The Defence of the Realm (191 page)

23
 Andrew and Mitrokhin,
Mitrokhin Archive II
,
pp. 246
–
50
.

24
 On Lyalin, see above,
pp. 567
–
74
.

25
 Security Service Archives.

26
 The Security Service does not appear to have discovered details of the appeal by Goulding and Costello to Andropov or of the arms deliveries to the Official IRA until Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992, bringing with him intelligence on them from KGB files. Andrew and Mitrokhin,
Mitrokhin Archive
,
pp. 492
–
3
,
501
–
3
.

27
 After a dispute with Goulding in 1974, Costello was expelled from the Official IRA and founded a new Trotskyist movement, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP). He was murdered by the Officials in 1977.

28
 Security Service Archives.

29
 Unpublished memoir of a former Security Service officer.

30
 Security Service Archives.

31
 Security Service Archives.

32
 There is no record of any communication between FJ and Heath on the hijacks in the Security Service Archives. On Heath's low opinion of FJ, see Heath,
Course of my Life
,
p. 474
.

33
 Interview with Lord Wilson of Dinton, Jan. 2007.

34
 Security Service Archives.

35
 Security Service Archives.

36
 Security Service Archives.

37
 
Evening Standard
, 15 Dec. 1971.

38
 Security Service Archives. The Service played only a peripheral part in the investigation, which it left mainly to the police.

39
 Security Service Archives.

40
 de la Billière,
Looking for Trouble
,
pp. 280
–
81
.

41
 Christie,
Christie File
,
p. 227
.

42
 Security Service Archives. The hitherto unknown Angry Brigade had previously claimed responsibility for shots fired at the Spanish embassy on 3 December 1970 and for an explosive device left at the Department of Employment on 9 December. Both attacks, however, caused so little damage that they attracted almost no media attention.

43
 Security Service Archives.

44
 Security Service Archives.

45
 Christie,
Christie File
,
p. 239
. Christie acknowledged his ‘sympathy with what the Angry Brigade did' (p. 335), but denied any involvement with it and in 1972 was found not guilty of conspiring to cause explosions at the trial of the ‘Stoke Newington Eight'.

46
 Security Service Archives.

47
 Security Service Archives.

48
 Security Service Archives.

49
 Christie,
Christie File
,
p. 248
.

50
 Security Service Archives.

51
 Security Service Archives.

52
 Security Service Archives.

53
 Security Service Archives.

54
 F1B believed that, rather than investigating terrorist attacks after they had occurred, ‘The role of the Security Service should surely be to foresee future anarchist acts of violence. To this end we need to foster as much as possible our liaison with security authorities all over the world.' Security Service Archives.

55
 Security Service Archives.

56
 See above,
p. 476
.

57
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

58
 Security Service Archives.

59
 Hoffman,
Inside Terrorism
,
pp. 74
–
5
.

60
 de la Billière,
Looking for Trouble
,
pp. 281
–
2
.

61
 Security Service Archives.

62
 Security Service Archives.

63
 The investigation of the letter bombs was carried out mainly by the MPSB, assisted by the Forensic Explosives Laboratory of the Royal Arsenal'. EM2 Branch, R.A.R.D.E., Security Service Archives. The report notes (p. 3) that ‘Many similar devices have been examined by this laboratory commencing with the murder of Dr Ami Shachori at the Israeli Embassy in London on 19th September 1972.'

64
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

65
 Security Service Archives.

66
 Security Service Archives.

67
 Security Service Archives.

68
 Security Service Archives. COBR was used for all kinds of emergencies, not simply those involving terrorists.

69
 Security Service Archives.

70
 Security Service Archives.

71
 Security Service Archives.

72
 Security Service Archives.

73
 Security Service Archives.

74
 Security Service Archives.

75
 Security Service Archives.

76
 Security Service Archives.

77
 Security Service Archives.

78
 Security Service Archives.

79
 Security Service Archives.

80
 Security Service Archives.

81
 Security Service Archives.

82
 Security Service Archives.

83
 Security Service Archives.

84
 Dobson and Payne,
War without End
,
p. 174
. Follain,
Jackal
,
pp. 39
–
41
.

85
 Security Service Archives.

86
 Laqueur,
Age of Terrorism
,
p. 299
. I owe this quotation to Eoin Jennings of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar.

