Bibliograph

Northern Ireland, the troubles : from the Provos to the Det, 1968-1988, Kenneth Lesley-Dixon

Type

Label

Northern Ireland, the troubles : from the Provos to the Det, 1968-1988, Kenneth Lesley-Dixon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Northern Ireland

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kenneth Lesley-Dixon

Series statement

History of terror

Sub title

the troubles : from the Provos to the Det, 1968-1988

Summary

It is, of course, no secret that undercover Special Forces and intelligence agencies operated in Northern Ireland and the Republic throughout the troubles, from 1969 to 2001 and beyond. What is less well known is how these units were recruited, how they operated, what their mandate was and what they actually did. This is the first account to reveal much of this hitherto unpublished information, providing a truly unique record of surveillance, reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, collusion and undercover combat. An astonishing number of agencies were active to combat the IRA murder squads (the Provos), among others the Military Reaction Force (MRF) and the Special Reconnaissance Unit, also known as the 14 Field Security and Intelligence Company (The Det), as well as MI5, Special Branch, the RUC, the UDR and the Force Research Unit (FRU), later the Joint Support Group (JSG)). It deals with still contentious and challenging issues as shoot-to-kill, murder squads, the Disappeared, and collusion with loyalists. It examines the findings of the Stevens, Cassel and De Silva reports and looks at operations Loughgall, Andersonstown, Gibraltar and others

Target audience

adult

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