December 1998), 1089–120.

  Feenan, Dermot. ‘Researching Paramilitary Violence in Northern Ireland’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 5.2 (2002), 147–63.

  Grubb, Amy. ‘Microlevel Dynamics of Violence: Explaining Variation in Violence among Rural Districts during Northern Ireland’s Troubles’, Security Studies, 25.3 (2016), 460–87.

  Hopkins, Stephen. ‘The Chronicles of Long Kesh: Irish Republican Memoirs and the Contested Memory of the Hunger Strikes’, Memory Studies, 7.4 (October 2014), 425–39.

  Hopkins, Stephen. ‘The “Informer” and the Political and Organisational Culture of the Irish Republican Movement’, Irish Studies Review, 25.1 (2017).

  Kirk-Smith, Michael and Dingley, James. ‘Countering Terrorism in Northern Ireland: The Role of Intelligence’, Small Wars & Insurgencies, 20.3–4 (2009), 551–73.

  Leahy, Thomas. ‘The Influence of Informers and Agents on Provisional Irish Republican Army Military Strategy and British Counter-Insurgency Strategy, 1976–1994’, Twentieth Century British History, 26.1 (2015), 122–46.

  McAuley, James, Shirlow, Peter and Tonge, Jonathan. ‘So Why Did the Guns Fall Silent? How Interplay, Not Stalemate, Explains the Northern Ireland Peace Process’, Irish Political Studies, 26.1 (2011), 1–18.

  Moran, Jon. ‘Evaluating Special Branch and the Use of Informant Intelligence in Northern Ireland’, Intelligence and National Security, 25.1 (2010), 1–23.

  Mulholland, Marc. ‘Irish Republican Politics and Violence before the Peace Process, 1968–1994’, European Review of History, 14.3 (2007), 397–421.

  Mumford, Andrew. ‘Covert Peacemaking: Clandestine Negotiations and Backchannels with the Provisional IRA during the Early “Troubles” 1972–76’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 39.4 (2011), 633–48.

  Ó Dochartaigh, Niall. ‘The Longest Negotiation: British Policy, IRA Strategy and the Making of the Northern Ireland Peace Settlement’, Political Studies, 63.1 (2015), 1–19.

  Patterson, Henry. ‘Sectarianism Revisited: The Provisional IRA Campaign in a Border Region of Northern Ireland’, Terrorism and Political Violence, 22.3 (2010), 337–56.

  Sarma, Kiran. ‘Informers and the Battle against Republican Terrorism’, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 6.2 (2005), 165–80.

  Smith, M. L. R. and Neumann, Peter R. ‘Motorman’s Long Journey: Changing the Strategic Setting in Northern Ireland’, Contemporary British History, 19.4 (2015), 413–35.

  Taylor, Stan A. and Snow, Daniel. ‘Cold War Spies: Why They Spied and How They Got Caught’, Intelligence and National Security, 12.2 (1997), 101–25.

  Todd, Jennifer. ‘Thresholds of State Change: Changing British State Institutions and Practices in Northern Ireland after Direct Rule’, Political Studies 62.3 (2014), 522–38.

  Online Material and Newspapers

  ‘15-Year-Old Bernard Teggert Was Not an Informer’. An Phoblacht, 6 August 2009: www.anphoblacht.com/contents/20457.

  ‘A Chronology of the Conflict 1968 to Present’. CAIN online: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron.htm.

  ‘Anthony Braniff’. An Phoblacht, 25 September 2003: www.anphoblacht.com/contents/10570.

  ‘Bodies Found’. The Disappeared of Northern Ireland: https://thedisappearedni.co.uk/index.php/people-found.

  ‘Boston College Tapes: Police Get Access to Ex-Loyalist Prisoner Winston Rea’s Interviews’. BBC News Online, 5 June 2015: www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-33017930.

  ‘Breakdown of Population by District between 1987 and 1996’. CAIN online: www.cain.ulst.ac.uk/ni/popul.htm.

  Breen, Suzanne. ‘IRA Mus
t Clear Names of Stakeknife’s “Informer” Victims with Pardon, Says Ex-Provo’. The Belfast Telegraph, 13 April 2017: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/ira-must-clear-names-of-stakeknifes-informer-victims-with-pardon-says-exprovo-35618694.html.

  ‘Brendan Megraw’. BBC News Online, 14 November 2014: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-30044240.

  ‘Britain “Will Never Be Neutral” on Northern Ireland, Says Theresa May’. Irish Times, 29 March 2017: www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/britain-will-never-be-neutral-on-northern-ireland-says-theresa-may-1.3029077.

  ‘Caraher Family Still Seeking Justice after 17 Years’. An Phoblacht, 10 January 2008: www.anphoblacht.com/contents/17986.

  ‘Case to Proceed against Ivor Bell over McConville Murder’. BBC News Online, 15 September 2017: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41279110.

