MI5's False Flag Operations in Northern Ireland

Ageeva

Jedi
I found the following article in an end of year edition of 'The Phoenix' magazine, an Irish news and satire magazine based on the UK's 'Private Eye'. I had been wondering for a while about the 'terrorist attacks' by the so-called 'Continuity' and 'Real' IRA and who really benefits from them. Whilst false flag operations and cointelpro carried out by British Intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland are nothing new, the evidence for Intelligence Forces collusion with loyalist terrorist groups is well documented, nevertheless the following is revealing re the current false flag events in Northern Ireland:

MI5's 'False Flag' IRA OPERATIONS

'The Phoenix' Annual December 2010

The influence of spooks on Irish Politics in 2010 went largely unnoticed as public attention concentrated on significant financial developments. But as the year ended, what may prove to be historic events were happening behind the scenes, with competing British spy groups clashing head-on in a battle for government funding and influence in Downing Street through control of events in Ireland.

The arrival in early November in Derry of Lord Carlile, independent advisor to the British Government on the acitivities of the Security Service (MI5), to investigate SDLP (Social Democratic and Liberal Party) claims that MI5 were involved in the shooting dead in February of leading Real IRA member Kieran Doherty outside the city could be the catalyst which exposes what has been happening on both sides of the Border, where MI5 has been running what is known in the spook business as «false flag» operations.

Carlile, a Liberal Democrat barrister of Polish Jewish background, has a reputation as an expert on hush hush matters. In various former posts he was «briefed by MI5» as he says – while as a member of the Athenaeum Club, he rubs shoulders regularly with senior Secret Service (MI6) officers in London. These are at loggerheads with MI5 over funding and conflicting policies on Ireland.

Carlile is, therefore, well-placed to find out what is happening undercover in Ireland. To underline he meant business, he responded within days to requests that he investigate, presumably, as Security Adviser, with Downing Street approval. He even went for a photo-op with the Doherty family members and SDLP man Mark Durkan to the spot on a country road outside the city where Doherty (31) was found tied and naked, shot in the head.
According to the BBC, MI5 has «increased the proportion of its budget spent on counter-Irish terrorism to meet the growing threat from the Real IRA and Continuity IRA. More staff has been sent to work at MI5's large Irish HQ at Loughside, in Palace Barracks, Holywood, Co. Down». MI5 boss Jonathan Evans, according to The Sunday Times, ordered the allocation of £20 million from the anti-al-Qaeda budget to the struggle against extremists in Northern Ireland.
According to the newspaper, which speaks with authority when it comes to British Intelligence, MI5 currently spends 18% of its budget on the dissident republican groups threat – up from 13% two years ago.

The «dissident threat» has been well-reported by the MI5 publicity machine. «The misgivings of the British Special Services are well-grounded,» reported the Russians. «Suffice it to say that this year, there have already been 33 terrorist attacks and attempted attacks compared with 22 in the whole of 2009. In this connection, iti is small wonder aht the British.... are concentrating on the escalation of violence in Ulster rather than on the struggle against Moslem terrorism.» (Radio Moscow, 24 Aug 2010) Al Jazeera carried similar reports quoting the same figures from Evans, telling the Commons' Intelligence and Securtiy Committee on 13 Sept 2010 that his organisation « had not anticipared the way in which the securtiy situation had deteriorated in Ireland.» MI5 Case Officers and Analysts at Loughside have been increased by 33%, it was reported (Belfast Telegraph, 13 Septembe 2010. They got their enhanced annual budget for 2011 some weeks ago.

While Moscow may appear to accept MI5's word that the «escalation of violence in Ulster is a major threat,» people closer to events, who are outside the far-reaching media influence of the spooks, like Lord Carlile, take a different view. Interestingly, David Cameron approved Carlile's flying visit to Derry with the same alacrity that the accepted the Bloody Sunday findings.

Many of the less that 50 «security incidents» reported by MI5 during 2010 relate to petrol bombs and pipe bombs. The former are bottles filled with petrol ignited by a lit rag when thrown: the latter are glorified fireworks made from a small pipe hammered closed at one end and filled with shotgun cartridge powder or material scooped from Chinese bangers bought at any back-street shop – hardly the weapons of a well-equipped guerilla force of the sort MI5 says it is fighting.
Occasionally, these «munitions» are supplemented with cardboard boxes left on the rail line near Lurgan to disrupt Dublin-Belfast travel. Anyone who sees street demonstrations inevitably must understand the real strength and limited importance of the varied dissident groups: without question, they are fewer in number than the 400 MI5 spies deployed against them.

But then, out of the blue in 2010, incidents happened which were hugely different from the «pipe bombs» and «petrol bombs» of schoolboy sophistication – displaying quite separate skills, and access to different resources, including Semtex and TPU (Timing and Power Unit electronic fuses). The dissidents also showed sudden signs of organisational ability previously thought by Garda (Irish Republic Police Force) Intelligence (CSB) to be beyond their capabilities. There had been an example fo this earlier, in 2009, when on one night alone, two reportedly different dissident factions (the Continuity IRA and the Real IRA) coincidentally or otherwise, shot dead two soldiers at Antrim and a PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) community policeman in Lurgan within hours – and then faded into the background, going back to making petrol bombs and fireworks pipe bomb bangers.

