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Mrs. Nuala O’Loan –
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Seán Kelly.
Drimnagh,
Monday 15.10.07
(Dear Mrs. O’Loan)
Further to my letter dated
11.07.07 and your return (NOL/RC/SK170707), enclosed is a document from a large
private collection, subscribed in the belief that if it is not forwarded it may
not be picked up by researchers investigating the Stakeknife-Scappaticci
allegations.
The compilation refers to
the core accusation in the Stakeknife saga that
I have never believed the
claims that Mr. Scappaticci was a FRU agent to be true. The content of the
enclosure will give cause for most fair minded people to accept a contrary
view.
Items 4a, 4b & 4c of
that enclosure provide evidence of lying by former FRU handler Martin Ingram.
The certitude of what is offered is not down to my say-so but comes from the
mouth of Martin Ingram himself, and was made possible by an inattention to
homework.
A reading will explain.
All the quoted source
material mentioned in the document should be available or accessible to your
office. If any item is not at hand, a copy page of same can be sent on by me on
receipt of request.
The presentation was
intended for personal use, and carries some non politically correct
observations. I put the inclination for these occasional cynical sojourns down
to my lack of formal education.
The choice was to exclude or
include them. I chose the latter.
(Yours sincerely)
Mrs Nuala O’Loan.
Police Ombudsman for
New Cathedral Buildings,
St. Anne’s Square,
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Seán Kelly.
Drimnagh,
Tuesday 30.10.07
(Dear Mrs. O’Loan)
Thank you for your letter of
22 October, received today.
A re-reading of my 15
October presentation, has brought to my attention that one paragraph had
quotation marks omitted, and, more important, a mistype caused year 2003 to
read 2005 – last paragraph in page 4b.
I have taken the opportunity
to correct these errors. In doing so I have also moderated some personal
observations in the compilation.
As my correspondence is now
with your Senior Director of Investigations, to make ease of validation and
establish the provenance of the material, enclosed are two corrected copies of
the Scappaticci-Notorantonio document earlier forwarded, as well as copies of all
source documents from which the quoted references within are borrowed. These to
authenticate claims made.
For every past kindness, I
thank you.
(Yours sincerely)
Mrs. Nuala O’Loan.
Police Ombudsman for
Northern Ireland,
New Cathedral Buildings,
St. Anne’s Square,
11 Church Street,
Belfast BTI 1PG.
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Scappaticci-Notorantonio
Re. Claims by Martin Ingram
*) Item 1 – UDA: Sunday Life, 25.05.03
*) Item 2 – UDA/UFF: The Irish News, Monday
12.05.03
*) Item 3 – Brian Nelson: The Guardian, Monday
12.05.03
*) Item 4a – Martin Ingram in the Stakeknife book
(pages 222-223)
*) Item 4b – Ministry of Defence Letter to Bloody
Sunday Inquiry: Re. Martin Ingram
*) Item 4c – Bloody Sunday Inquiry (26.07.02
Statement by Martin Ingram)
*) Item 5a – Sunday Life, 01.06.03
*) Item 5b – The Sunday People, 15.06.03
*) Item 6 – Greg Harkin in the Stakeknife book
(page 221)
*) Item 7 – The Sunday Times, 10.09.00
Note: Highlighting used in
coming items is mine.
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Scappaticci-Notorantonio
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1) UDA:
Sunday Life, 25.05.03 – (P9) –
By Alan Murray. “The UDA has dismissed claims that it ever planned to kill
Freddie Scappaticci… a senior UDA man has categorically denied repeated reports
that Army agent Brian Nelson steered the terror group away from killing
Scappaticci in 1987 by directing them to murder west Belfast pensioner,
Francisco Notorantonio… but Stevens Inquiry detectives have found no
evidence to support this, during their probe into security force collusion with
paramilitaries.
“…A senior member of the
UDA’s west Belfast brigade has confirmed they did have a security force
photo-montage, featuring Scappaticci, in 1987. But the UDA veteran rubbished
the idea that Nelson substituted Scappaticci’s name as a target with
Notorantonio. ‘It didn’t happen – it’s as plain as that. Scappaticci was never
a prime target in the 1980’s, nor at any time’.
“’He wasn’t considered
important, and we were concentrating on more active IRA figures, like Danny
McCann, Brian Gillen, Anto Murray. Eddie Copeland, and some others in the
Ardoyne. They were the key players in the IRA we were after, and we nearly
killed McCann in one attempt – he ran out the back door and climbed over a
wall.’
“He added: ‘I’ll say now –
110% – Scappaticci was not a top target. It’s nonsense to say we took
Notorantonio out to save him. It didn’t happen.’
