border in the irish sea did the british security services lay the groundwork for a united ireland we speak to a self-confessed m i 5 spy working undercover at the highest levels of shin fein over the mall coming up in today's going underground the 1st ones out this year we spoke to m.p.'s from both the d.p. engine fein about the return of good friday agreement local government to northern ireland we also was the shin fein m.p. from c. malloy about the history of his party during the troubles the subject of a new book by a self-confessed for m i 5 spy willie calling who confesses to working at the highest levels of sinn fein in the seventy's and eighty's well i said this in response to collins claim that some in the british government secretly wanted a united ireland well i think that at different times you have to find no no stature on the british government you said they would never talk to their aid and yet we find that behind the scenes the war talk and they read that they were trying to get a political settlement on their terms so i think the british government like any other government on a number different tangent at the same time william may have acted over exactly as

a thinking what a portent he was ever could i think in the mind of british intelligence with a car and worse and they keep their we also asked him about whether the ira is ill in control shion fane as alleged by government well i think if you look at the our party as a democratic organization a political organization to stand for election our members are that the 1st minister no was elected democratically and so with all our members with that we recently went through the west new selection where stabbing of our m.p. for a turned again so i think is old right here and a democratic organization well i'm now joined by the author of the book fathers' by my life as an m i 5 agent inside shin fein with the column willie welcome to going underground how come you're still alive and why is the book called thatcher's spy. it's going to sones friends but i think i'm a very lucky person. it's one of those things that

you know when you've been where i've been and you get taken note and you know you have had a lucky escape. as time goes on you miss the adrenaline because we lived on around and i lived around but i suppose the reason i'm a lady is i still practice. you know drive a known around both retains and going back the way i came or walking down the street . and look another certain the one the one i'm really looking across the street to see is behind me and. i don't know where i got the. name from i think was because there was i work and there's a soldier undercover and you know i don't really believe or think that i was an

important and then when i was taken note of terry and within 4 days i'm on mrs tice's jet leave in belfast to condi london and my family's you know my wife and my 2 sons and my daughter i think it's grieved. and i'm just sitting there thinking you know. this was plain to condon this way we use so stupid i'm going to get to and the shadowy m i 5 s s like the f. are you in a 2nd let's go back a bit and go back to how you became a spike as he left the army. and some ago alan rhys morgan said he has wanted you to go home and spy on your neighbors and friends put you in place before harold wilson is elected yes and why would you join the british colonial power that was responsible of as you say in the book they ran the are you see in particular raided

your own mother's a house well you're a catholic when i when i when i grew up on the craig in the state. there was no work for young men like me on your name for example would seem to get on the school you went to that you didn't get a job because of protestants round the system in the north so it was unusual for young men of my aids to join the army because our fathers have been in the army i mean i'm i was born in 1040 it's on a war p.c. and when i got to my regiment i discovered there were 25 young irishman the same as me who'd left fail fast and buried to join the british army so that was an unusual . ok it will be seen is it unusual may be on in derry around 177 the republicans they enter what you call an anti capitalist phase tell me about

you witnessing that because. you didn't seem to support their anticapitalist phases around the time the ira killed jeffrey i gate of du pont du pont of course in from as for supplying agent orange vietnam which killed a thing a war that killed 4000000 somebody made the decision some where the thumb people time the normal a's our society in north with big factories and lots of jobs was the wrong way to go on i remember really well being at home one night on a knock came to the door and my neighbor said to me there's a young guy here looking for your sister. and i think is trouble so we brought him and we looked after him as it turned out she was one of the people that was involved in the murder of geoffrey i get. i mean even his murder caused mayhem all the across america one when president carter even said he

knew it was a disgrace. dupont was a pentagon big bloke supplier so shortly after you met martin mcguinness you notice gerry adams is trying to promote him politically trying to get him away from the armed struggle tell me about. initially it was very in those with a cause martin martin was it was o.c. of northern command at the time. and we were we have records on the sort of like the tracks on the one hand shane finn was developing epis and it was in baby stage you do we were paper sellers we collected only for the present dependence on reserve. you know all the facing us is that. but it became noticeable after a while that gerry adams seemed to have this for say of want to take the movement down a different route. not necessarily to the peach route the turner road where they

