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1987
March Gerard Logue Londonderry IRA/accident
April Lawrence Marley Belfast UVF
April Finbar McKenna Belfast IRA/accident
May Patrick Kelly Armagh SAS
May James Lynagh Armagh SAS
May Anthony Gormley Armagh SAS
May Padraig McKearney Armagh SAS
May Declan Arthurs Armagh SAS
May Seamus Donnelly Armagh SAS
May Eugene Kelly Armagh SAS
May Gerard O’Callaghan Armagh SAS
August Eamonn Maguire S. Armagh IRA/informer
October Eddie McSheffrey Londonderry IRA/accident
October Paddy Deery Londonderry IRA/accident
Total 78
HUNGER STRIKERS
Date Name Place
1981
May Bobby Sands Maze
May Francis Hughes Maze
May Patsy O’Hara (INLA) Maze
May Raymond McCreesh Maze
June Joseph McDonnell Maze
July Martin Hurson Maze
July John Dempsey Maze
August Kieran Doherty Maze
August Tom McElwee Maze
August Kevin Lynch (INLA) Maze
August Michael Devine (INLA) Maze
Total 11
INLA
Date Name Place Organization Responsible
1977
December Colm McNutt Londonderry 14 Company
1978
March Thomas Trainor Armagh Loyalists
June James McConnell Londonderry Army
1980
October Ronnie Bunting Belfast Loyalists
1981
May James Power Maze H/strike
May Emmanuel McLarnon Belfast Army
1982
December Seamus Grew Tyrone RUC/HMSU
December Roddy Carroll Tyrone RUC/HMSU
1983
February Liam McMonagle Londonderry 14 Company
August Brendan Convery Tyrone RUC
August James Mullan Tyrone RUC
1984
June Paul McCann
1987
February Tony McCloskey Armagh INLA/feud
February Michael Kearney Belfast INLA/feud
March Thomas Maguire S. Armagh INLA/feud
March Gerard Steenson Belfast INLA/feud
March Fergus Conlon S. Armagh INLA/feud
March Emmanuel Gargan Belfast INLA/feud
March Kevin Duffy S. Armagh INLA/feud
October Jim McDaid S. Armagh INLA/feud
Total 19
Accidental Killings During SAS Operations
Date Name Place
1978
June William Hanna Belfast
July John Boyle Antrim
September James Taylor Tyrone
1984
October Fred Jackson Tyrone
1987
April Oliver Hughes Armagh
1988
July Ken Stronge Belfast
Total 6
Members of 14 Intelligence Company Killed by Republican Terrorists4
Date Name Place
1974
April Captain Anthony Pollen Londonderry
1977
December Corporal Paul Harman Belfast
1978
August Lance-Corporal Alan Swift Londonderry
1984
February Sergeant Paul Oram Antrim
Total 4
Members of the SAS Killed by Republican Terrorists5
Date Name Place
1980
May Captain Richard Westmacott Belfast
1984
December Lance-Corporal Alastair Slater Fermanagh
Total 2
Republican Terrorists Killed by Security Forces in Total
Organization Responsible Number killed
14 Company of IRA/INLA 7
SAS of IRA 25 (1983–87: 18)
Other Army of IRA 9 (1983–87: 2)
1The classification ‘IRA/informer’ includes those killed by the organization itself for alleged informing. In some cases those killed may not in fact have been passing information to the security forces.
2 Members of 14 Intelligence Company may also have opened fire during this incident.
3 Some sources suggest that soldiers from 14 Intelligence Company, not the SAS, were involved in this incident. I do not believe this is correct.
4 I have listed only those who I am confident belonged to this unit. However, there have been a number of army casualties who may have been members of 14 Company, but the evidence is uncertain. It is therefore safest to say simply that the unit had lost at least four soldiers in action by 1987.
5 Two members of the SAS died in car accidents while serving in Northern Ireland: Staff Sergeant David Naden was killed in 1978 and Corporal Tommy Palmer in 1983.