“He also confirmed that
Brian Nelson supplied two detailed files on Notorantonio, and another man, in
August or September of 1987.”
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Note:
1) Francisco Notorantonio
was shot dead in his Ballymurphy home on Friday 9 October, 1987.
2) The Sunday Life report is
emphatic.
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Sunday Life, 25 May 2003. Page 8. |
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Sunday Life, 25 May 2003.
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2) UDA/UFF:
The Irish News, Monday 12.05.03 - (P7 – No Byline): “Ironically some of the few
people who knew the identity of Stakeknife were the UFF gunmen who were
persuaded not to kill him. On October 9, 1987 west Belfast pensioner
Francisco Notorantonio was shot dead by the UDA, which is aligned to the UFF,
in a high profile murder said to have been carried out to protect ‘Stakeknife’.
“It was alleged that
Britain’s most senior intelligence chiefs had sanctioned the killing to protect
their agent, who was being targeted by the UFF. The decision to encourage the
UFF to target Francisco Notorantonio is alleged to have been taken at a meeting
with MI5 chiefs and FRU handlers at British Army headquarters in Lisburn.
“It was the revelation that
security forces had colluded in the murder of Francisco Notorantonio, which led
to the allegation that a mole codenamed Stakeknife existed within the IRA.”
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Note:
1) And the UDA/UFF kept
quiet about knowing who the supposed Stakeknife person was, when exploiting it
would have allowed them to make mischief at the expense of the IRA.
Surely one of the silliest
claims of all? The surprise is that any journalist would conclude thus.
2) Also in the same newspaper
is this: “The one thing that does appear to be certain is that a FRU agent
codenamed Stakeknife does exist.”
Any bets?
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The Irish News, Monday 12
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3) Brian Nelson:
The Guardian, Monday 12.05.03 – (P18) By John Ware. “Some reports suggest that
Stakeknife was once targeted by loyalist death squads, and that FRU used Nelson
to steer them away from Stakeknife by picking another target: an elderly ex-IRA
man, Francis [sic] Notorantonio, who was shot dead in October 1987. Again,
no evidence has been discovered by Stevens to support this. Nelson’s
private diaries, in which he sometimes wrote candidly about his own involvement
and that of FRU in assassinations, do not support the theory either.”
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The Guardian, Monday 12
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Scappaticci-Notorantonio
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4a) Martin Ingram in the Stakeknife Book
Stakeknife – The Book (2004) – (PP222-223) Ingram saw the files on the
Notorantonio killing when working for the FRU. They were in the Stakeknife
files. Ingram says: “I read the files which showed the loyalists were targeting
Stakeknife and I discussed it with Stakeknife’s handler. He confirmed loyalists
had picked Scappaticci, among others. I also discussed it with Nelson’s
handler, who said basically that it had been taken care of. [Nelson’s handler]
told me: ‘A substitute has been put in place. It caused an almighty flap, but
everything is back on track.’ This conversation was before the Notorantonio
murder, and I had no idea how things were put ‘back on track’. I learned after
the killing that Notorantonio had been the substitute. My superiors and the
handlers involved knew I was appalled by what had happened, a pensioner had
been killed. I was told to ‘shut up’ and things got heated. I remember one of
my senior officers said something like, ‘Didn’t Gerry Adams carry the coffin?
It couldn’t have gone better for us’. Another said, ‘we want to take the war to
the enemy. The end justifies the means.’ I thought it was wrong then and I
still believe it is wrong. It was State-sponsored murder and the family of Mr.
Notorantonio deserves to know the truth.”
Senior officers would
routinely write end-of-year reports for each FRU handler. At end of 1990,
Ingram’s superior wrote in his confidential report: ‘XXXXXX [Martin Ingram]
must temper his comments when briefing senior army officers.’ The report was a
recommendation for promotion, but the comment was clearly a reference to
Ingram’s numerous conversations with senior officers when he had questioned the
FRU’s role in a number of incidents. Ingram later recounted these heated
exchanges to a senior investigating officer with the Stevens Inquiry, recalling
in particular the murder of Notorantonio. That conversation was taped.
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Front cover. Stakeknife – Britain’s
Secret Agents in Ireland (2004). |
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Contents page (1).
Stakeknife – Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland (2004). |
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Contents page (2).