In 2010, several mysterious incidents occurred: in February a large car bomb blasted Newry courthouse, while in Derry, a vehicle bomb was parked outside a bank. No one was injured in these explosions, or by an under-car booby trap found by a police dog handler at this home. Again, they were out-of- character with previous actions by dissidents. It's at this point that Lord Carlile's arrival in Ireland should be seen as significant.
He will have been told, if not by Mark Durkan then by others in Derry, that many well-informed persons believe that much of the present dissident «military acitivity» results from «false flag» operations run by MI5. He may also have been told how, as secret talks are going on to bring maverick former IRA members into the peace process, a campaign to disrupt this – and to improve MI5 funding and importance as the premier spook organisation in Britain – is the reason for the MI5 strategy.

False Flag operations are as old as espionage. The British – in many memoirs by former counter-insurgency honchos – like to claim that they have been pre-eminent in the field since their colonial times. Basically, the controlling force (MI5 in this case) recruits, through blackmail or bribery, one or more agents within a target group. These are then moved into a position in the command structure (by virtue of arrests or assassination of rivals who might threaten this arrangement) where they can control the group's actions, without being questioned by comrades. The gangs whiich killed solicitors (attorneys) Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson, and loyalist Billy Wright, were MI5 false flag units, as events have shown.

The Derry dissident group which murdered Kieran Doherty is a false flag gang, as Carlile will have been told, not only in Derry, but probably in London by his Secret Service (MI6) contacts. They are aware of what has been going while they in MI6 are orchestrating «Parallel» negotiations (which mirror the old Back Channels of Martin McGuinness (deputy leader of Sinn Fein) fame) with dissidents, but find it hard to prove. Paradoxiacally, David Cameron seems less influenced by MI5 than his Labour predecessors – as shown in his approval of a high-profile visit by his representatives to meet relatives of Doherty, identifed publicly at this funeral as a Real IRA leader.

The three false flag gangs operate independently in the North and are used by MI5 for different purposes. A Derry city gang uses the name Real IRA. It funds itself through protection payments from nightclub drugs dealers. It has occasionally planted bombs and is run by a Strabane man who has worked for MI5 since the 1990s. In 1999, he was abducted by Provo security, but a suggestion that he be removed permanently or given a one-way ticket to leave Ireland was turned down by the Provo leadership, who thought MI5 would use whatever happened to destroy the peace process.
The Belfast false flag gang is based in Beechmount and calls itself the Real IRA or occasionally Oglaigh na h-Eireann. It has fewer than ten members and raises funds through protection rackets for brothels and drugs dealers. The Beechmount leader – claiming to be the «Chief of the Real IRA» - gave that recent Guardian interview in which he claimed that his group was going to target British bankers for assassination. This implausible story went around the world, and gained considerable publicity for the false flag gang – and kudos for MI5 in London, where they were still battling to win Treasury support for their Irish operations.

Recently, the Beechmount Brigade (also called disparagingly the Cardboard Box Command, because of a penchant for leaving fake box bombs at road junctions to disrupt traffic) created a link with one of the two factions in the Limerick criminal feud through a female relative. The gang is also involved in a continuing scandal in which a Belfast VIP loyalist has gone on the run in England with PSNI assistance, much more of which willl emerge in early 2011 and on which Lord Carlile (and in turn David Cameron) will have by now been briefed.

The most active of the dissident false flag gangs uses the Continuiity IRA name and is based in Lurgan. It has links with a crooked Portadown loyalist whose shop-front office premises are paid for by indirect government funding possibly arranged by MI5. Set up initially to smuggle Chinese counterfeit cigarettes, the Lurgan «Continuity» false flag is so sure of immunity from arrest that several of its members drove in two vehicles to Manchester earlier this year to threaten a rogue English solicitor with death at the hands «of the IRA « if he did not hand over money they believed they were owed. They had paid a deposit to buy a small cigarette factory in Pristina in the Balkans, where they intended to produce fake cigarettes for the English market.

How much of this information will have got into the hands of Lord Carlile as a result of his investigation of the Kieran Doherty killing is not known. Certainly, at least some of this would have been available from the Secret Service (MI6). Significantly, the MI6 spooks have publicly taken a quite different line from MI5 on the dangers posed by Irish republican dissidents. But more is likely to emerge in 2011.
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I believe it's unlikely that the sole reason for the false flag incidents is increased Treasury funding and naive in the extreme to suggest that Lord Carlile, with close links to the Intelligence services, will report publicly that British Intelligence services are engaged in false flag operations in Northern Ireland. Such a report would lead the wider public to start asking uncomfortable questions re 7/7 and indeed 9/11.
 
Interesting in light of the Real IRA's claim that it will start targeting bankers. What better way to uphold the banks' privileged positions and ensure their survival than to incite violence against them, justifying a clampdown on protests and increased police state measures?
 
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