“Hearsay” – RUC/Military Intelligence
Assassinations
Operational
intelligence – movements, car registration, numbers, appearance (height, build,
hair colour and length), distinguishing features, residence, home layout.
General/political
intelligence – agents of influence.
Police
intelligence gathering, – firstly by police surveillance
and “routine” patrols.
Secondly, by informant’s
casual information forwarded on the basis of the police being representatives
of civil society.
Thirdly, informers,
paid agents of the police and military intelligence inside revolutionary
organisations.
Fourthly, agents
provocateurs of the police and army within revolutionary organisations, whose
role is to encourage illegal activity which would ‘draw out’ the
revolutionaries with the aim of providing a pretext to bring revolutionaries to
the courts on artificial grounds.
Latter unconstitutional in
the United States, the freest country in the world, police provocation is a
defence in the United States.
Instances
of police/military intelligence in the North
The 'players' – RUC
Special Branch and Military Intelligence and MI5. Army involved on basis that
disturbances are at such a level that “aid to civil power” by army is necessary
for the maintenance of political power by the middle and capitalist classes.
Sources
-
I Political Murder in NI by Martin
Dillon (Sunday Times Insight Team)
II Court Reports e.g. Trial of Robert
McConnell (November/December 1980) lists from SAS intelligence i.e. Sergeants
Mc Nair and Gow. Murder of IRSP leaders and attempted murder of Bernadette
McAlliskey.
III Books from clergy – SAS in Ireland
by Fathers Murray and Faul.
IV Murders of UDA, 1980’s, Pat Finucane
Systems
of Operation
Direct contact between M.I./S.B. and
agents.
Three – person method
MI5
employee
Go-between
e.g. businessmen
Agent
FBI/CIA double cut-out
FBI/CIA
Agent
Go
between No.1
Secondary
intermediary
Agent
Political Policing Notes
Against
Individuals
Displacement/eviction
Unemployment, Berufsverlot
Harassment and intimidation
Murder, “accidents”, assassination in certain cases
Stigmatisation
Impoverishment
Discrediting by MI5, political, financial and sexual
misconduct.(Channel 4,1987,MI5 officer)
Against
Movements
Massacares of civilians e.g. Bloodly Sunday a tactic
used against a mass movement movement,pacification.
Making organisations illegal
Prohibition on arms/drilling/organisation etc.
marches, demonstrations.
Provocation of mass movements to bring forth
terrorism. Attitude of Socialists. Kitson.
Economic
Policing Methods
Strikebreaking e.g. Australia docks, 1998
Proscribtion of strike movements e.g. ballots, union
recognition, financial penalties.
Injunctions against picketing, union ballots,
recognition disputes
Political Policing. 2.
Against Individuals
– social “punishment”
Sleep deprivation,
white noise, street scenes with hooligans, thieves, murderers etc.
Targeting – slander,
discrediting
Isolation and interruption
of communication in prisons, colleges, revolutionary paramilitary movements
Rumour-mill.Intervention
Preparatory
Surrounding with
silence – shopkeepers silent to revolutionaries who are kept in silence (not
spoken to by some ) similarly, solitary confinement). Not spoken to by bus
drivers, not spoken to in labour exchanges but are spoken to (temporarily) in
employment usually in a gruff, aggressive and offensive manner.
Attacks on visitors to
'targets' e.g. running over by police vehicles to isolate.
The State. I
State and war .. von Clausewtz
… Imperialism …
military-industrial complex
State as organiser of
property relations
Policing .. political
policing … provocation .. state as armed body of men i.e. monopoly on violence
(Liberals)
Economic .. state as guarantor
against absolute poverty i.e. starvation.
State as provider of
means of subsistence .. public works
Ideological. State as
ideological member of capital, religion, education, … law
History
of the State
Covert. Philosophy of
the State,Hegel from without .. Marx the class society,change from without.Lenin without the state.
Engels, The Origin of
Family, Private Property and the state
Antithesis of the state
= communism i.e. abolition of classes
Ancient society
Slave society
Feudalism
Capitalism/imperialism
Development of trade
i.e. world market and commodity exchange gave rise to the capitalist state.