Stakeknife – Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland (2004). |
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Page 222. Stakeknife –
Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland (2004). |
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Page 223. Stakeknife –
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4b
4b) Ministry of Defence Letter to the Saville Inquiry:
Re. Martin Ingram
Note A
A letter to the Saville
Inquiry, dated 8 May 2003, from W. G. Byatt, Head of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry
Unit, Ministry of Defence (PP K12.43 & K12.44): “From 1984 until 1987
Mr. Ingram was employed in Great Britain; this tour included a six month
deployment abroad. Mr. Ingram was promoted to Sergeant in 1986. Late
in the following year he was posted once again to the FRU in Northern
Ireland.”
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Letter to Bloody Sunday
Inquiry. Page K12.43, 8 May 2003. |
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Letter to Bloody Sunday
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4c
4c) Bloody Sunday Inquiry: Re. Statement of
26.07.02 by Martin Ingram
Note B
Ingram’s Saville inquiry
Statement, Page 12.6, Para 12: “I stayed in Derry until late 1984 when I was
given a compassionate posting due to the ill health of my father. I did Security
Section administrative duties relating to counter terrorism in the UK until
mid 1987 when I was posted to
Belize. On my return I requested to attend a FRU course at Repton Manor,
Ashford, Kent. I was posted to St. Angelo (near Enniskillen) a couple of
weeks after the memorial bombing; this posting was to augment the
small detachment in response of the bombing.”
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Notes A and B (in sections 4b and 4c) give cause not only to question the
veracity of the Stakeknife book but the whole Stakeknife industry. When
Francisco Notorantonio was murdered on Friday 9 October 1987, Martin
Ingram was either in Belize or England. He was posted to FRU West in Northern
Ireland “a couple of weeks after the memorial bombing…to
augment the small detachment in response to the bombing.”
The Remembrance Day bombing was on Sunday 08.11.87 –
a full month after the slaying of Francisco Notorantonio.
For the quoted Stakeknife
book representation by Martin Ingram to have taken place, he would have needed
months of sustained bi-location from wherever to Northern Ireland in the latter
months of 1987, prior to his return there.
While MI5/MoD deem it within
their remit to indulge in acts of public deception, miracles are not their
forte.
The Stakeknife book and its
antecedents is a credulous straining of historic events sold on to us by a
manipulated media through agents and agencies of state. All the world is a
stage, it is said. And the Stakeknife story proves it. The big lie of
Stakeknife is a microcosm of the global fraternity of the supposed Free West.
In that supranational design called the “democratic process”, we are as often
fed falsehoods as we are shielded from the truth. Occasional crumbs of comfort
are to be had when our servant-masters entangle in their web of lies.
The irony of it is, it is
the sweat off our backs that sustains those who dissemble to us and preclude us
from knowing otherwise. If any of our elected representatives were aware of
this “whistleblower” scam, none seemed aroused enough to make challenge. A
greater shame that.
In short, Mr. Ingram lied
and lied grievously. And he did it at the behest and with the facilitation of
national security interests. The answer to the question as to why this was
done, is, I am confident, one Mr. Ingram is not fully privy to.
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Martin Ingram Bloody
Sunday Inquiry Statement. Page K12.1. |
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Martin Ingram Bloody
Sunday Inquiry Statement. Page K12.6. |
5a
5a) “From theatre on Ingram…”
Sunday Life, 01.06.03 – (P6 – No Byline) “MoD ‘leaked whistleblower
details’. MoD spooks were last night accused of leaking the whereabouts of
whistleblowing former squaddie, Martin Ingram, in a bid to shut him up.
“The former Force Research
Unit (FRU) handler has become a thorn in the government’s side, for helping the
Bloody Sunday probe boss, Lord Saville, uncover security force collusion.
“Said a source: ‘Ingram
has been told to shut up – or else. These leaks are very worrying.
He reckons this is part of a wider conspiracy to stop former soldiers from
becoming whistleblowers.’
“A Saville Inquiry source
told us: ‘Lord Saville is furious. He
has ordered an inquiry.’”
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Note: Most fairytales are written
by adults for children. Journalists write fairytales for adults only.
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Sunday Life, 1 June 2003.
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5b
5b) “…to theatre by Ingram (at a remove).”
The Sunday People, 15.06.03 – (P33 Exclusive By Greg Harkin) “British Army
officers have enraged collusion probe chief Sir John Stevens by DESTROYING thousands
of documents relating to Stakeknife Freddie Scappaticci, we can reveal.
“And the move is intended to
effectively kill off the Stevens Inquiry probe into Britain’s role into murders
carried out by their top agent inside the IRA’s so-called Nutting Squad.
“Stevens detectives have
spent the past six months poring over documents relating to murders set up by
Scappaticci and loyalist agent Brian Nelson.
