Smithwick and the murky outline of British counterinsurgency tactics…

As Brian Rowan said on Sunday Sequence last Sunday, the British counterinsurgency campaign was a dirty war. Richard Dowling reinforces that view, though also points out that it is and never was as black or white as we are often led to believe by some of the chief protagonists. In the case of British Peter Keeley (aka Kevin Fulton), he notes: In later years he worked for CID and the customs service. He told his handlers about planned IRA operations …

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