Transition to
capitalism out of the slogan of liberty, universal suffrage, “democratic republic”.
The State. II
Bolshevism
Reading
The State and Revolution. Lenin.(1916). Vol. 29 pp 470-88
The Origin of the Family, Private
Property and the State, Engels (M&E SW. Vol 3.)
On War, Von Clausewitz
Employment law, Smith & Wood
Employment Law in Britain and Europe,
Lord Wedderburn, L&W
Political Strikes, Peter Teain
Logic, Hegel
Philosophy of Right, Hegel, One
Leo Huberman, Man’s Earthly Goods
Company Laws and the Development of
Capitalism, Tom Hadden
Passages form Antiquity to Feudalism,
Perry Anderson
Lineages of the Absolutist State, Perry
Anderson
The Age of Revolution 1789 – 1848
The Age of Capital 1848 – 1875
The Age of Empire 1875- 1914
The Age of Extremes
ISJ No 54 A Callinicos
ISJ No 45 C Harman
R.H.Tawney, Religion and the rise of
Ideological Capitalism
The Guinea Pigs, McGuffin,Penguin
Political Murder in Northern Ireland,
Dillon
Political Policing in North America and
Latin America
Schizophrenia, Sacred Symbol of
Psychiatry (secular religious/cults), Thomas Szasz, Syracuse University Press
The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas Szasz,Pan
Occult Intelligence (Marx)
Police
theatre and psychology.
Police agents dress in colours on a
“stage” in targets’ houses/flats e.g. a shelf
Police and intelligence agencies through
their files and agents recruit lookalikes of different height and build to walk
past their target in the street in situations which will draw the attention of
the target.
Police suborn former members of
revolutionary groups to take part in targeting e.g. with promise of US visas.
Police play culminates in physical
attacks on the targets by drunkards, drug addicts and pushers, criminals etc.
Police try to wear down their target
through sensory deprivation and sleep deprivation e.g. banging heavy doors in
the night in a flat to simulate battle shock e.g. noise of artillery shells beneath the targets
or by playing tapes of babies crying or by playing tapes of voices of actors intimidating
the targets' associates or by procuring taxis to drop off passengers beneath the
windows of a target’s flat or by playing a recording of the sound of
high-heeled shoes in the flat beneath the target.
Note:
this sensory deprivation may require structured modification of the flat or
dwelling of a police tout in the immediate vicinity of that of the target.
Imprisonment
House arrest. Legal and extra-judicial (the “dictatorship of the bourgeoise”). Limited to outings once a day. Messages
relayed by lumpen elements who take up residence next door.
Star hambers (secret courts)
Employment ban i.e. ban on entering the
professions. Menial work allowed by way of exception, but only so long as the
police superintendent allows.
Poisoning with lysurgic acid (LSD) or
other tranquillisers to reduce target to a deeper low of inactivity and apathy
in the face of serious psychological torment.
Political Policing by J. Keane
Police
Measures
The south of Ireland is
hailed as a land of a modern economic miracle in a world which is ravaged by
economic crisis and an ideal holiday destination for the world’s tourists.
Republicans and socialists were driven out of the North in the eighties. They
found no trace of Irish hospitality or the land of a thousand welcomes when
they sought respite in the south.
In the late eighties, a
furious police repression gripped the south. The organ grinders of
imperialism, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States trained the
southern police and military in sensory deprivation. They were an avid audience
which was only too willing to put on a display of state power for those who
questioned the regime of rapacious exploitation in the south.
Socialists were hounded
from one abode to another. Police cars followed their every movement as they
sought employment as labourers. Every door was slammed in their faces. A squad
of thieves, prostitutes, drug addicts and the family members of the army and
police were thrown into action to intimidate, attack and disorientate the
socialists.
The army’s special
contribution to the police terror was to psychologically break the small groups
of class conscious voters. In blocks of flats e.g. Saint Teresa’s Gardens they
simulated the effects of 'shell shock' by banging heavy steel doors through the
night. The other residents had been moved out or they already enjoyed the luxury
of second homes and false identities. Taxi drivers were engaged to run their
engines under the windows of these flats. A noisy display was put on in an
otherwise deserted area. Effectively, socialists were under house arrest. The
dregs of society were joined by many of the shopkeepers – in this death by
silence, they refused to speak to the police target. Human intercourse and
communication was (for the police target) at a virtual zero.