“The files were finally
handed over by the Ministry of Defence late last year as Stevens began to widen
his inquiry.
“Senior MoD officials are
claiming the destruction of the documents was normal procedure. But Sir john
and his team are said to be “spitting mad” over what they see as
underhand tactics by the Army.
“Sources say the bulk of the
documents were destroyed after The
People ran a story last year linking
Stakeknife to the operation which led to the imprisonment in 1990 of Sinn
Fein publicity director Danny Morrison.
“Scappaticci had provided
details of the operation to the secret army outfit the Force Research Unit who
in turn had passed the information to Special Branch.
“Now Sir John’s team has
found that most of the MoD forms used to collate information from army informers
has been destroyed. He knows they did exist because he has obtained a documents
registry. This file logs the creation of other classified documents.
“But sir John’s search for
these files has proved fruitless.
“[A source in the Stevens
team said]: ‘…In essence the smoking gun is gone. The only thing left is
the testimony of whistleblowers like
Martin Ingram who should be encouraged to go on the record and not pilloried
and intimidated as has been the case in the past.’”
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Note:
1) Master MoD form 102,
which records the destruction of all documents requires the sanction of an
officer of at least captain rank and a senior non commissioned officer/warrant
officer.
2) There is more to this
report than is given in the above extract. The greatest kindness I can bestow
on it is to make no further comment.
3) The MoD are something
else. One should award them a green environmental sticker for the smokeless
incineration of “thousands of documents relating to Stakeknife Freddie
Scappaticci.”
Encouraged by this, they
will surely work hard on reinventing the “smoking gun”.
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6) Greg Harkin:
Stakeknife – The Book (P 221): “Charlotte Notorantonio, like many families, is
demanding an inquiry into her father’s murder. It has been suggested to me,
however, that the FRU destroyed all references to the murder after The People
story of August 2000. That should come as no surprise.”
Note:
The claim for the most
egregious abuse heaped on anybody by the Stakeknife saga, must go to the
Notorantonio family. Not only was their father murdered by the UDA, the
Stakeknife agenda resurrected the story of the murder and murdered the truth on
the murder, doing so on behalf of state interests. That is surely an act of
scarcely imaginable cruelty.
The standard intelligence cop-out
from being caught out lying, is to lie again and again…
How do they do that? Through
the media, of course. Without the media intelligence agencies would be
speechless.
Observe:
The People, Sunday 15.06.03 – By Greg Harkin. “But the lies and deceit from
British Army officers has continued to the point where Freddie Scappaticci’s
role as Stakeknife has been erased from the files…”
The People, Sunday 15.06.03 – By Greg Harkin. “British Army officers have
enraged collusion probe chief Sir John Stevens by DESTROYING thousands of
documents relating to Stakeknife Freddie Scappaticci, we can reveal. And the
move is intended to kill off the Stevens Inquiry probe into Britain’s role into
murders carried out by their top agent inside the IRA’s so-called Nutting
Squad…
“[A source in the Stevens
team said]: ‘…In essence the smoking gun has gone. The only thing left is the
testimony of whistleblowers like Martin Ingram’…”
And, to repeat:
Stakeknife – The Book (P 221) – “It has been suggested to me, however, that the
FRU destroyed all references to the [Notorantonio] murder after The People
story of August 2000. That should come as no surprise.”
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The lie today is killed off
by the lie tomorrow.
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Front cover. Stakeknife –
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Contents page (1).
Stakeknife – Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland (2004). |
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Contents page (2).
Stakeknife – Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland (2004). |
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Page 221. Stakeknife –
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7) Liam Clarke:
The Sunday Times, 10.09.00 – (P8 – By Liam Clarke): “These papers, witheld
until the Ingram suspect revealed their existence to Stevens, include the most
sensitive military documents in Northern Ireland: the so-called ‘secrets
books’, which record the movements of all
intelligence in the province. These records will form the basis for the
interrogation of FRU members. They show what intelligence was passed to the RUC
and MI5 and what was withheld by the army.
“As the [Stevens] inquiry
progresses it comes ever closer to the most sensitive of all the secrets of the
Troubles, the long term moles placed by British military intelligence in the
IRA. The key figure is a man known to his handlers as Steak Knife, an agent since the early 1970’s who is
so highly placed that an entire office and a fleet of vehicles is devoted to
him.
“Steak Knife, whose identity has never been disclosed by
Ingram, is paid £60,000 tax-free
a year plus bonus; compared with
£10,000 which Nelson received for infiltrating the UDA and taking control of
its intelligence gathering.”
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Note:
Every time I read the above
report, I chuckle.
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