Office, officially in charge of 'politics and information' widely suspected of being a member of MI6. under Foreign Office control tainly in Ml6. Wyatt served under him.
SIR MAURICE OLDFIELD is former head of MI6 and now 'security coordinator' in the North of Ireland. Appointed last October and taken out of retirement at a time when tensions between the Army and RUC, and the Army and the British government were at their height post-war Malaysian 'emergency' when he oversaw ac tivities of MI6. the Army, Special Branch, and police people including an RUC assistant chief constable and an Army brigadier. He also works at Stormont Castle.
COLONEL B M FRANKS is head of the British Army's Special Air Services (SAS). occasionally performing operations on its behalf.
BRIGADIER JIMMY GLOVER is the Army's No 2 in the North of Ireland and Commander of Land Forces assumed to have overall responsibility for Army intelligence in the North of Ireland.
of the IRA saying that it would be able to raise violence ... to at least the level of 1978 for the foreseeable future' miles from Belfast. Known to enjoy watching films of demonstrations DENIS PAYNE and spearhead MI5 operations in the North of Ireland in 1973.
They took over from two Mi6 officers, and Denis Payne, who were the scapegoats for the LittleJohn fiasco. charge of MI5 in the North is unclear. DAVID WYATT is under-secretary at the Northern Ireland He is on secondment from the Foreign Office and is which is One of Wyatt's predecessors in this post was James Alien. who held the job in 1974-5. Allen was almost cer.
The post of under-secretary in 'politics and informa tion was created in 1972 when MI6 was first drafted in to the North of Ireland. Wyatt works from Stormont Castle.
Oldfield piayed a similar 'co-ordination role during the Oldfield now heads a 'think tank' made up of about 20 The SAS has links with Mi6, Glover heads the Defence Intelligence Staff and is Glover was the author of the famous 'Document 37' leaked to the IRA which detailed the Army's assessment Glover is stationed at the Army HQ in Lisburn, seven were sent to Craig Smellie Whether Payne and Cameron are still in Socialist Challenge 8 May 1980