87
 Andrew,
Secret Service
, ch. 8.

88
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

89
 Security Service Archives.

90
 Security Service Archives.

91
 Security Service Archives.

92
 Moloney,
Secret History of the IRA
,
p. 103
.

93
 Heath,
Course of my Life
,
pp. 427
–
8
.

94
 Bew and Gillespie,
Northern Ireland
,
pp. 36
–
7
.

95
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

96
 Unpublished memoir of former Security Service officer.

97
 In April 1971 the DG informed the Home Secretary that ‘there is a possible threat of sabotage to Concorde from the IRA and . . . with the agreement of the Ministry of Aviation Supply and BAC we have recently reviewed security measures at the aerodrome from which the prototype flies.' Security Service Archives. This appears to be the first example of Security Service involvement in protective security against Republican terrorism on the mainland drawn to government attention after the beginning of the Troubles.

98
 Security Service Archives.

99
 Security Service Archives.

100
 An EKP is defined as ‘any installation, the products or services of which are of such importance that total loss or severe damage would critically impair Defence or Security, or the Functioning of Government, or the Economy'. Security Service Archives. The concept of
the EKP, though not the term, went back at least to the Second World War, when the Service was responsible for advising on the security of munitions and aircraft factories, arsenals, dockyards, railways and public utilities.

101
 Security Service Archives.

102
 Security Service Archives.

103
 Bew and Gillespie,
Northern Ireland
,
pp. 44
–
6
.

104
 Security Service Archives.

105
 Security Service Archives. Recollections of former Security Service officers.

106
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

107
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer. Security Service Archives.

108
 Recollections of former Security Service officers.

109
 Recollections of former Security Service officers.

110
 Security Service Archives.

111
 Security Service Archives.

112
 Anderson,
Cahill
,
p. 270
.

113
 Security Service Archives. Cahill's authorized biography confirms his involvement in the shipment; Anderson,
Cahill
,
pp. 13
–
14
, ch. 11.

114
 Security Service Archives.

115
 Security Service Archives.

116
 Security Service Archives.

117
 Security Service Archives. Claims that the
Claudia
realized it was being watched and had begun throwing arms overboard appear to be unfounded.

118
 Anderson,
Cahill
,
p. 272
(quoting Cahill).

119
 Security Service Archives.

120
 See below,
pp. 737
–
8
.

121
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

122
 Taylor,
Provos
,
pp. 164
–
5
.

123
 Security Service Archives.

124
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

125
 In evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry in June 2004 (Week 118, ADO 199.0001), Duddy said that he knew Ruairí Ó Brádaigh.

126
 Brian Rowan, ‘Derry man breaks silence in “McGuinness plea”',
Belfast Telegraph
, 21 June 2007.

127
 Security Service Archives.

128
 Security Service Archives.

129
 Security Service Archives.

130
 Security Service Archives.

131
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

132
 Security Service Archives.

133
 See below,
pp. 637
–
8
.

134
 Security Service Archives. The fact that the DCI's meeting with Wilson is not recorded in Security Service Archives is further evidence of the clandestine nature of the DCI's visit to Chequers.

Chapter 4: The ‘Wilson Plot'

1
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 184
.

2
 Security Service Archives.

3
 Security Service Archives.

4
 See above,
pp. 567
–
74
.

5
 Security Service Archives.

6
 Security Service Archives.

7
 Security Service Archives.

8
 Security Service Archives.

9
 Security Service Archives.

10
 Security Service Archives.

11
 Security Service Archives.

12
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 366
.

13
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
pp. 608
–
9
. Donoughue believed that ‘a number of H[arold] W[ilson]'s “personal list” were much closer to Marcia.'

14
 Security Service Archives.

15
 Security Service Archives.

16
 According to the
Evening Standard
in 1961: ‘In the cut-throat worlds of commerce and politics [Rudy Sternberg] is regarded as one of the most controversial business men in Britain.' A decade later a Security Service source described him as ‘utterly unscrupulous and not to be trusted in any business capacity'. Security Service Archives.

17
 
Dictionary of National Biography 1971 -1980
,
p. 808
.

18
 Security Service Archives.

19
 Security Service Archives.

20
 Security Service Archives.

21
 Security Service Archives.

22
 Donoughue noted in his diary on 6 November 1974 after a discussion with Armstrong about the New Year's Honours List: ‘H[arold] W[ilson] even put in Rudi Sternberg, who is connected with a Swiss bank which went broke with an account of HW's, but Robert Armstrong made him take it out.' Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 238
.

23
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 494
.

24
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
pp. 608
–
9
,
710
.

25
 Haines,
Glimmers of Twilight
,
p. 161
.

26
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 172
.