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British RUC Collusion with loyalist killers - it goes right to the top
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Tuesday January 23, 2007 12:31 by Harry Wells - The Well, Well, Well Foundation
RUC Special Branch ran the UVF - report is tip of the iceberg The RUC ran the UVF in Belfast and in other parts of the North. RUC Special Branch let their agents in the UVF kill at will. They blocked arrests and tipped off the UVF to raids for arms and explosives. Brown, whose information is in O'Loan's report, also reveals how he obtained a taped confession from Ken Barrett, in which he explained how he shot Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in front of his family. RUC Special Branch sabotaged the investigation, stole the tape, tried to substitute a bogus alternative recording, and tried to frame Browne as a lier when he told the Stevens Enquiry some years later. Barrett was only arrested when he was tricked into repeating the confession on a BBC Panorama expose. The Police Ombudsman, Nual O'Loan's, report into collusion 0.73 Mb Independent report on Collusion by Notre Dame Law School 1.16 Mb |
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A twist on the collusion story
Flanagan - incompetent or culpable
He always presents himself as a bright chap - he looks a bit clueless now.
Special Branch in the RUC was the ‘force within a force’. Ronnie Flanagan was in charge while informers (one in five in the UVF was an informer) continued to kill at will. In fact, the RUC ran the UVF.
British military intelligence was also involved and set the UVF off on a course of sectarian killing in the 1970s, so as to change the character of the conflict from a fight against a British sectarian state to one of ‘warring communities’, with the unfortunate neutral British in the middle.
Classic British colonial practice – divide and rule.
British army operatives Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd broke with this policy in the 1970s and started spilling the beans then. The detail is emerging now - much of it is in the links in the main piece above.
Click on article to read it - Irish News, Jan 24 2007
Former head of RUC Special Branch well paid - as was UVF informer killer Mark Haddock (by 'Sir' Ronnie's RUC)