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.