The turn back to landmines cost about 16 policemen their lives. That and other suggestions I made to Michael Mc Manus during the summer of 1987 with a view to killing more policemen.
Even though I had been caught up in the snares of academic spies who combined learned discourses about nothing in particular with intimidation and harassment and general annoyance,the Three Steps to (Police) Heaven,I had not lost my rank of No.3 in the IRA pecking order, responsible for the day-to-day running of the IRA and carrying out the instructions of the Standing Orders with certain personal modifications. I never,or rarely, discuss the latter,suffice it to say many people who were given up as dead are still alive,no thanks to me and half-baked eejits like me. Likewise, my absence in England had not undermined my standing since most IRA men are not very suspicious or overwrought by taking tangental "evidence" into account. I tried to get them to do so between 1983 and 1986. My Security Operations Handbook and Intelligence Operations Handbook were soon discarded and in 2002 all copies were destroyed by the FBI agent, Kathleen Gleeson,and the MI 5 agents Jim Gibney and Manus Maguire.
While suspected of complicity in a minor breach of Standing Orders,Michael Mc Manus passed on only names and addresses to the police as did my female cousin,Ann Reihill.
Mick passed on my instructions to an individual who was known as Pat "Ward".
As an uneducated man,Mick Mc Manus was a willing tool of the CIA's Bernard O Connor who now finds himself in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan to escape police surveillance and MI 5 measures.
Sadly,the legacy of the IRA in Northern Ireland is one of death and ruin of many young people and their families and the collapse of the working life. With that has arrived a super-annuated class of social parasites festering on the British Welfare State.
Basta,stay in the South where you belong,O Connor.
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The alternating use of grenades and rocket propelled grenades after this period of military dialogues cost seven more policemen their lives.
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I suggested to Michael Mc Manus a schema to get rid of the INLA,ta gang of drug pushers,pimps, criminals and cutthroats.
I reckoned that to clear the decks of opponents we should identify two factions and nurture them with different stories (or 'leads') and play them off against one another.
I was merely fleshing out the core of Adams' speeches to the effect that 'the INLA should disband'.
My briefings cost twelve to thirteen INLA and IPLO militants their lives as they played out violent armed confrontations on the streets of Belfast in the months following my briefings in the spring/summer/autumn of 1987.
Republican socialism was thereafter a broken reed,thanks to my interventions through Mick Mc Manus and the IRA.
Joseph Paul Mc Carroll LL B ( Hons) (QUB)