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Thursday’s report by investigative website The Grayzone, that British Military Intelligence is planning to train Ukrainian insurgents in order to carry out a terrorist campaign in Crimea, comes at a time of increasing tensions between Moscow and London.
The Kremlin has already accused Downing Street of being involved in the Nord Stream explosions on the 26th of September, the Kerch Bridge explosion on the 8th of October, and last Saturday’s drone attack on the key Crimean port of Sevastopol, with UAVs being a key component of a recent military aid package gifted to Kiev by London.
Indeed, Britain’s role in the current Ukraine crisis goes as far back as November 2013, when the Euromaidan colour revolution was launched in response to then-President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to suspend an EU trade deal in order to pursue closer ties with neighbouring Russia.
Britain’s history of arming and training terrorist groups however, as outlined in last week’s report, goes back even further.
In 1971, the occupied north of Ireland had been in the grip of violence for two years.
Inspired by the civil rights campaign taking place in the United States at the same time, the north’s Nationalist community – those in favour of Irish reunification and generally descended from the indigenous Irish population – had begun a campaign in 1967, demanding equal rights within the British-created statelet.
Though peaceful in nature, the civil rights movement would be violently beaten and teargassed every time they took to the streets, by a police force composed almost entirely of Unionists, those in favour of remaining under British rule and generally descended from English and Scottish settlers, planted in the region in the 17th century.
As a result, support for militant Irish Republicanism was quickly growing and the Provisional IRA would be formed in December 1969.
The British Army, deployed to the region earlier in the year in order to enforce London’s rule, would quickly take sides in the emerging conflict.
To this end, the Military Reaction Force (MRF) was formed; a clandestine special forces unit intended to trigger a civil war between the IRA and Loyalist factions in order to draw Republican attention away from Crown Forces.
In order to implement this strategy, the MRF would carry out the murders of unarmed Nationalist civilians, usually in drive-by shootings, in the hope that the IRA would blame Loyalist groups such as the UVF and UDA.
The Unit would directly with Loyalist terrorists on the 4th of December 1971 however, when they arranged for British army checkpoints to be cleared from the New Lodge, a staunchly Republican area of Belfast, thus allowing a UVF team to bomb a local pub, McGurk’s Bar, leaving 15 civilians dead. This attack would mark the beginning of formal relations between British Military Intelligence and Loyalist death squads, a relationship that would soon escalate.
In 1974, relations between London and Dublin had been placed under significant strain owing to British atrocities in the north such as the Ballymurphy massacre, the 1971 murder of nine civilians by British paratroopers over the space of two days in Belfast, and Bloody Sunday in Derry, when British paratroopers again opened fire on a civil rights demonstration in January 1972, leaving 14 men dead.
Indeed, following the initial outbreak of hostilities in 1969, then-Taoiseach Jack Lynch had mooted the possibility of sending troops to the north, and in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, Irish police stood by as demonstrators burned down the British Embassy in Dublin.
Britain, fearing that the southern state would dissent from its traditionally pro-British stance and become a state sponsor of the IRA, decided that a message had to be sent.
On the 17th of May 1974, a Friday, three no-warning car bombs would detonate during rush hour traffic in Dublin, killing 27 people and injuring 300. A further seven people would be killed 90 minutes later when another bomb detonated in the border country of Monaghan, intended as a diversion to allow the bombing team to escape back into the occupied north. The death toll would be the largest of any single day during near 30 years of conflict.
The bombings, carried out by the UVF under the direction of the MRF’s successor, the Special Reconnaissance Unit (SRU) would ultimately result in the 26 County administration returning to its pro-British stance, and no further attacks would be carried out in the southern state on the same scale. In the north however, British Military Intelligence would continue to work hand in glove with Loyalist death squads, a relationship that would grow to accommodate the UDA as the 1980s dawned.
Although it had not yet carried out attacks on the same scale as the UVF, the UDA dwarfed its more well-known counterpart in terms of membership, counting 40,000 at its peak. It was not long before British Military Intelligence saw the group’s potential for use as a proxy, thus the Force Research Unit (FRU) was born.
A clandestine unit in the same vein as the MRF and SRU, the FRU’s purpose was to turn the UDA into a more ‘professional’ force, one that targeted IRA members, rather than the Nationalist civilians that both the UDA and UVF were known for killing in indiscriminate attacks.
