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.
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