A false world of
misleading impressions and insinuation was built up around police suspects.
Other socialists who offered support were similarly intimidated.
Thus regime of police
terrorism did not occur merely in the eighties. It was a fact of life for
communists from the 1930’s but gained a new intensity with the exploitation of Irish
labour, by American big capital. The British government played their part in
this furious assault.
The old revolutionary
parties were a source of information for the police, military intelligence and
the intelligence agencies who joined together to crush a country which was
going through a paroxysm of despair, exploitation and revolutionary unrest.
An important role in
this police repression was played by the local defence force (FCA). Over a
quarter of a million men in the south have been through the FCA and they and
their families are infected with the contagion of police repression. The
popular impression of the FCA as a group of drunken youngsters who go on
military training once a year is false and misleading. The shock troops of
reaction – whether it be police repression or state paramilitary measures – have always been drawn from the
lumpen proletariat – the filth of society – and the lower middle class, whether
the crisis is of the making of a political imposter such as Louis Napoleon in
France in the 1850’s where he called his lumpen battalions the Garde Mobile or
of Adolf Hitler in Germany in the 1920’s and 1930’s where the crumbling lower
middle class and degenerates were drafted into the ranks of the Sturm Abteilung
and Schutzstaffel. Those societies which are mired in profound social and
economic crisis know no other law than that of the jungle. Their politicians,
priests and judges repeat the mantra, “amid the clash of arms, the laws are
silent”. No legal redress was available.
Revolutionaries of one
shade or another have not simply been the target of police psychological
terror. The police have sent gangs like the Catholic Action to beat up
communists. In the 1940’s Geoff Palmer was thus attacked on O’Connell Bridge
and left for dead in one ear. Another form of police and military activity
which is designed to physically cripple revolutionaries draws on the world of
"occult intelligence" (Marx, Introduction to Capital,Volume 1). The police and military have the capacity to effectively
render useless a limb. They do this in a number of ways e.g. by jailing a
socialist, confining him in solitary, tearing off his prison garb, exposing him
to harsh temperatures in the colder seasons and frequently paying him a visit
in the night of confinement to tear off the meagre rags which they have left
him to shelter himself. Many old communists learned of these techniques in the
forties and let others know of the limited protection against them.
Psychological warfare
continues outside the prisons in the police occult. The police and military
have been trained by the CIA in other techniques which have as their aim the
disorientation of their targets. The police screen the FCA, army, the police
and criminals for persons who bear a resemblance to the suspects, their
families and their relatives.
Hairdressers groom
these soldiers, their wives and their families to assume the appearance of the
target's mannerisms and speech patterns are carefully studied. Accents and
dialects are mimicked. All clothes which are imported into the country are on
the police and state records – similar clothing is found to dress the police
offal. A parade of police lookalikes meets the target in the street. The effect
is to create a disorientating impression. At certain times a poignant police
verbal 'reminder' enters the isolated world of the police target.
Modern technology has
given a new dimension to these police measures. Telephone calls are routinely
intercepted to gain information. Voice coaches train the police agents to affect
the voice of police targets. The police then use these agents to make hoax
calls to their target to feed false information and gain valuable information.
Nuisance calls have also become a feature of police activity in the North of
Ireland. The police give their custodians the telephone numbers of their
targets and encourage them to make nuisance calls. The friends, relatives and
contacts of the target are intimidated. In the south of Ireland communication
between class conscious workers is hampered by the diversion of calls (and between a litigant and his lawyers).
The police forces and
armies of the capitalist countries which are under America’s heel have been
well trained in psychological warfare but their police measures draw on the traditions
of various countries. In Ireland, the family represents a powerful social
institution. The police and army try to employ the families of their 'targets' in
their repression. Wives, partners, husbands, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers
and so on are invited into police activity. A recent development in this
process is the use of psychiatric detention. Hospitals are for some
revolutionaries the new prisons. Today inexperienced youthful revolutionaries
often find themselves in mental crisis and are locked up. There is, however,
another dimension to this business.