To this end, the FRU would send Brian Nelson, a senior UDA figure, to South Africa in 1985, where a weapons deal was organised with Armscor, the official defence contractor of the-then Apartheid state. An arrangement that would lead to a deadly escalation of the UDA’s murderous campaign and would ultimately result in the killing of human rights lawyer, Pat Finucane.
Finucane, a Belfast native, had rose to prominence in the 80s through his representation of high-profile Republican prisoners, including IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. Quickly becoming a thorn in the side of the British establishment, the final straw would come in November 1988, when he successfully defended an IRA Volunteer against charges related to the deaths of two British soldiers.
On the 12th of February 1989, a UDA unit smashed down the front door of Finucane’s family home and shot him 14 times as had Sunday dinner with his wife and children. Less than a month beforehand, senior Thatcher cabinet member Douglas Hogg had given a speech in the House of Commons, where he spoke of solicitors in the north of Ireland who were ‘unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA’, effectively sanctioning Pat Finucane’s murder at the highest level of government.
Indeed, official British sponsorship of terrorist groups was not a tactic confined solely to Ireland at the time, with Downing Street also supporting the Afghan Mujahideen during the same period, a strategy they would also use in Libya and Syria during the past decade, and now, as the new decade dawns, Russia now appears to be the latest target in the long history of British-sponsored terrorism.
what do you do with a terrorist organization? Yes, you bomb it to ashes. So, Russia, the time for talking is over
Thanks for recognizing the dirty terrorist murdering acts of the British Government in the North and South of Ireland in the 70’s and the 80’s, I do not blame the people of Britain as they were brainwashed by the so called fair British and lying media and there murdering British Government
The English elites who planted Scots Calvinists in Northern Ireland, planted Indians and West Indians in England itself after WWII. Today, those immigrant populations have taken over the British government, and now control its nuclear arsenal. Do the same people supporting the Catholics in Northern Ireland support the indigenous English in a similar uprising against these African and Indian usurpers…?
Thanks for putting meat on the bones of what the British government was up too.
I think the IRA people are all dead, now, last we heard they make hard drives and whiskey in Ireland and try to promote the tourism industry, and they wanted to be in the EU and away from the UK
Sadly what is left of the Republican groups are riddled with informants.
This article does not put “the Troubles” in the context of Gladio and the internal political situation in the United Kingdom. The major figures in the IRA, McGuinness and Adams, were intelligence operatives of the British and Americans. The fomenting of violence served to derail any significant economic or social change in Ireland, and allowed Gladio operations to be conducted on the territory of the UK. The British MIC overthrew the government, and on two occasions cooked up full-blown military coup plots to install Mountbatten. Ireland remained the essentially fascist back-water it was until it was turned into a neoliberal casino, and the UK continued to degrade in standard of living, political consciousness and social cohesion. Most psy-op techniques used everywhere now were put in use by the British, beginning in Ireland long, long ago, continuing in India, and getting really refined in Palestine and then Kenya. The Americans learned at the feet of the masters, as did the French.
The first documented water-boarding torture was used in Derry when a teenager was water-boarded 19 times he told them nothing because he knew nothing he was just a civilian and not a member of any Republican organisation. The Brits couldn’t understand it so just kept water-boarding him. They also used sleep deprivation stress positioning and white noise on hooded men in a case now know as “the hooded men” with many being hooded and thrown from helicopters not knowing they were 5 or 6 feet in the air.
Water-boarding in the exact form we know it today was used by the Americans in the Phillipines 120-odd years ago. Frank Kitson, who had a very significant role in the British Gladio operations in Ireland worked on all the various psy-ops used in Ireland when he was in Kenya. He, and Ed Lansdale, who ran the American kook-show in the Phillipines after WW2 and later oversaw the campaign to scare the catholics out of North Vietnam, and David Galula, who developed French “counter-insurgency” theory in Algeria, put their heads together for the Rand Corporation in the sixties. The British were just front-runners because they built an empire in the “modern” era of banking, psyhological theory and communications technology.
Apologies Clyde I was only referring to actions in Ireland itself when I said the first waterboarding . They stopped the technique when they realised subjects would tell them whatever they wanted to hear just to bring an end to the session and thus the information gathered was utterly useless as graded intelligence.
Well said and if you go back in time, to when it was formed, exactly the same story. Back in 1917, using the same script that they used in The Maidan, back in 2014. 1917 when the Bolsheviks, another City of London creation, were overthrowing the Russian Empire. 1917, when so much was going on, just before and just after and how many Empires went down, during that period of time? Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire etc, etc, etc.
As you say, Gladio, and look how long it has been going and how we have all been played. Most nations.
