Stakeknife pdf

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This is a major contribution to the history of the conflict and of why peace emerged in Northern Ireland. The decision or refusal to inform is dangerous—thus the motives of the informers are compelling, as is their ability to deceive themselves. Drawing on firsthand and newspaper accounts of the Easter Rising and other events, this book provides a history of the gradual development of informing in Ireland.

All of them have shared two experiences: the accusation of informing, whether true or false, and betrayal, whether committed or endured. Over three decades he has interviewed and investigated some of the most professional, dangerous and ruthless killers in Ireland.

Now Dillon explores their personalities, motivations and bizarre crimes. Many of Ireland's assassins learned their trade in fields and on hillsides in remote parts of Ireland, while others were trained in the Middle East or with Basque separatist terrorists in Spain.

Some were one-target-one-shot killers, like the sniper who terrorised the inhabitants of Washington State in the autumn of , while others were bombers skilled in designing the most sophisticated explosive devices and booby traps.

Another more powerful group of 'trigger men' were the influential figures in the shadows, who were experts in motivating the killers under their control. All of these men, whether they squeezed the trigger on a high-powered rifle, set the timer on a bomb or used their authority to send others out to commit horrific and unspeakable acts of cruelty, are featured in this book.

The Trigger Men takes the reader inside the labyrinthine world of terrorist cells and highly classified counter-terrorism units of British Military Intelligence. You can understand why the leadership of the IRA is reeling at the claim that the deputy head of its internal security organisation has been a paid informer since But why should the core of the British state be thrown into panic at the naming of Alfredo Scappaticci as their top agent, codenamed Stakeknife?

The answer is simple. Far from keeping two warring sides apart, the British state either allowed or organised the murder of large numbers of mainly Catholic citizens to protect a sectarian set-up. The Labour government of the time and its Tory predecessor had already cast aside two chances for peace. The British state turned instead to the methods of a dirty war directed not only at the IRA, but at the base of Republican support in Catholic working class areas.

The late s and early s marked the high point of an assassination policy. Having Stakeknife led the British state, through the FRU, to authorise him to kill possibly dozens of people. Others were fellow agents who the army or MI5 judged had become troublesome or past their use-by date. There were plenty of random murders of Catholics by Loyalist gangs. The naming of Scappaticci lends weight to revelations a few years ago about the murder.

Loyalist gunmen originally set out to kill Scappaticci. But the British army forged an intelligence dossier familiar? British officers decided an innocent man could satisfy Loyalist bloodlust.

Information passed to Loyalists through Nelson was responsible for the murder of 30 Catholics, including Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. That is according to the handful of pages we have been allowed to see of the investigation into army collusion in Northern Ireland, conducted by Metropolitan police chief Sir John Stevens. Informants and agents were allowed to operate without effective control and to participate in terrorist crimes.

That is why defence secretary Geoff Hoon has mercilessly tried to impose gagging orders on him. The British army ran agents on both sides. To protect infiltrators in the Republicans, they used infiltrators in the Loyalists to organise the murder of uninvolved Catholics.

This leaves aside the direct murders by the British army and attempts in the s to destabilise the Labour government. How much of this will ever come out through investigations by senior establishment figures such as Stevens?

Not a lot, if the public inquiry into the murder of 13 unarmed Catholics by the paratroop regiment on Bloody Sunday in is anything to go by. Martin Ingram did eventually get to give evidence on Monday of this week.

What documents? Nobody knows. Nobody was permitted to ask. Perhaps a few junior heads might roll. But we already know the fate of senior figures who orchestrated the dirty war. The former head of the FRU, brigadier general Gordon Kerr, is now the military attache ie head of spying at the British embassy in Beijing — making him a key figure in British intelligence.