In the 1950’s, the
Central Intelligence Agency experimented on prisoners and soldiers with the
laboratory hallucinogen, lysergic acid (LSD). In Ireland the CIA has used this
drug when they have infiltrated an agent into the immediate vicinity of a
police target. The use of barbiturates by the RUC was recorded in the early
1970’s in Newry. (The RUC’s hand-me-down remedies are no match for the
experience of the CIA.) (The Achilles heel of the revolutionary nationalists
was that they were not prepared to expose the CIA for their crimes and an avalanche
of repression and police/army murders in the North were facilitated by the poisoning
of the most advanced members of the old revolutionary movement).
Police
Action against Political Groups
Many revolutionary
groups have experienced, over the past one hundred and fifty years since the
birth of the socialist movement – the unwanted attention of police agents.
These are classified by the criminal lawyers as informants, paid informers,
agents provocateurs, and agents of influence. They play a key role, today, in
the neutralisation and policing of revolutionary groups.
Police agents are drawn
from the former soldiery, the part-time soldiers, the shopkeepers, the beggars,
former policemen, lazzarone, the criminal classes – in particular rent boys,
police prostitutes and the assorted offal of capitalist society. In the North
of Ireland, loyalist gangs and the Orange Order are fertile ground for police
recruits. The North is a part of Ireland which is united in profound political
crisis.
The most important
police agent in any group is the agent of influence. These agents are put in
place with care by the intelligence agencies i.e. the sewer police. Their task
is to provide information on the political developments and to attempt to
influence the decisions and the policy of revolutionary groups. Often, they
display a tendency to lead revolutionary groups which have limited practical
experience into politically compromising positions. The most insidious
development in recent revolutionary history has been the demand that sexual
freedom be included in the demands of the revolutionary parties. There is no
theoretical basis in revolutionary tradition or theory or practice for this
demand. The preaching of sexual freedom is calculated to utterly discredit the
revolutionary parties and groups which adopt this airy-fairy notion. The demand
for 'sexual freedom' ruined the International Working Men’s Association in the
United States in the last century. (In any case, the legal prohibitions on
homosexual activity was long ago removed from the statute book).
A much favoured trick
of the intelligence agencies and police is to use their agents in one political
group to spy on those of other political groups. They turned their most agile
agents into the service of one political group to gather information on a group
which they believe to be dangerous. In Ireland, the most dangerous political
group for the police and army, North and South, is the IRA. The police hounds
have a vociferous appetite for information on the IRA. (the Republicans are
revolutionaries of a socialist tinge. Their movement is strongest in the North
and despite minor periodic revivals in the south has run its revolutionary
course from the viewpoint of the overwhelming majority of Irish workers. Nevertheless,
Irish workers cherish the goal of national liberation.)
Let us move away from
the activities of police agents inside the small revolutionary groups and turn
back to the role of intelligentsia in class society. The universities,
libraries, media – tv, newspapers and radio and education system practise a
strict censorship of socialist theory and socialist practical activity. The
librarians have banned socialist literature including the works of an
exclusively scientific nature on economics from the libraries. They will allow
only sceptical publications in Irish libraries. There are occasional
exceptions to this unwritten police regulation.
The universities are
the finishing schools of the intelligentsia. They are staffed by the educated
representatives of the ruling class. The university libraries are the
storehouses of knowledge in every society. The university libraries in the
North of Ireland are largely stripped of any socialist literature. The
literature of a revolutionary nature is of purely historical interest. The hand
of the police is often seen in university censorship by inexperienced revolutionaries,
but this is not usually the true situation. The middle class pick their best
minds to staff the universities and they do not as a body tolerate the
intrusion of the socialist truth. The origin of censorship and the dissemination
of incomplete, botched and useless ideas in the university libraries is the work
of the middle-class intelligentsia.
The best students are
no longer rewarded with doctorates and first-class degrees. The most
class-conscious and best educated working class students are forced to run a gauntlet
of disciplinary measures, expulsion and suspensions. The Queen’s University of
Belfast was an open prison for revolutionaries in the sixties, seventies, and
eighties.
