The Intelligence War against the IRA

by Thomas Leahy

Swift, Alan, 161

  Syria, 10

  Taliban, 14

  Tasking and Co-ordinating Groups (TCGs), 141–142, 182–183, 240

  Taylor, Peter and Stephen Lambert, 230

  on British intelligence, 66

  on discrimination, 46

  on IRA activities in England, 196

  on IRA arrests, 91

  on the breaking of the IRA ceasefire (1996–1997), 224

  on the Derry Brigade (Derry city IRA), 93, 160

  on the IRA ceasefire (1974–1975), 112

  on the IRA ceasefire (June–July 1972), 50

  on the Lenadoon incident (1972), 54, 58

  on the Metropolitan Police Special Branch (MPSB), 106

  on the MRF, 32, 33

  Teggart, Bernard, 84

  Terry, Sir Peter, 193

  Thatcher, Margaret, 130, 197, See also British Conservative Party; Brooke, Peter; Heath, Edward; Hurd, Douglas; King, Tom; Major, John; Mayhew, Sir Patrick; Prior, Jamesand Brighton bomb (1984), 193

  and intelligence, 241

  and multi-party talks, 131

  and the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985), 132

  and the intelligence services, 141

  and the IRA and Sinn Féin, 131–136, 137, 241

  and the IRA hunger-strikes (1980–1981), 128, 131

  The Hunt Report (1969), 18

  Thornton, Harry, 45, 47

  Tighe, Michael, 180, See also HMSU; McCauley, Martin; North and mid-Armagh IRA

  Toman, Eugene, 180, See also Burns, Sean; HMSU; McKerr, Gervaise; North and mid-Armagh IRA

  Toolis, Kevin, 157, 158

  Trainor, Patrick Gerard, 148, See also Valente, Peter

  Tuzo, Sir Harry, 33, See also British Army

  Twomey, Séamus, 52, 54, 55, 56, 67, 115

  Tyrie, Andy, 72, See also Barr, Glenn; UDA

  Tyrone (county), 45, 48, 103, See also East Tyrone Brigade (IRA); McKearney, Tommyand Cookstown council, 202

  and discrimination, 18, 46–48

  and Dungannon council elections, 185

  Cookstown council elections, 46–47, 201

  Dungannon, 46, 47, 97, 114, 182

  nationalists and Monaghan, 47, 99

  Omagh, 46, 182

  Omagh council elections, 185, 201, 222

  Strabane, 47, 185

  UK representatives for Northern Ireland, 24, See also Smith, Howard; Steele, Frank

  Ulster Defence Association (UDA), 210and independence for Northern Ireland (1974–1975), 71–72, 73–74, 79, 113–114

  and the British government, 114

  and the IRA, 52, 72–73, 110–111

  and the Irish government, 72–74, 113–114

  and the Lenadoon incident (1972), 54, 57, 58

  Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), 35, 41, 138, 177, 179, 213and the Belfast Brigade (IRA), 35

  and the Derry Brigade (IRA), 159

  and the Down IRA, 179

  and the Fermanagh IRA, 176

  and the IRA, 92

  and the North and mid-Armagh IRA, 180

  and the rural IRA, 186

  and the Tyrone IRA, 182, 183

  Ulster loyalists, 66, 75, 112and British government policy, 18–19

  and British intelligence, 8

  and collusion, 181, 242

  and independence for Northern Ireland, 78, 79, 114, 129

  and independence for Northern Ireland (1974–1975), 67, 71, 72–74, 75, 113–114

  and the ‘Glenanne gang’, 181

  and the IRA, 210–211

  Ulster Special Constabulary (B-Specials), 18

  Ulster Unionism and discrimination, 46–47

  and Home Rule, 28

  and independence for Northern Ireland (1974–1975), 73–75

  and majority rule, 17–24

  and the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985), 132, 202–203

  and the British government, 114, 122, 137, 225

  and the IRA, 176–177, 213

  and the Irish government, 74–75

  and the peace process, 202–203, 233

  rejection of Éire Nua, 50

  Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 19, 65, 132, 177, 202, See also Ulster Unionism

  Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), 63, 68, See also Ulster Loyalism1913–1914, 28

  unaffiliated republicans (dissenting republicans), 11, 12

  United States of America government (US government), 222, 234, 240

  Urban IRA. See Belfast Brigade (IRA); Derry Brigade (Derry city IRA)

  Urban, Mark, 124, 140, 174, 175

  Valente, Peter, 147–148, See also Bradley, Gerry; Feeney, Brian

  Vanguard, 72, 73, 110, 114, See also Craig, Bill

  Vengeful, 32, 152, 174

  Wales, 192, 193

  Walsh, Damien, 212

  Walsh, Séanna and the peace process, 227

  on arrests, 188

  on the Belfast Brigade (IRA), 85, 154

  on the IRA’s Long War strategy, 127

  Ward, Judith, 105

  Whitelaw, William, 18, 40, See also British Conservative Party; British Government policy; Heath, Edward; Major, John; Thatcher, Margaretand the IRA, 17–18, 26, 28, 63, 64–65, 79

  and the IRA ceasefire (June–July 1972), 26, 27, 52–53, 54–55, 56, 57–58, 59, 244–245

  and the Lenadoon incident (July 1972), 57–58

  and the low-profile policy (1972), 38

  and the SDLP, 17–18, 25, 28

  Whyte, John, 6, 18, 46

  Wilson, Gordon, 212, See also Wislon, Marie

  Wilson, Harold, 18, 137, See also British government policy; British Labour Party; Callaghan, James; Donoughue, Bernard; Jenkins, Roy; Mason, Roy; Rees, Merlynand discrimination in Northern Ireland, 18

  and independence for Northern Ireland (1974–1975), 63, 66–68, 69–72, 75–79, 113

  and intelligence, 241–242

  and IRA activities in England, 77–78

  and loyalists and unionists, 75–77

  and talks with the IRA (1972), 49, 52, 53–55, 56–57

  and the fifteen-point plan, 53–54

  and the IRA ceasefire (1974–1975), 66–68, 69–72, 75–79, 110, 114, 241

  and the proscription of Sinn Féin, 54–55, 56–57

  Wilson, Marie, 212, See also Wilson, Gordon

  Woodfield, Sir Philip, 55, 65

  Wright, Seamus, 83, See also Hughes, Brendan; McKee, Kevin

  Young, James, 179

  Zegart, Amy, 240