Smithwick Tribunal Into Garda Collusion - Scapaticci to be Represented

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British intelligence services were operating all over Ireland and were receiving information from politicians, as well as members of the gardaí, the army and customs service, the Smithwick Tribunal has been told.

Well there's a surprise!

What did anybody think MI6 and MI5 was spending all those millions on?

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Well there's a surprise!

What did anybody think MI6 and MI5 was spending all those millions on?

The childlike gullibility and credulousness of naive Paddies is touching alright. Like one of those dopey dogs with a brutal owner, always going over with the wagging tail looking for a pat on the head, getting a kick every time, and never quite figuring it out.

They weren't spending millions on the touts anyway, that traitor cop in Hurst's evidence was getting paid "50 or 60 quid". What has always amazed me about these stories is just how cheap it has always been to buy a Paddy. Maybe all the millions were being hoovered up by a certain Mr P B A though, we all know how he loved his suitcases full of Sterling.

Nothing new in any of this though, didn't the Brits in their usual obfuscated roundabout way admit a long long time ago that they had an agent with full access to Lynch's Cabinet Meetings around 68-73? I'm pretty sure I know who that agent was too.

After 1973 and the Cosgrave govt came in they wouldn't have needed a paid undercover agent of course

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The childlike gullibility and credulousness of naive Paddies is touching alright. Like one of those dopey dogs with a brutal owner, always going over with the wagging tail looking for a pat on the head, getting a kick every time, and never quite figuring it out.

They weren't spending millions on the touts anyway, that traitor cop in Hurst's evidence was getting paid "50 or 60 quid". What has always amazed me about these stories is just how cheap it has always been to buy a Paddy. Maybe all the millions were being hoovered up by a certain Mr P B A though, we all know how he loved his suitcases full of Sterling.

Nothing new in any of this though, didn't the Brits in their usual obfuscated roundabout way admit a long long time ago that they had an agent with full access to Lynch's Cabinet Meetings around 68-73? I'm pretty sure I know who that agent was too.

After 1973 and the Cosgrave govt came in they wouldn't have needed a paid undercover agent of course

Oh! they spent money alright ......... half the journalists in Ireland were on their payroll..... and many still are.

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Well there's a surprise!

What did anybody think MI6 and MI5 was spending all those millions on?

From the BBC link -

The tribunal also heard that British intelligence services collected information on a 32-county basis, and had sources in the Republic ranging from a senator to revenue and customs officials and members of the Irish army and gardai.

There was a very Senior Guard, subsequently sacked by the new Fianna Fail government, who was let sit in position for years by FG/Lab, although known to have had links with the Dublin Monaghan bombers.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18359653

Retired Garda Corrigan strongly denies the allegations about his role -

Mr Corrigan told the tribunal that when Mr Donaldson made those remarks under parliamentary privilege, he was accompanied that day by Kevin Fulton, whom he described as "a reject from the British army" and "a fantasist".
Also there was campaigner Willie Frazer, whom Mr Corrigan said had "caused a riot when he came here with his Love Ulster parade".
The car in which Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan were murdered
Mr Corrigan gave a strong defence of his time in An Garda Siochana.
He said he had served the State loyally for 36 years and claimed he had "contributed more than any other member of An Garda Siochana to peace in our land".
Under questioning by legal counsel for the tribunal Justin Dillon, he said he took extended sick leave from the gardai in 1989 before retiring three years later because he had been ill-treated following a "change of regime" in the Dundalk station, when his "power base collapsed".
Mr Corrigan was being investigated for nine alleged breaches of discipline, including unauthorised use of official vehicles and being absent without leave from his duties on two occasions in July and August 1989.
On one of those occasions, RUC informer John McAnulty was abducted from a bar and murdered.
Mr Corrigan said he took "grave exception" to anyone questioning his loyalty.

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It was all hard enough to follow before this -

The inquiry has focused on former garda officers Owen Corrigan, Leo Colton and Finbarr Hickey, who deny passing information. A lawyer for one of the three men accused the PSNI of a "shameful injustice" by keeping hold of information that has now pointed the finger at a separate individual.
With the inquiry drawing to a close the Buchanan family said: "It has been mentioned earlier that there was disappointment that this intelligence material was withheld for possibly seven years
"A close review of the transcript of the evidence and consideration of the change of 'primacy' relating to intelligence following the St Andrews Agreement suggests that while the material was obtained by the PSNI it would undoubtedly have been under the control of the Security Services in London. The Buchanan family would seek clarification on this point."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/cross-borde...125221545.html