Intelligence services

“Touting” and the ethics of gathering information…

Fr. Martin Magill on August 16, 2018, 7:47 pm

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A number of years ago the Andersonstown News carried on a front page headline the phrase: “Ten Pound Touts.” “Ten Pounds Touts” was a reference to what was perceived at the time (and indeed is still perceived by some people) as the practice by the RUC/PSNI of recruiting as informers (touts) young people involved in car crime, anti-social behaviour, or low level crime. These youths were/are given small amounts of money for doing this – allegedly as little as a …

“as head of British intelligence, you would be derelict in your duty if you did not do everything in your power to assist that process…”

Pete Baker on April 4, 2016, 2:09 pm

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Via the Pensive Quill. In this transcript of a discussion on Radio Free Éireann in New York, with John McDonagh (JM) and Martin Galvin (MG), veteran journalist Ed Moloney (EM) has some “stupid” questions for the leadership of Sinn Féin, British Intelligence Services, and the local media. From the transcript EM: There’s a whole untold story of the peace process in the latter years of the IRA’s existence in relation to the influence of British intelligence – to what extent that was …

“what now on those big questions on arms and on the past?”

Pete Baker on May 10, 2011, 5:17 pm

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In the Belfast Telegraph, Brian Rowan with a reminder of some unfinished business. The publication of the two reports he mentions was postponed, before the elections, until “a date to be agreed by both Governments”. From the Belfast Telegraph article At an event at Queen’s University recently, I said there won’t be a truth process here. There may be something dressed up as such a process, but it won’t be about truth and the many hidden secrets of war. Governments don’t want it, the security …