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.

Former RUC detective, Johnston Browne, opens his account of his years in the RUC, Into the Dark with a description of a vicious beating - his own from RUC colleagues, in an RUC barracks. His 'crime' was to arrest an armed gang of UVF members.

Former RUC Special Branch and Chief Constable 'Sir' Ronnie Flanagan in the frame

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.

See transcript of two-part Panorama programmes here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/2019301.stm

In Armagh the RUC were the UVF.

They engaged in sectarian killings, explosions and generalised sectarian harassment and oppression. The Miami Showband massacre of 1975 and the Dublin Monaghan bombings of 1974 are among their claims to fame (or infamy). The SAS in the form of 14th Intelligence aided and abetted this collection of RUC killers, that included John Weir and Billy McCaughey who later confessed to their part. Recently, Weir revealed that he is still under threat from his former employers for spilling the beans on British involvement in organising death squads.

Last week the PSNI Historical Enquiry team apologised to Eugene Reavey for RUC allegations that Reavey was involved in the January 1976 Kingsmillls Massacre of ten Protestant civilians, an accusation that was promoted by Ian Paisley in Westminster in 1999 (and that still appears on unionist websites). Reavey’s three brothers had been killed by an RUC-UVF gang the day before the Kingsmills massacre, three of six nationalists shot dead that day. After Reavey had completed a report to the RUC on the killing of his brothers, one of them commented that they weren’t shot for nothing, they must have been involved in something. Then the malicious RUC whispering campaign against Eugene Reavey started. Reavey noted that it was the RUC themselves who were ‘involved’ and launched a 20 year campaign to get the truth.

See for information on this:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74511

All the evidence for systematic collusion is now to hand, and it is now also “official”.

The Police Ombudsman’s report is attached here, as is an independent report into collusion by the Law School at Notre Dame University.

See also the Oireachtas reports into collusion at:

http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?fn=/documents/Comm...s.htm

See also for more information on the killing of Pat Finucane and other killings directed by British forces at.

http://www.patfinucanecentre.org

See for info on British-loyalists attacks on the south

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80134
and
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80012

The latest O’ Loan report is the tip of the iceberg. The can of worms is pouring out.

The Police Ombudsman, Nual O'Loan's, report into collusion 0.73 Mb

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Ian Paisley should say "Sorry!" to Eugene Reavey

by Harry

Wed Jan 24, 2007 16:50

'Ian Paisley should say "Sorry!" to Eugene Reavey' is at:

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80602

A twist on the collusion story

Was Flanagan incompetant or culpable - what did the British Army do?

Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:33

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)

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