In the University of
Ulster campus at Jordanstown the political activity of socialists is
prohibited.
The electronic media is
a modern means of mass communication. Its role is to disseminate information on
behalf of the ruling class. Crime hysteria, nationalist passions; ethnic
hatred, religious fervour, idle gossip and sundry nonsense is disseminated
through this medium. (or idiots, there are programmes on animal psychology and
veterinary procedures). The current affairs programmes are a powerful medium
for the propaganda or ideas of the ruling class in the form of its politicians.
Social issues are given little coverage,the description of the capitalist economy
and its periodic crises are accorded an also-ran status.
Sensory Deprivation (1)
Drug disorientation.
LSD
Intimidation – throwing
stones at windows, breaking windows and vile abuse.
Slamming of neighbours’
doors after you pass them.
Police agents rushing
past the target to cultivate a feeling of unease and haste.
Police agents as
“actors” – hot and cold demeanour, nice and nasty.
Police agents help and
hinder information about background of other agents.
A parade of lookalikes
of lovers, relatives, comrades usually similarly dressed.
'Covering' behaviour.
Active disinformation – getting a target to believe that he is being protected
by persons who are in fact police agents.
Misinformation. Telling
target that certain persons are dead who had a formative influence on him/her.
Visions of the past and
future of target.Lookalikes who are taller, fatter, younger, older etc.
Misnomers. Shop
assistants called by different names by police agents who have carried out
regular surveillance to establish the movements of target.
Isolation and
observation/containment. A police agent always follows a target around the
workplace to establish who their friends and acquaintances are in order to
isolate them by spreading lies etc., while maintaining the apparition of
friendship.
Requirements. Mobile
communications e.g. mobile phones, police build up, control programmes,
infiltration of police/military agents, constant surveillance.
Sensory Deprivation (2)
House arrest. The
message “Out Once!”. Attacks by hoodlums. Dogs littering the entrance to the
targets house/flat. Trained to this by army dog handlers. Breaking of windows
by children in service of the police- paid by local shopkeepers.
Pretence of poverty by
police agents. Wear ragged clothes, drive clapped-out cars, claim to live in
public housing. Enjoy opulent lifestyles, have good houses and good clothes, in
reality.
False friends who
pretend to assist and socialise.
Agents within unions.
These agents are given the task of withholding membership cards so that there
is no record of union membership or franchise.
Isolation within
political parties. Different members are told to buy answer phones, police
intelligence feeds back information on numbers dialled by the target so that
agents of influence can intimidate them. Out of date phone numbers are fed to
the target when he seeks free legal assistance or contact with other members.
Numbers given out by police infiltrators are only of those with whom they are
in league.
Innuendo. Even
socialist magazines carry “secret messages” directed at a target to break
his/her morale.
Nuisance telephone
calls.
Agents who are
recruited – those whom the target has assisted," those to whom life has been
unkind", former revolutionaries, political agents.
Sensory Deprivation (3)
Social isolation. Shop
assistants are under police instructions not to speak first to targets.
They will simply state
the price of the goods purchased. They will never thank the customer for the
purchase of the goods.
Agency. Agency is the
basis of "occult intelligence". The police agents pretend to be agents of the
revolutionary organisation of which the target is a member.
Discrediting
target
sexual “misconduct”
financial “misconduct”
political “misconduct”
Treatment of 'targets'
after they have exhausted their usefulness. Criminalisation and imprisonment.
Physical injury. Pensions from civil service.
Theft from target cash
reserves.
Physical injury to
police targets. Overworking the target to lift heavy loads which will cause
spinal injury. Injuries to the legs of the target by imprisonment in solitary
confinement in a damp cell on an especially cold night. Head injuries – faked “accidents”
where the target falls on his head.
Targeting by
manipulation of the auditory and cognitive senses. Radio presenters are vetted
by the police .They must play tunes which are intended to manipulate the
sensitivities of the target.
Agency. The agent
'covers' himself/herself by witnessing purchases by the target by turning their
back to the target. They in turn feel 'covered' when the target is passing their
house once every 24 hours on the same side of the street twice.
Sensory Deprivation (4)
Economic damage.
Overcharging for essential materials and services.