Appendix II Development of Covert Operations Units
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Index
Abercrombie, Alexander, 1, 2
Active Service Units see ASUs
Adams, Gerry, 1, 2, 3; and Northern Command, 1;
and restructuring of IRA, 1, 2;
attempt on life of (1984), 1, 2, 3;
sees value of using Sinn Fein politically, 1, 2;
and Lean, 1;
and Loughgall, 1
‘Aggressive OP’, 1
Airborne Forces, 1
Airborne Reaction Force, 1
Aldergrove, 1
Aldershot, 1
Allen, William, 1
Ambush: The War Between the SAS and the IRA (Adams et al), 1, 2
Amnesty International, 1, 2, 3
An Phoblacht/Republican News, 1, 2, 3, 4
Andersonstown, Belfast, 1
Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985), 1, 2, 3, 4
Archer, Peter, 1
Ardboe, County Tyrone, 1, 2, 3
Ardoyne, 1
Ardoyne IRA, 1
Armagh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Army Air Cor
ps, 1, 2
Arthurs, Brian, 1, 2
Arthurs, Declan, 1, 2
Asher, Michael, 1, 2, 3, 4
ASUs (Active Service Units), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Atkins, Humphrey, 1
B Special reserve, 1
Baker, Albert, 1, 2
Ball, Captain Julian, 1, 2, 3
Ballygawley police station, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ballykinlar, County Down, 1, 2, 3
Ballymoney police station, 1
Ballymurphy IRA, 1
Ballysillan Post Office depot incident (1978), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Belfast: and ‘No Go Areas’, 1; brigade headquarters, 1;
SPG squads in, 1;
IRA in, 1, 2, 3;
and Harman incident, 1;
Bronze Section operates in, 1;
and UDR recruitment, 1;
and Ballysillan incident, 1;
and ‘undercover’ operations, 1;
and SAS, 1;
and Army Air Corps, 1;
and Mahon affair, 1, 2;
and RUC band incident, 1, 2;
shooting of betting shop robbers in, 1, 2
Belfast Brigade (IRA), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Belfast Detachment (14 Intelligence Company), 1
Belfast Telegraph, 1, 2
Belgium, 1
Bell, Ivor, 1, 2
Benburb, Tyrone, 1
Bennett, Harry, QC, 1
Bennett, Joseph, 1, 2
Bennett Report (1979), 1, 2
Bessbrook, south Armagh, 1, 2, 3, 4
Bessbrook Support Unit (BSU), 1
Bettaney, Michael, 1
Birmingham Six, 1
Bishop, Patrick, 1
Black, Christopher, 1, 2, 3
Black and Tans, 1
‘black propaganda’ campaigns, 1, 2
Blair, Lieutenant Colonel David, 1.
Bogside area, Londonderry, 1, 2, 3, 4
Bohan, Corporal Alan, 1, 2, 3
Bourn, John, 1
Bourn Committee, 1
Boyle, Con, 1, 2
Boyle, Harry, 1
Boyle, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Boyle, Mrs, 1
Boyne, battle of the, 1
Bradley, Francis, 1, 2
Bramley, Patrick, 1, 2
Bramshill, Surrey, 1
Brandywell, Londonderry, 1, 2
Brecon Beacons, 1
Breslin, Charles, 1, 2
Brighton bombing (1984), 1, 2
BRINTON project, 1
Britain, bombing campaign, in, 1
British Army: and SAS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, committed to NI (1969), 1, 2, 3;
and Special Branch, 1, 2, 3, 4,
increased undercover operations, 1, 2;
overt presence on streets resented, 1;
relationship with RUC, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
numbers peak (1972), 1;
army casualties peak, 1;
distrust of UDR, 1;
specialist units, 1;
sets up new élite surveillance unit, 1, 2;
and IRA use of military terminology, 1;
Gardai refuses to deal with, 1;
estimate of Provisionals’ strength, 1;
experience with MRF, 1, 2, 3; 4
Intelligence Company recruits from, 1;
and surveillance duties, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and Special Patrol Group, 1;
UVF/UDA street confrontations with, 1;
nationalists’ stereotype of, 1;
and the courts, 1, 2, 3;
and new coroners’ rules, 1;
and lying to press, 1;
and TCGs, 1, 2, 3;
and DCI, 1, 2;
and informers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
jamming signals, 1;
communications, 1;
computerized records, 1;
and WIU, 1;
decrease in strength, 1;
as IRA target, 1;
increases troop strength (1986), 1;
and IRA death statistics, 1;
improved behaviour (1980s), 1
British Army Information Policy Unit, 1
British Army Legal Service, 1, 2, 3
British Army of the Rhine, 1
British Army Press Office, 1, 2, 3, 4
British embassy, Dublin, 1
British Security Services Organization (BSSO), 1, 2
Broderick Report, 1
Bronze Section, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Brown, Bobby, 1
Brown, Denis, 1
Brunei, 1, 2
