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

[Jan Klimkowski]

This wikileaks cable has information relevant to this thread, and the dirty business of when and why double agents (assets) are outed.

It is still my belief that Father Chesney was most likely accused by the NI police ombudsman for (geo)political reasons, rather than any passion for the truth.

The outing, and Real IRA execution, of Denis Donaldson (see post #11 above) can also be interpreted in this light.

As can the suspicion discussed elsewhere on DPF by David Guyatt and I that the high level British intelligence asset within the IRA, known as Stakeknife, was not Freddie Scappaticci of the IRA's Internal Security Unit (aka the "Nutting Squad"), but was actually a more senior member of the IRA.

More likely, a most senior and high profile political figure.

It seems from the cable that the Irish government believed there was a more senior British asset in Sinn Fein and/or the Republican leadership than Denis Donaldson.

US embassy cables: British government had 'valuable Republican source' -
Dublin

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6. © On the whole, 2006 has been a very positive year, particularly in terms of progress in the republican community, Ahern observed. He noted that there was increasing engagement on the ground between the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and republican areas of Belfast. XXXXXXXXXXXX pointed out that the Irish and British Governments were pleasantly surprised by the public's and parties' reactions to the April 6 statement that the Assembly would reconvene. The only negative republican occurrences during the year, said Ahern, had been the April 4 murder of Denis Donaldson (the former IRA official who was out-ed as a British informant), the robbery of a liquor truck by alleged IRA members, and the discovery of a 250 lb. fertilizer bomb in Lurgan. Ahern maintained that these incidents were the work of IRA breakaway groups who were not connected with Sinn Fein leadership. He added that Sinn Fein seemed surprised and shaken by the Donaldson murder and, ironically, had supported the April 6 statement calling for reestablishment of Stormont even more strongly as a result.

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E) Denis Donaldson. McDowell believed that the out-ing of Denis Donaldson as an informant was a clear message from the British Government that it had another, more valuable, source of information within the republican leadership. He reiterated the Taoiseach's point, however, that Sinn Fein leaders appeared to have had no connection to Donaldson's murder. KENNY

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embas...ents/66093