could get some traction out of the british government and. indeed to get martin on board with it martin again as the long journey towards peace will never happen just so back then you're talking with these high powered people in the republican movement and they're what you're flying over to london and meeting stella rimington at a hotel in west london alan raised more been introduced her to me as more as i like very knowledgeable politics music of the tell me that heath won't last for wilson will be on again i mean you see. the f.r.u. which i'm trying to get you the 1st loosely allied to the s.a.'s of it the guy who ran it was going to gordon car of years yes but gee did you get the feeling that this colonel that alone siller rimington they were politically against wilson against the left knowing to know. all i knew was that

somewhere in the background behind the body politic there was a movement or a group of people who seem to think. this could lead to deification of ireland but we need to get these guys on board they need to be politics before we can deal with them because if we try to say a lot to the politicians they'll say they're terrorists we counted with them it's just it's difficult to explain. it's as if there were people behind the scenes who really wanted the unification of ireland and they seen this as an opportunity within the intelligence of absolutely absolutely i'm pretty sure they were denied because they then go on the record i think equally unbelievable arguably is that you were shocked at the murder of a census worker yes a young mother but this is in the context of saving

a 15 year old ball with was killed by the r.u.c. in april $181.00 around the time of joy and mothers there were times that. i had worked with what could be called divided loyalties always nightly sure here i was an undercover soldier trying to focus on what i was centered to but i kept seeing these things that contradicted the whole can a back story of what i. mean for example you enlisted in the air for you after that kill and yes what happened was i left m i 5 in 1980 december 1000 needed need just can't go back to shun financier listen i want to leave it to you just don't do it so the obvious sounds was on hunger strike on the election and from minus 0 to long came up and there was an effort to get them

elected and i spent a lot of time and for mana and soter on. canvas and put da posters get ready for the day of the election and i came home and i was sitting at home and. my mother said to me there's a young girl comment on the steps and i think she's crying so she went to the front door and let her and then she came and she was shaken. and it just became clear straight away that this young girl was a census collector. and that what happened was she had a clipboard and on the right hand save the clipboard was called in the scale the estate they lived on a republican area and it's all blocked i don't read or not to go near there this is the 981 british censors that republicans all across the 6 counties were told do not yell away with this colonial sense correct she was a young farmer's wife in fact she was doing what she was doing to earn

5 pounds a day and one day or a shot her they showed a young girl that was earning 5 friends of the she was killed for a fiver when bobby signed sans m p yes i don't hunger strike their streets named after him around the world did you meet bobby sands if you meet frances hughes no no but then names they meant nothing to you well in terms of any kind of revolutionary and dare you will never serve it out we never heard of bobby sands and fact i mean i don't even know it was green booked in other words if he was a fully fledged member of their. book but when he dated course shock waves in the north and everybody all around the world oh when people came from they said the cardinal from roll nice and politicians from dublin and from london. and amman francis's i remember there was something like

a 100000 people went of obvious answers you know there were francis she stayed. there was a concerted effort to make sure that there was that cadence of a night so. the body was ordered to be taken away to his family all no one was allowed to get near it it was buried with just a few 100 people at the gravesite and it was said bell on the b.b.c. it will break and the support is staying away will stop you there more from will he call him and my 5 agents after this break. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida you know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it is healing messes with your head what happens to the community the

public was screaming for a scapegoat the police need is a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court. shocked shocked as far off society we feel. we don't know she'll share this truth. and to destroy unfortunately you. will still not know she'll just. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back i'm still with former and i 5 agent with a column are here what is the force research unit you are their asset i don't know what they paid you if you tell who they paid you what exactly is the force research unit there have been submissions of the united nations about it as a death scored the 1st assertion that was. the team of people that worked call very early on the growing behind the backs of the british army no initially it was thought it was set up to gather information and to run agents g.e. and for trade theory to infiltrate even the e.v.f. and their own agents and gather intelligence but as time went on agents that were working for the furry who were volunteers were to be caught and compromising positions. there were all the agents in the same

unit so no we had to be agents both both free informers on inevitably what happened was one star of the kill the other was science crazy but it did happen and eventually we get the steak knife. it was also a free agent and he has no now and it turned freddie's scupper teachy steak knife denies it well of course you would. save your life that they'll never get going to say there's no they'll never get a man to court because the minister of defense the one i'm in court because if he goes into court and he starts to talk about information he passed to the free pass to his 100 peter they passed it to colonel care they passed it to the minister of defense i mean her a op does this go from here we have a guy who is an a or a man. killing ira volunteers. and

a low to do it then and get on with an exaggeration to say that one in 4 members of the ira around this time were members of the british security services i would say $300.00 agents yeah i mean i would say that towards the end whenever we got very close to the good friday agreement when mcginnis and mountains and everybody was running the table i believe that martin was short and or a devoted way the state of play on the groaned within the ira not names but just roughly how many people in the area right off to the top are british agents and i think he knew them you know the ratings on the war were not going to one as and i think that's way the same dop and this is whilst m i 5 are being infiltrated by the russians they have agents their own agents killing

each other whilst being in the ira yes and all the time your working in that is and thinking this is a job well i mean a. i was in the difference aid i was on the i was on the political side for the one thing you learn a version failed on the ira even today is that the higher up you go with fear the next thing you know you're setting up meetings astonishing fin meeting anymore it's often enough is sitting where they are a volunteers the set was a are a commander's you know. that's when you realize these 2 are want i mean even today we've got the peace process we've got mary lou mcdonald we got michelle in need we've got all these people but the ira army consul are still in place the area army consul is there the of the republican movement and they dictate what happens with them the political opposition very completely deny that so the f.o.

you're going back to this because this is a submission to the united nations i mean 864 civilians were killed around this time by loyalist paramilitaries and linked to the air for you estimates therefore he was responsible for 15 dead do you do you think there could be any truth was it a death squad you were working for many of the understand that. my understanding is that steak knife would where possible tell us under the i'm going to get this guy because we have an information that is an informer american interrogate them there were times when he got there the guy was gone but there were times when he got there at the person was there and he was able to left them interrogate them and shoot a ny varies their issued live in their way wasn't removed i mean how do you think about the fact that the family that we do of pat finucane the civil rights lawyer

who represented people on both sides of the community when invited to downing street david cameron took her aside by the window and said there are dark forces in this british establishment and this is i've done more for you than any other prime minister would the trying to get to the bottom of the most people believe british state sanctioned murder of a civil rights lawyer well of course i mean the guy in new vs. expertise army. is the one that went and shot the nikken. and he was an agent of the free. eventually was taken out of the north of ireland. when he was on trial they dropped the murder charts and they went for conspiracy to murder he was flown out of the natick out of belfast after 4 years in prison and. it was really should be prosecuted it was well they count settled in carter and he died and

falling off during any of his so since did again the one should be prosecuted for these historical crimes against the un charter as a very difficult question. it's one of those things that i mean if you're the father of a mole or of someone who was murdered in the north of course you know you want justice on at the same time if that leads or could lead to things open up in the way is fear there are. people and politics don't want. to be to mrs thatcher took a special interest in the air for you group you outlined the fact that she was specifically interested in in this group she would have been aware of these atrocities she would have been briefed that the war against terrorism has been won

and that there is a unit on the growing gallery intelligence and knowledge and also the f.r.u. did deals with apartheid south africa did you ever have a gun the african can know that you know of any air for you people that had south african guns you know there's been a lot of stuff about how arms smuggling was done with the connivance of m i 5 these are the allegations from arms traders and from apartheid south africa or arms corps the obviously fighting males mandela this is a learned thing that ever had i ever notice was i mean as the old soldier i mean i knew we had s n g's in the brain things but some of the hundreds i had an affair he had very strange looking weapons and they certainly weren't weapons of war issued by the british government i'm going to get on to talk about omar and i mean there has been previous allegations about f.b.i. links to bomb making that was used by the f you you talk about

cia involvement. in effect in the omagh bombing 300 injured 29 dead. and of course the allegation that you make and others have made is that the r.u.c. were tipped off about the omar bombing ahead of time no doubt in my mind. peter kelly a as known as kevin fulton. he was a young soldier in the areas rangers lived in neary and he was in the area and his recruiters by the force for search and to inform on his colleagues and. he was full on to america where he was 3 and in 02 producers of last fall mean in that. there's a bomb that goes off and then when the. the r.u.c.

