Some More Questions On The Freddie Scappaticci Or Stakeknife Controversy
Further thoughts on the Freddie Scappaticci or Stakeknife affair from a reader who wishes to remain anonymous but who makesContinue Reading
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Freddie Scappaticci, StakeKnife And Britain’s Dirty War In Ireland
The more I hear about the Freddie Scappaticci spying or “StakeKnife” affair the more cynical I become. How did the ex-volunteer,Continue Reading
Britain’s Acronyms Of Terror – General Frank Kitson And The MRF, SRU And FRU
The British law lecturer and author Adeyinka Makinde has written an interesting piece for the website Global Research, touching upon the early career of Frank Kitson,Continue Reading
British Spies, Agents And Informers In The IRA
Last week the BBC news and current affairs programme, Spotlight, broadcast a series of interviews and dramatic reenactments with a man they calledContinue Reading
Brian Nelson, Britain’s Agent Of Terror During The Dirty War In Ireland
The British investigative journalist and author, Ian Cobain, has published a new book examining the United Kingdom’s post-WWII record of covert governmentContinue Reading
The Dublin And Monaghan Bombings And The Apologist Agenda
On the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1974, as rush-hour commuters made their way through Dublin’s city-centre, three car-bombs explodedContinue Reading
Captain Robert Nairac, Britain’s Death Squad Adventurer
2016 may be the centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916, and some journalists employed by the main titles ofContinue Reading
Pat Finucane, The Assassination Of An Irish Lawyer By British Terrorists
More on the slow unravelling of the secrecy and deception which obscured most aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland from the lateContinue Reading
Special Forces, Special Operations, Special Rules
In a similar vein to yesterday’s post on James Fallows’ controversial critique of the United States’ military in the Atlantic magazine comes this articleContinue Reading
Plenty Of Sinister Fringes To Go Around
From a report by the “Irish” Sunday People newspaper in July 2004: “At least three Garda officers in the scandal-hit forceContinue Reading
The Great Irish Media Cover-Up
The pretence that the media establishment in Ireland is anything other than anti-Republican in terms of its collective political ideologyContinue Reading
Licensed To Kill
While the revelations about the murderous activities of British Army death squads in Ireland in the early and mid 1970sContinue Reading
Death Squad Britain – The Past That Won’t Stay Hidden
Regular readers of An Sionnach Fionn will know how many times we have examined in detail the activities of Britain’sContinue Reading
Thoughtcrime Does Not Entail Death – Just Surveillance
Thanks to the big splash in today’s Guardian newspaper we now have more evidence of just how far we have travelledContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Troubles
Interesting revelation from court documents released in Belfast (via the Detail), where Ciarán Martin, the former Security and Intelligence adviserContinue Reading
More Accounts Of Death Squad Britain
Veteran Irish journalist and author Ed Moloney and his colleague Bob Mitchell continue their investigations into the Military Reaction Force (MRF), a British ArmyContinue Reading
Counter-Gangs – The Origins Of British Terrorism In Ireland
I’ve devoted considerable space on An Sionnach Fionn to cataloguing Britain’s dirty war in Ireland highlighting a wide range of evidence gatheredContinue Reading
Ian Hurst, Derek Haslam And Hackgate
More on Britain’s “super-spy” Ian Hurst (aka. Martin Ingram) with an alleged phone recording of the former soldier from the notoriousContinue Reading
Fantasy Troubles Part 4
In the aftermath of the publication of the de Silva report into the assassination of the Irish civil rights lawyerContinue Reading
Named And Shamed – The Faces Of Britain’s Death Squads In Ireland
Following the report by the former UN war crimes investigator, Sir Desmond da Silva, into the 1989 assassination of the Irish human rights lawyerContinue Reading
Pat Finucane – A Victim Of Britain’s State-Sponsored Terrorism In Ireland
On the 12th of Februaray 1989 the respected Irish civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane was sitting down to a Sunday dinner in hisContinue Reading
Fantasy Troubles Part III – Britain’s Superspies!
Back in December 2011 I addressed the grossly exaggerated issue of the alleged penetration of the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army by BritishContinue Reading
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