"If you show them a stiff upper lip and don't acknowledge their presence, eventually they get fed up and go away,those little varmints"...

....or,if you prefer,in August/September 1983, I stepped away from my role as Intelligence Officer and,putatively, Director of Operations (Northern Command),so careworn and handsome had I become....

BUT,WHY?

I was under pressure to have Roy Kells killed in the first place, something that I had decided not to do since Reverend Jackson had intervened and I had lost some of my old ire for "Potato-stunts". I did not want "to tear the heart out of the Protestant community along the border". I subsequently resisted all pressure to have him killed and instead counselled the bombing of the City of London, viewing matters in purely economic terms. I called that tactic "economic targets in London", returning to my theme in July-August 1988 in the 'great' drama of that summer.

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