I haven’t seen the link to Gladio before. Serious question – any links or recommended reading on this? I’m genuinely interested in following up.
Not officially. However, check out the history of Gladio and who were involved with the creation. Then check out events in history, who were responsible? What was the reason behind it? What script was played out and you will see a pattern forming.
1913 Fed Reserve was created, the same year that a certain oligarch along with two Irish brothers, who ran the left and right British media, established the Tavistock Institute of Human Behaviour. It was based on ‘mind control of the masses’ and also, to try and turn the pacifists in the US and Great Britain into cheerleaders for War. As WWI was being prepared. You also had the Balfour Declaration, which I believe was 1914, which led to the creation of Israel in 1947, the same year that the CIA was launched.
1917, the launch of the IRA, the Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian Empire. The end of WWI, based on self determination, you had the fall of 3 Empires, not forgetting the Russian Empire was now under the control of the Bolsheviks (who also run the US, UK and EU). In the 20s, National Socialists (Remember Hitler led the German Party), National Communists, Fascists (many fascist elite were also members of the British Socialist Elite Party, known as the Fabian Society). Mao’s Chinese Communist Party, also a creation of the 1920s, etc, etc, etc.
WWI – League of Nations. WWII – United Nations WWIII – Full Spectrum Domination – NWO
The CIA, there first exercise was to provide safe passage for the Bolshevik and Nanzi Elite, following the end of WWII. Allen Dulles and his brother, two Americans, one in the Finance sector and the other the first Director of the CIA, who were closer to their Bolshevik and Nanzi friends, over in Europe, than they were with their American peers. Allen Dulles, who was thrown out of the CIA in 1961, and went on to establish the Atlantic Council, aka NATO Admin. Think Tank. When looking into Operation Gladio, Allen Dulles is a good place to start.
One book I would recommend, with regards Gladio, is Richard Cottrel, ‘NATOs Dagger At The Heart of Europe – The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror.’
Look up Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd.
Also, the overthrow of Wilson and the people behind it were significantly related to the program in NI. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/04/wil2-a20.html
Wallace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8FDPU-tDBU
British (Military Intelligence) like yankee cia is all proxy for zio-terrorist juice, try again
It goes back long before 1971 but it wasn’t called “terrorism” back then
More City of London and Rockerfeller controlled.
The IRA first came to power, back in 1917 and what else was going on that year, besides the Bolsheviks overthrowing the Russian Empire?
If you look at how the IRA was formed and look at say the Maidan, or any Regime Change/Colour Revolution, you will find that they all run to the same script. Using Black Comedy, the IRA complain about the English, and remember, the average English person, back in the 19th Century was illiterate and working down the Work House, whilst the main backers of the IRA, were the same crowd that they were claiming to be against.
Almost a century later, the President of Russia, was answering a journalists questions, which are well worth revisiting and if you compare events of the early 20th century with events of the early 21st century, you will see exactly the same script is still running. Same characters, just different faces and all originated from City of London, Washington DC and The Vatican. All three, independent nations, that squat in sovereign nations, with their own taxes, own laws and using the same script as the old Roman Empire. Remember, Jerusalem was an outpost of the Roman Empire, over 2,000 years ago.
The island monkeys of Pirate Rock, the anglo filth in the angloZionaZi empire of shit are indeed among the most evil thugs on the planet. We can only hope that the ruling filth pay the “appropriate” price for their global back stabbing, terror and crimes against humanity.
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That’s queer. The British colonized Ireland in the 16th century, not the 17th. How could somebody get that so wrong?
Britain today get to much credit their military is reduced to shit the country is fucked and the clowns in the government haven’t a clue and heading for massive Street protests. 🙄 🙄
“Great” Brittian was established from looting trade ships in history, so its a pirate stronghold.
Speaking as an Irish citizen – good, accurate article.
Lo que me fastidia de los rusos es el respeto y admiración que le tienen a los anglossajones, es su lugar preferido para llevar todo lo robado en Russia, el mismo Putin se muestra cobarde permitiendo que en ucrania operen los servicios secretos británicos-norteamericanos impunemente cuando debería eliminarlos pues actúan bajo la máscara de “asesores” Resulta que el último ataque con drones a la flota de Sebastopol era conocida por los servicios secretos rusos y no hicieron nada para abortarlo y destruir y eliminar a esos británicos que operaban desde ochakov, es bastante ridículo que los rusos vivan esperando el próximo daño para reaccionar, daño que generalmente lo hacen los asesores británicos