The bombing of New Forge RUC rest centre in the South of Belfast

 In 1984-5 after an attempt to recruit me as an informer by the government harem (MI 5) agent, Jennifer Mc Curry,I decided to retaliate against the police who she enlisted to conduct open surveillance on my student lodgings.

I took an interest in Thatctcer's inflammatory rhetoric to the effect that "there must be no hiding place for terrorists in the Irish Republic or anywhere else".

I decided to reciprocate RUC harassment with an attack on their vehicles outside my lodgings. I communicated this plan to Dave Mc Auley of Lower Falls Sinn Fein.

In the event,no such operation went ahead but Newry was mortared after the end of surveillance by liveried RUC landrovers. Nine police officers were reported dead.

Near where the MI 5 hooker lived was the rest centre for the police force.

I suggested that we bring a mortar up the Lagan Canal towpath on a trolley and fire it into the New Forge building.

I cannot remember if this attack went ahead.

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In my final briefings I told Jim Wray to either bomb or mortar the New Forge building.

 As I recall the building was attacked and serious damage was caused.

I recall that my bon MOT, possibly carried in An Phoblacht was that " Briefings there should be no resting place for terrorists."

Lurgan,the killing of police detectives

 In my briefings either in 1987 to Michael Mc Manus or in my final briefings, perhaps even earlier to Manus Maguire,the double agent,I mentioned or wrote down the prevalence of jogging by police detectives as a means of patrolling and surveillance.

The police were indeed very foolhardy and naive because their behaviour formed part of a consistent pattern. 

In my conversations with other IRA members I decided to kill two police joggers in retaliation for the killing of a member of the INLA outside the police station in Lurgan or Portadown. That volunteer was called Marshall. He was shot outside the police station and there were accusations of police collusion with his loyalist killers. Loyalist gangs were established by RUC Special Branch and British Army Military Intelligence to combat the republican insurrection.

Two policemen were subsequently killed in either Portadown or Lurgan as they conducted surveillance on those walking behind them. I pointed out in my briefings to Jim Wray, having carefully studied the subject,that surveillance can be conducted from in front of the intended target.

In the killings,the IRA members dressed as women.

The grenade and rocket attacks on the Falls Road

 After he stepped down from the IRA I maintained some contact with Michael Mc Manus of CIRA/Republican Sinn Fein and met him frequently over the summer of 1987 after the Loughgall Ambush.

I maintained my posture against the RUC ignoring the threat posed by British Army thugs.

It was Michael Mc Manus who communicated to me in February 1983 that I was the new Director of Operations (Northern Command) "whether you like it or not". There were no other witnesses to my appointment as D.O. (N.C.) who I know since Michael Mc Manus is dead and I do not know who appointed me to that role.

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During the summer of 1987, accurate memory fails me,I briefed Mick on killing yet more RUC members.

I said to him that the Makrolon cladding on police Land rover would withstand  a Rocket Propelled Grenade but that a rocket propelled grenade would penetrate the steel tailgates of same.

I was determined on the cold-blooded killing of policemen and suggested a follow-up operation of throwing a grenade into the back of a police land rover.

I anticipated the police would leave their tailgates open after the first attack.

These brutal and barbaric attacks cost seven policemen their lives.

This is what comes of mixing with dangerous people -DEATH.

The Bomb at Killeen

 In the 1980's I rose high in the ranks of the Northern IRA after sound academic achievements and a schooling in German industrial organisation.

During my briefings with Michael Mc Manus in the early 1980's I counselled concentrating our efforts on the police.

In my tactical guidelines,the killing of policemen and the bombing of their installations was my priority.

One of these intelligence-based targets was the crossing point on the North-South border at Killeen.

I specified to Mick my tactic of a huge bomb in a hay trailer to exploit the element of subterfuge and completely wiping out our RUC targets.

A huge bomb exploded at Killeen as per my instructions and three policemen and a young policewoman were killed.

The trap was a brutal and barbaric killing by people who it has been shown abandon those who they lured into involvement with the IRA.

Those people were bought by money and overpowered by political blarney which claimed many lives after the end of the conflict.

Many adherents of the IRA were sent to prison and places of confinement by Sinn Fein headmen styling themselves politicians in the years following the final ceasefire.

Many of their followers were described as schizoaffective by virtue of listening to silly nonsense such as the Adams lectures and taking seriously Martin Mc Guinness's baloney in the Green Book.

The killing of Gillian Johnston

 Between 1981 and August 1988,I endeavoured to gather details of RUC, British Army and UDR men's vehicles, marque, colour, manufacturer and type.

One of those vehicles was that driven by Gillian Johnston who was an ancillary worker in Lisnaskea Police Station.

It was as I recall a M.1 Vauxhall Astra,light blue.

The registration was FIB 525.

In most instances, my operational intelligence notes were thrown in the fire by disinterested Provos and I was told that "things aren't done that way".

In the summer of 1987,I passed on out-of-date information to Kathleen Gleeson in her house and told her that she should check the details first before acting.

I suggested her sister might know more about the police than I did. Indeed,in 1983 I had suggested to the Director of Intelligence in the county that we use traditional republican agents from strong republican families and new, unknown recruits to form intelligence units.

Gillian Johnston was ambushed on her way home to Garrison and killed. Gleeson either did not check the identity of the driver of the vehicle or wanted to kill a woman and make her the innocent victim of an armed attack.

Gillian Johnston left behind a heartbroken mother and a gravely traumatised boyfriend and grieving family circle.

This is what comes of high blown rhetoric in dirtrags like An Phoblacht and talk of armed struggle and wars of (national) liberation from demented penmen such as Danny Morrison and Gerry Adams.

My advice is,"Go and jump in Belfast Lough. You are both only tramps with tramps' tongues recruited from the dole queue by the Irish Army and vigilantees."

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In my briefing to Pat Doherty,the Director of Operations in August 1988,I recommended the standing down of the South Donegal/North Fermanagh unit of the IRA (and the reconstruction of the South Fermanagh/South Leitrim Command of the IRA according to standard military lines).

The downing of helicopters...."X" marks the spot.. Final orders

 In the period before Michael Mc Manus left the IRA in September 1983 to form the Continuity IRA,he imparted to myself the use of machine guns to bring down British Army helicopters.

This tactic involved positioning two machine guns on high ground several  hundred yards apart and firing at helicopters as they tried to escape rapid-fire,belt-fed machine guns.

This tactic was used in South Armagh in 1978 and brought down a British Army helicopter.

The tactic,best summed up as a curtain of fire,I revived in August 1988.

The instruction was passed on to GHQ.

Reports vary about the success of the tactic subsequently but one report indicates that six or seven helicopters were brought down by the IRA in the whole course of the Troubles.

I only recently became aware of the downing of a helicopter at Garrison,County Fermanagh.