turn up with their so-called team seems a crime of theirs and they start to take photographs flass camera sets off the bomb and kills more people so he was $3.00 and 0 to do that and he was the one that invented in the north he also. be working with the real or ever sam a 5 that took a moat to the north i think what they were looking for was for kevin to get more steam with than the unity was and so it because you know promoted and higher up in the movement and as far as he was concerned he was working over the border near nana he was making bombs in the bombs or just been sent up into the north. on one occasion he was involved in making a bomb and a car came from the republic of ireland collected on the conversation he overheard led him to believe that this bomb was called duma. he got in touch with his handler and he told us under no easy officer that he believed there was going to be

a bomb attack on norma no i've been present with peter clearly when he formed the handler i asked him do you remember i told you about the bomb and clearly you could hear is unders in yes i do remember it well i have to check my notes to find the information no strange thing has. the people who partake aaron will not put it in the wrong place they put or that the ball on the street instead of the top of the street so when the ball there came and all the people were driven going towards the ball towards the car and that's why so many people were killed but as far as peter was concerned he warned the hour you see that that was going to happen just as if the british government as he denies any involvement in the bomb completely the u.v.'s were also set up by aces in the free korea tommies in dublin the korea time it's a man to try and bring these forces together loyalists in the provinces in the

north wanted more police and army on the border to stop ira volunteers bring in bombs over the border to place in strategic positions in the north and they tried to force the republic's government to put boots on the ground to put army on the grow and put police on the growing arms because they weren't are because if you had infiltrated the gutta absolutely in southern ireland yes and the thing was when someone got the bright idea that. these bonds these musical bonds that are common from the republic to the north they might be carrying arms and ammunition over the border for the area to collect when they're in the north the famous miami shobhana answer and i know you're over there as well well the u.d.r. . the soldiers involved got their uniforms from it was alleged from members of the

force of search and. they stopped them a army van on this way down over the border got them all that the bomb went off to certain the static and the speakers cause the pointy walling off too soon or in the wrong place there were no rules here you know everybody was doing what they thought they could do to to help this thing called to an end and there was a view that their new way this i'm going to calm down and it's got to get worse before it gets better and that seemed to be the view you know the british government were involved the minister the defense were involved the r.e.c. were involved i mean. all the evidence though because you're saying this to me you think all the evidence would have been burnt and some of the documentation here is not for release to 2049 some of the killings on these legacy issues do you think most of the evidence of the kind that would support your allegations of such atrocities wells all are destroyed. john stocker when he led the 1st

investigation and the stake they found the f.r.u. . he he was tainted by having all of these were some they say this was a deliberate security services are excellent and john stevens comes along and he is doing well and he gathers the evidence and the evidence is burned down in the middle of night all the files all all 0 understanding of the john stevens inquiry office they did save the papers apparently it was a for you job dollar and down his office if you speak to him the 1st it was in the force of certain here going to take my he will tell you that it was an attack from . ford and count that were sent over to burn not property i got to ask you know about the book itself did you know i have to get it vetted where the dino just man i gotta say my program completely on vetted by dean or does this guy dino just secretary have a sponsor andrew violence yeah well you were the book and cut out most of it well i have to say there's

a lot in it that you wouldn't expect to be we really we thought that when it went up to the treasurer's listener so that the intelligence and security committee could look at it we thought that most of them were very redact that we would be allowed to publish. although i have to say you know here we have a lawyer sitting in london and he's paid to do a job. whatever he feels should be taken and then my 5 lawyer yes so at the same time you've got these m.p.'s because that's what they are sitting on the intelligence and security committee a lot of them were very very little experience of the north and i don't think they would real lace by letting all others go that it was going to cause more going because yes absolutely when the collins thank you that's it for the show will be back on wednesday 14 is the day evil moran is was inaugurated as the 1st indigenous president of bolivia he's currently claiming asylum in argentina undernourished you . backed right wing coup forced him from power which will then get into

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