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MI5 SLAMMED FOR INCOMPETENCE AGAINST IRA

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

Published on 02.07.1998 at 10:00 GMT

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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 [...]

Subscribers only 16.07.1998

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 24.07.1997

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 30.04.1997

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 13.03.1997

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.1997

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 03.10.1996

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 01.08.1996

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 14.06.1995

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 01.02.1995

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 06.07.1994

Iran, United Kingdom
MAJOR MEDIA OPERATION

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

Subscribers only 25.05.1994

Ireland
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 [...]

Subscribers only 04.05.1994

Ireland
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 [...]

Subscribers only 06.04.1994

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 09.02.1994

Northern Ireland
"DIRTY TRICKS" AND "SECRET" TALKS

According to Intelligence Newsletter sources in Ireland, information recently leaked to the media exposing secret contacts between the British government [...]

Subscribers only 08.12.1993

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 13.10.1993

Spotlight | United Kingdom
ANTI-IRA FAILURE

On 24 April the IRA detonated a one ton ammonium nitrate fertilizer-bomb in the heart of the London financial district at Bishopsgate. The intelligence failure and the technical details surrounding the attack augur poorly for MI5 and mean that without [.

Subscribers only 12.05.1993

United Kingdom
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 [...]

Subscribers only 16.12.1992

Spotlight | United Kingdom
BLOWN ANTI-IRA OPS

The current IRA bombing campaign in London could probably have been stopped if it hadn't been for lack of police and intelligence coordination that resulted in two fiascoes which received little publicity. And the possible fall-out from these blown anti-IRA [.

Subscribers only 04.11.1992

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United Kingdom JOHN GRIEVE

United Kingdom HOW OPERATION AIRLINE BEAT IRA

United Kingdom MI5 TO RECRUIT ON THE INTERNET

United Kingdom AGENTS "IN RED" A SECURITY RISK

United Kingdom MOD EMBARRASSED BY ARMY SPIES

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United Kingdom BRITISH ROLL UP IRA SQUAD

United Kingdom PETER TEMPLE MORRIS

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom WHEN THE "SLEEPERS" AWAKE

United Kingdom MORE MI5 FOG AT THE CRASH

Iran, United Kingdom MAJOR MEDIA OPERATION

Ireland MADRONNA OFF TO A BAD START

Ireland MAJOR ROLL-UP OF BRIT SPIES

United Kingdom MI5 LEADS & ARMY WORRIES

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United Kingdom INTELLIGENCE BOOKLET II ON JIC

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Viktor Orban's new security entourage

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Jamming wars

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Information wars in the Caucasus

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United Kingdom
MI5 SLAMMED FOR INCOMPETENCE AGAINST IRA

United Kingdom
JOHN GRIEVE

United Kingdom
HOW OPERATION AIRLINE BEAT IRA

United Kingdom
MI5 TO RECRUIT ON THE INTERNET

United Kingdom
AGENTS "IN RED" A SECURITY RISK

United Kingdom
MOD EMBARRASSED BY ARMY SPIES

United Kingdom
DARK SIDE OF POLICE VICTORY

United Kingdom
BRITISH ROLL UP IRA SQUAD

United Kingdom
PETER TEMPLE MORRIS

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
WHEN THE "SLEEPERS" AWAKE

United Kingdom
MORE MI5 FOG AT THE CRASH

Iran, United Kingdom
MAJOR MEDIA OPERATION

Ireland
MADRONNA OFF TO A BAD START

Ireland
MAJOR ROLL-UP OF BRIT SPIES

United Kingdom
MI5 LEADS & ARMY WORRIES

Northern Ireland
"DIRTY TRICKS" AND "SECRET" TALKS

United Kingdom
INTELLIGENCE BOOKLET II ON JIC

Spotlight | United Kingdom
ANTI-IRA FAILURE

United Kingdom
IRA & MI5 RACE AGAINST TIME

Spotlight | United Kingdom
BLOWN ANTI-IRA OPS

United Kingdom
MI5-MET INFIGHTING TO COME?

Northern Ireland
NEW SPY SUPREMO LIKELY