  ‘Collusion Debate’. BBC News Online, 15 June 2015: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-33140147.

  ‘Colombia Adopts Northern Ireland Peace Process Model in Bid to End Civil War’. Belfast Telegraph, 18 March 2014: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/colombia-adopts-northern-ireland-peace-process-model-in-bid-to-end-civil-war-30100821.html.

  ‘Colombia Profile – Timeline’. BBC News Online, 6 April 2017: www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19390164.

  ‘Confidential Files Give Insight into Margaret Thatcher’s View of Northern Ireland’. BBC News Online, 1 August 2013: www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-23534780.

  ‘Dolours Price’s Trauma over IRA Disappeared’. Irish News, 18 February 2010: https://bostoncollegesubpoena.wordpress.com/supporting-documents/irish-news/.

  ‘Families Demand Justice over IRA Victims “Executed” as Informers’. The Guardian, 1 June 2015: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/01/families-justice-ira-victims-executed-as-informers-british-army-agent-stakeknife.

  ‘Fermanagh Informer Had “Limited Information”’. An Phoblacht, 2 February 2006: www.anphoblacht.com/contents/14776.

  ‘Fógraí Bháis’. An Phoblacht, 3 November 2011: www.anphoblacht.com/contents/1184.

  ‘Fracas during Watchtower Protests’. BBC News Online, 17 December 2000: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/1075322.stm.

  ‘Freddie Scappaticci Was Our Most Valuable Spy in IRA during Troubles: British Army Chief’. Belfast Telegraph, 20 April 2012: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/freddie-scappaticci-was-our-most-valuable-spy-in-ira-during-the-troubles-british-army-chief-28739868.html.

  ‘Gerry Adams Freed in Jean McConville Murder Inquiry’. BBC News Online, 4 May 2014: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-27278039.

  ‘Hezbollah: Five Ways Group Has Changed since 2006 Israel War’. BBC News Online, 11 July 2016: www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36672803.

  ‘Internment’. CAIN online: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/intern/chron.htm.

  ‘IRA Investigation Locates Grave Sites’. An Phoblacht, 1 April 1999: www.anphoblacht.com/contents/4724.

  ‘IRA Mole Martin McGartland to Have Case against MI5 Heard in Secret’. The Guardian, 8 July 2014: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/08/ira-informer-martin-mcgartland-secret-hearing-mi5.

  ‘IRA Must Clear Names of Stakeknife’s “Informer” Victims with Pardon, Says Ex-Provo’. Belfast Telegraph, 13 April 2017: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/ira-must-clear-names-of-stakeknifes-informer-victims-with-pardon-says-exprovo-35618694.html.

  ‘IRA Pair Who Plotted City “Fireball” Jailed’. The Independent, 21 January 1995: www.independent.co.uk/news/ira-pair-who-plotted-city-fireball-jailed-1568954.html.

  ‘IRA “Supergrass” Wants to Return’. BBC News Online, 2 February 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6325241.stm.

  ‘Ivor Bell Unfit for Trial over Jean McConville Murder’. BBC News Online, 19 December 2018: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46626092.

  ‘I Want to Come Home – Raymond Gilmour Tells “Journal”’. Derry Journal, 2 February 2007: www.derryjournal.com/news/i-want-to-come-home-raymond-gilmour-tells-journal-1–2109605.

  ‘Jean McConville: Ivor Bell to Be Prosecuted for Aiding Murder’. BBC News Online, 4 June 2015: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-33005771.

  ‘Jean McConville Timeline’. The Guardian, 3 May 2014: www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/03/jean-mcconville-timeline-murder-gerry-adams.

  Larkin, Paul. ‘How Spooks Are Undermining the Peace Process in Northern Ireland’, The Guardian, 13 February 2012: www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/13/spooks-undermining-peace-northern-ireland.

  ‘“Life’’ Means 16 Months in Prison for IRA Killer’. The Guardian, 20 March 1999: www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/mar/20/johnmullin.

  ‘Margaret Thatcher Interview’. Belfast Telegraph, 13 December 1985: www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106202.

  McDonald, Henry. ‘British Army Unit Watched as Loyalists Shot IRA Man Dead, Report Finds’, The Guardian, 5 March 2012: www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/05/british-army-loyalists-ira-report.

  McKittrick, David. ‘The Spy’s Tale: The Life and Death of Denis Donaldson’, The Independent, 6 April 2006: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-spys-tale-the-life-and-death-of-denis-donaldson-472992.html.

  ‘Mole Named at Smithwick Tribunal’. Irish Times, 11 May 2012: www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0511/breaking31.html.

  ‘Ombudsman to Probe Police Collusion in Loyalist Killings’. The Irish News, 21 January 2016: www.irishnews.com/news/2016/01/21/news/ombudsman-to-probe-police-collusion-in-loyalist-killings-389669/.

