Catholic priest's involvement in bombing covered up by British deep state

[Jan Klimkowski]

Shane Paul O'Doherty was a prolific IRA bomber, part of the IRA's "Derry brigade", whatever that means, who is near unique in eventually apologizing to his victims and breaking with the IRA.

Significantly, O'Doherty has contacted the press in the wake of the Police ombudsman's reports into Claudy, and claims to have absolutely no knowledge of a "provo priest" directing an active IRA bombing campaign.

The former IRA bomber Shane Paul O’Doherty told the Irish News that while he was a senior figure in the IRA in Derry in the early to mid-1970s he never heard of Father Chesney .

“If Father Chesney was involved in the IRA unit that bombed Claudy and if he was later still involved in the IRA while based in Malin Head, Donegal, it is extraordinary that IRA persons in the Derry brigade never heard of him until 2002 and were never able to make use of any of his services in the early or mid-1970s in Derry city or in Donegal,” he said.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/news_fr...?showAll=y

There's a 2005 interview with O'Doherty about his life at the link below. It's quite a journey:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazin..._odoherty/

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It is of course possible that one IRA cell might have no knowledge of the personnel making up another IRA cell. However, the "Derry brigade" and its offshoots appears to have been fairly ramshackle.

O'Doherty's statements directly contradict the ombudsman's report.

Since that report has nothing beyond 1970s hearsay and a fake 2002 letter from a non-existent priest ("Father Liam") as "evidence" for its claim that Father Chesney was "the Quarter Master and Director of Operations of the South Derry Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)", that particular conclusion is now in serious doubt.

However, the evidence of low level RUC being prevented from arresting Father Chesney, or raiding his property, by RUC/Special Branch/intel top brass is strong, with many protagonist witness statements.

Similarly, the evidence of collusion between Northern Ireland secretary Willie Whitelaw (the cabinet minister running NI and its security/military apparatus) and Cardinal William Conway (most senior Catholic cleric), to move Chesney out of Northern Ireland, is strong and supported by documentation.

The real questions remain:

Who or what was being protected by these actions of the British deep state?

Was Chesney a British asset?

Or was there another British asset who was being protected?

(Especially since low level RUC were prevented from raiding Chesney's property, which may have been a veritable cornucopia leading to that asset.)

Why was the police ombudsman's report, containing near four decades old intelligence reports - hearsay masquerading as evidence - released now?

What is especially strange is that, in the version presented by the police ombudsman, there was a conspiracy between the British government, the Catholic Church, the RUC and Special Branch to protect a terrorist bomber. And the powers that be HATE "conspiracies" that are officially confirmed as true by "credible" sources.

In MSM terms, the Police ombudsman is a rock solid and highly credible source.

As the Jack Nicholson character sez in Scorsese's The Departed, "I smell a rat":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvVqcuNQHpI