"DIRTY TRICKS" AND "SECRET" TALKS

JOHN GRIEVE 

Scotland Yard deputy commissioner John Grieve, who heads the Metropolitan police's anti-terrorist unit SO13, has been appointed to the newly-created [...]

MI5 SLAMMED FOR INCOMPETENCE AGAINST IRA 

The British security service MI5 could have prevented an IRA [...]

HOW OPERATION AIRLINE BEAT IRA 

An 11 week trial at the Old Bailey in London which saw six IRA active service unit (ASU) men convicted [...]

MI5 TO RECRUIT ON THE INTERNET 

To promote its policy of greater openness, MI5 is to launch an Internet web site later this year to provide [...]

AGENTS "IN RED" A SECURITY RISK 

According to the recently-published annual report from the British parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), British agents with financial problems [...]

MOD EMBARRASSED BY ARMY SPIES 

A spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that an internal investigation is being conducted into complaints from [...]

DARK SIDE OF POLICE VICTORY 

Scotland Yard's success in finding a major cache of explosives and rolling up a six-man IRA unit in late September [...]

BRITISH ROLL UP IRA SQUAD 

Firing so-called "rip rounds" of CS gas dust, the British authorities conducted dawn raids on two houses in south London [...]

PETER TEMPLE MORRIS 

Regarded as one of the best informed conservative MP's on Irish affairs, Peter Temple Morris, co-chairman of the influential Anglo-Irish [...]

WHEN THE "SLEEPERS" AWAKE 

What could well be the last in a series of major IRA-related trials ended at the Old Bailey in London [...]

MORE MI5 FOG AT THE CRASH 

Extremely tight security, including a Defence Notice (Directive 6) which bans reporting on intelligence matters, still covers the helicopter crash [...]

MAJOR MEDIA OPERATION 

By calling in the Iranian charge d'affair in London on 24 April, Gholamreza Ansari, the Junior British Foreign Minister, Douglas [...]

MADRONNA OFF TO A BAD START 

Hailed as the "biggest joint anti-IRA operation ever mounted" in the Ireland and Great Britain, Operation Madronna began on 19 [...]

MAJOR ROLL-UP OF BRIT SPIES 

According to Irish sources, the Garda Special Branch (SB) and G2 army intelligence have been involved for almost two years [...]

MI5 LEADS & ARMY WORRIES 

Political lobbyists in Westminster claim senior Conservative MPs are "advising" Prime Minister John Mayor to extend MI5's primary role in [...]

INTELLIGENCE BOOKLET II ON JIC 

A sharp public relations exercise was staged at the Cabinet Office in Downing Street on 1 October to promote the [...]

IRA & MI5 RACE AGAINST TIME 

Under the recent operation Rolling Rock, at least thirty armed vehicle check points (VCP) were established at random times and [...]

MI5-MET INFIGHTING TO COME? 

The command structure in the campaign against IRA on the British mainland is being radically reformed with the Security Service, [...]

One of the first tasks facing the newly appointed Home [...]

NEW SPY SUPREMO LIKELY 

A senior MI5 official is currently in Belfast conducting a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland and the [...]