Buckley, Herbert, 1, 2
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), 1, 2
Bundesnachrichten Dienst (BND), 1
Bunting, Ronnie, 1, 2
Burns, Sean, 1, 2
C Branch (MI5), 1
Calcutt, David, 1
Campbell, Brian, 1, 2
Campbell, Duncan, 1
Cappagh, 1, 2
Capper and Lambe, 1
Carrickmore, 1
Carrickmore police station, 1, 2
Carroll, Roddy, 1
Carroll, Owen, 1
Carson, Sir Edward, 1
Carver, Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4
Castlederg station, 1
Castlereagh, near Belfast, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chiswell, Major General Peter, 1
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 1
CID (Criminal Investigations Department), 1, 2; takes over interrogation of suspects, 1, 2, 3;
and Special Branch, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
improved results, 1;
and TCGs, 1;
and Armagh killings (1982), 1;
Whiteside in charge of, 1;
and McMonagle/Duffy incident, 1;
and Gransha shootings, 1;
and Loughgall incident, 1
Clark, James, 1, 2
‘clean kill’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Cleary, Peter, 1, 2, 3
Clements, Reserve Constable William, 1, 2
Close Observation Platoons (COPs), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Coagh shootings (1991), 1, 2
Coalisland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Coldstream Guards, 1
Conservative Party, 1, 2
Cookstown, 1
Cooper, Frank, 1
Cornamucklagh, 1
coroners, amended rules for (NI), 1
Coroners’ Courts, 1
Corr, John, 1, 2
Costello, Seamus, 1
‘counter-gangs’, 1, 2
County Londonderry, 1
County Tyrone, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Coyle, Kevin, 1
Crawley, John, 1
Creasey, Lieutenant General Timothy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Creggan estate, Londonderry, 1, 2, 3
Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) (1967), 1
Crockard, James, 1
Crossan, Declan, 1, 2
Crossmaglen, 1, 2, 3, 4
CRUCIBLE, 1
Crumlin Road jail, Belast, 1, 2
Culderry, 1
Daly, Edward, RC Bishop of Derry, 1
Daly, Miriam, 1
Defence, Ministry of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 1
Derry Brigade (IRA), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
detention orders, 1
Devine, David, 1, 2
Devine, Michael, 1, 2, 3
Dillon, Martin, 1, 2
Diplock courts, 1
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), 1, 2
‘dirty protest’, 1, 2
Dirty War, The (Dillon), 1
disinformation, 1, 2, 3, 4
Divis flats, Belfast, 1
Divisional Mobile Support unit (DMSU), 1, 2, 3, 4
Doherty, Daniel, 1, 2, 3
Donegal, 1, 2, 3
Donnelly, Seamus, 1, 2
drogue bombs, 1
Drumm, Jimmy, 1
Drumrush Lodge, 1
Drumnakilly in
cident (1988), 1
Dublin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Duddy, Inspector Norman, 1
Duff, Anthony, 1, 2
Duffy, Liam, 1
Duffy, Patrick, 1, 2, 3, 4
Duffy, Paul, 1, 2
Dungannon, Tyrone, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Dungannon Provisional IRA, 1
Dunley, County Antrim, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
DUP (Democratic Unionist Party), 1
Düsseldorf, 1, 2
E1, E2, E3, E3A, E3B, E3C (Special Branch), 1
E4, 1, 2
E4A, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
E4B, E4C, E4D, E5, 1
Eakra, 1
east Tyrone, 1, 2, 3, 4
Easter Rising (1916), 1, 2
Ebrington Barracks, Londonderry, 1
8 Brigade (Londonderry), 1, 2
Emergency Tour (Morton), 1
English, Charles, 1
Enniskillen speech (Hermon, 1980), 1, 2, 3
Enniskillen Remembrance Day explosion (1987), 1
F Branch (MI5), 1
F3 (MI5), 1
F5 (MI5), 1
Fahy, John, 1
Falklands War (1982), 1, 2
Falls Road, Belfast, 1, 2
Farrell, Mary, 1
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1, 2
Ferris, Martin, 1
Field Research Unit (FRU), 1, 2
Fleming, Kieran, 1, 2
Fleming, William, 1, 2, 3, 4
Forbes, Mary, 1
Forbes, Trevor, 1, 2, 3
Forbes factory, Ardboe, Tyrone, 1
Forkill, 1
4 Field Survey Troop (cover name of 3 Brigade Detachment, 14 Intelligence Company), 1, 2, 3
Four Square Laundry, 1
14 Intelligence and Security Company (14 Intelligence Company; 14 Company; 14 Int), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
‘Freds’, 1, 2, 3
FRU (Field Research Unit), 1, 2
Future Organisation of Military Intelligence in Northern Ireland (Glover), 1
Galbally, near Dunganon, 1
Gardai, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9