20-10-2008, 08:20 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:The combination of the presence of so many senior intelligence types on one helicopter and the timing in the broader Irish "peace process" is provocative...
It would be very interesting if it emerged that many of those spooks on the Chinook were from the hardline - promote anarchy and destabilization, FRU death squad - faction of British intelligence.
Senior MI5 man aboard was John Deverell, the organisation's Director and Co-ordinator of intelligence in the province. Five other members accompanied him: Stephen Rickard; Michael Maltby, John Haynes, Martin Dalton & Anne James.
RUC Special Branch reportedly lost ten, amounting to forty per cent of its command level.
The senior Military Intelligence figure among the dead was Colonel Christopher Biles, OBE, who headed MI in NI.
Quite some cull.
Paul