Economic damage. Ban on
entering the professions. Exemptions on employment for persons who take up building
labourer’s employment.
Sexual entrapment.
Flirtatious harlots sent to entrap young revolutionaries – trained in the art
of flirtation in host country of intelligence agency.
Cuckholding targets.
Target is cuckholded by being left to rear the child of another partner of his
wife or partner.
Emotional deprivation.
The target is denied any emotional of sensual comfort. His amours are degraded
and abused and themselves targeted.
Interception of
communications. Letters, phone calls etc.
Occult Intelligence
House stake-outs –
Observation Posts’s
Telecommunications
Letter interception
Active disinformation –
police characterisations of revolutionary groups in dramas by professional
actors in the form of soap operas and films.
The Abuse of Psychiatry
The imprisonment,
murder, employment bans, bans on entering the professions, evictions,
isolation, censorship and manipulation are the well-known tools of the state in
its battle against those people who fight for profound social transformation.
All of these methods are commonplace in the North of Ireland where society is mired
in profound political, social and economic crisis.
Psychological warfare –
the occult art of the police/ army and political police – is an increasingly
important form of state terror as it pursues its campaign of suppression of
revolutionary organisations. In the North of Ireland, the British government is
pouring vast sums of money into policing of the open and violent type.
We shall focus on the psychiatry
as it manifests itself in Ireland as a whole. To all extents and purposes the
whole of Ireland falls under the sway of British and American capital (U.S.
concern for human rights in the North of Ireland is a hoax. The United States
is the disseminator of psychological warfare techniques).
When a person of
socialist views is targeted, the state is at both ends of the process. The army
and police in the south use covert measures to inflict psychological damage on
their target. Sleep deprivation and sensory deprivation are the preferred
options of the ruling class in the south. When these are to no avail, they
resort to the poisoning of their victims with drugs. One favoured substance
which is often used is lysergic acid (LSD). This is a legally prohibited substance
under the Misuse of Drugs Act in Britain and Ireland.
When the victim has
been reduced to a degree of insensibility and social incapacity – and the old
revolutionary parties usually cooperate in this process – the psychiatrists
inference with their blandishments and offer “rehabilitation”. They sign away
their charge’s future to a life of social isolation and misery. Their
“diagnosis” stigmatise the target as “schizophrenic”, “manic depressive
disorder” or “suffering from a personality disorder”. These “diagnoses” are the
“judgment” of the ruling classes of their targets.
In return for their
services, the psychiatrists are rewarded with a life of luxury – fine mansions,
luxurious cars and expensive holidays.
In Fermanagh – in the
North of Ireland – one psychiatrist is infamous for this police trickery. She
is doctor Diane Lody of Belcoo. Dr Cody is a person who appeared in the Tyrone
and Fermanagh Psychiatric Hospital in 1992. She had arrived from Dublin.
Strangely, she was
fully acquainted with the area of Dublin in which one of her “patients” had
been subjected to a regime of house arrest, psychological abuse, stabbing,
physical attack, sleep deprivation and sensory deprivation. This “patient” was
detained against their wishes and injected with drugs forcibly. The
recovery process from sensory deprivation requires a long-term period of rest
and socialisation. Psychotherapeutic treatment was refused when requested.
(Doctor Diane Lody did not revisit the specific features of the sensory
deprived in her charge despite frequent accounts of mental torture and physical
attack).
(It is useful, in this
instance, to note that after one physical attack in the period of 1990-91 the
hospital authorities in Saint James Hospital in Dublin refused to record the
fact that the police target had been attacked without provocation by a
well-known Dublin criminal, Gerry Cahill. They insisted on recording the
incident as a “fight” which implies that there was an element of joint
causation).
The police in Dublin
live an existence of relative abundance in a city which has an enormous
disparity of wealth and deep impoverishment. Their counterparts in the North
are equally privileged. Both societies are characterised by social decay and
growing political crisis. The psychiatrists are a feature of the state
repression of dissidents. The police profit from the shattering of the health
of the dissidents. The police agents in the political parties play their part
in the isolation of the police targets and the psychiatrists profit handsomely
from the forcible administration of mid-altering substances to the police
targets.