  ‘People Found’. The Disappeared Northern Ireland: https://thedisappearedni.co.uk/index.php/people-found.

  ‘Police, Army Attacked at Armagh Watchtowers’. Irish Times, 10 December 2001: www.irishtimes.com/news/police-army-attacked-at-armagh-watchtowers-1.406827.

  ‘Results of Elections Held in Northern Ireland since 1968’. CAIN online: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/politics/election/elect.htm.

  Rowan, Brian. ‘McGuinness’s IRA War – How Does He Tell His Story?’, Eamonnmallie.com, 4 May 2012: http://eamonnmallie.com/2012/05/mcguinnesss-ira-war-how-does-he-tell-his-story.

  Rowan, Brian. ‘Spy Killing, a Dirty War, and Denis Donaldson’s Death’, Eamonnmallie.com, 24 April 2012: http://eamonnmallie.com/2012/04/spy-killing-a-dirty-war-and-denis-donaldsons-death-by-brian-rowan/.

  ‘Senior Officer Says Stakeknife Investigation “Might Not Have Been Possible” Before Now’. Irish News, 18 April 2017: www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2017/04/18/news/senior-officer-says-stakeknife-investigation-might-not-have-been-possible-before-now-999542/.

  ‘Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams’ Slur on Our Murdered Boy’. Irish Independent, 26 October 2014: www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/sinn-fein-leader-gerry-adams-slur-on-our-murdered-boy-30693492.html.

  ‘Stakeknife: Army’s Most High Ranking Agent within the IRA to Be Quizzed about 24 Murders’. BBC News Online, 21 October 2015: www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-34594175.

  ‘Stakeknife: Double Agent in IRA “Was Given Alibi By Senior British Officials”’. The Guardian, 11 April 2017: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/11/stakeknife-double-agent-in-ira-was-given-alibi-by-senior-british-officials.

  ‘Stakeknife: Ex-IRA and MI5 Members Could Be Prosecuted’. BBC News Online, 18 December 2018: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46598765.

  ‘Stakeknife Leaves the IRA “in Shock”’. The Telegraph, 13 May 2003: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1429902/Stakeknife-leaves-the-IRA-in-shock.html.

  ‘Still Missing’. The Disappeared of Northern Ireland: https://thedisappearedni.co.uk/index.php/missing.

  ‘Thousands Gather for Funeral of Prominent Republican’. The Examiner, 18 October 2011: www.crossexaminer.co.uk/archives/7338.

  ‘The Troubles: Former IRA Man Ivor Bell Cleared of Jean McConville Charges’. BBC News Online, 17 October 2019: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-50044269.

  ‘UVF Killed Sam Marshall as Eight Soldiers Watched – Cover-Up’. An Phobl
acht, 2 April 2012: www.anphoblacht.com/contents/1423.

  ‘Vintage Stuff from English Jails’. An Phoblacht, 20 December 2007: www.anphoblacht.com/contents/17918.

  Ware, John. ‘Exposed: The Murky World of Spying during the Troubles’, Irish Times, 11 April 2017: www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/exposed-the-murky-world-of-spying-during-the-troubles-1.3043818.

  Ware, John. ‘Scappaticci and the Importance of Reporting What We Know, Rather Than What We Think We Know … ’, Slugger O’Toole, 23 April 2017: https://sluggerotoole.com/2017/04/23/soapbox-scappaticci-and-the-importance-of-reporting-what-we-know-rather-than-what-we-think-we-know/.

  Whyte, John. ‘How Much Discrimination Was There Under the Unionist Regime, 1921–1968?’, Contemporary Irish Studies (1983): http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/discrimination/whyte.htm.

  Unpublished Secondary Material

  Leahy, Thomas. ‘Informers, Agents, the IRA and British Counter-Insurgency Strategy during the Northern Ireland Troubles 1969 to 1998’. King’s College London: Unpublished PhD, 2015.

  McBride, Ian. ‘Provisional Truths: IRA Memoirs and the Peace Process’. Unpublished paper, 2015.

  Index

  14 Intelligence Company, 139, 140, 141, 142, 159, 161

  Adams, Gerry, 46, 58, 232American visa, 222

  and armed struggle 1986, 218

  1989, 218, 238

  and Belfast, 142, 156

  and Denis Donaldson, 200, 228, 232

  and Douglas Hurd, 129

  and Father Alec Reid, 127, 200

  and Fianna Fáil, 201

  and James Prior, 133

  and John Hume, 201, 208, 217, 222

  and pan-nationalist talks, 218, 222

  and peace talks, 55, 115, 129, 130, 134, 135, 218, 219, 225, 235

  and republican strategy, 127, 128

  and Sir Patrick Mayhew, 209

  and talks with British officials June 1972, 52

  and the Garda, 200

  and the south Armagh watchtowers, 231

  and Whiterock leisure centre, 2061984, 206

 

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