[Marxism] RE: Recent events in Ireland.

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Didn't the 1974 testimony of the Littlejohn Brothers, two English-born
counterintelligence operatives in Northern Ireland, reveal that British
Intelligence itself had masterminded over a dozen bank robberies in ther
North and South of Ireland to trigger a crackdown on the supposedly (but not
if one is to believe British intelligence's own estimation at the time)
'criminal' IRA?

cheers.


DOC WROTE:

> On 26th December last, £26.5 million was stolen from the Northern Bank in
> Belfast. It was a largest robbery ever conducted in Ireland (or indeed in
> Britain). The British authorities and the Irish state authorities have both
> pinned the blame on the Provisional IRA and used this as a smear to assault
> the Peace Process and Sinn Fein's central place in it. No evidence has been
> provided to substantiate the claim only the word of the chief constable of
> Britain's police force in Ireland, the PSNI. The hypocrisy of parties such
> as Fianna Fail and the Democratic Unionists joining a chorus with the
> British government decrying Irish Republicans for alleged robbing banks is
> heinous given their own associations with corporate crime and in
> underpinning continued inequality and sectarian division in our country.

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