News essentially ignored by the MSM : MI5 tried to assasinate Irish Prime Minister

[MicroBrew]

British spy agency MI5 (comparable to our CIA) approached the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force), a notorious Loyalist protestant pro British paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland, and asked them to assassinate the Irish Prime Minister.

Newly released government documents from Ireland's national archives reveals the letter the UVF send to Irish PM in 1987. The UVF claimed that in 1985 MI5 approached them to assassinate the Irish PM.

I suppose you could say the UVF claim is debatable. But keep in mind they were staunchly opposed to the Irish and Catholics and wanted to remain in the UK. They routinely got help from the British armed forces.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...t-paramilitary-group-assassinate-irish-prime/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ll-irish-pm-claim-newly-released-state-papers
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You would think our media would be prominently carrying this news, considering it is very serious. I wonder if the local media in Boston are?? Any Boston or Mass residents can comment?

 

[21 Savage]

Shooter: Ireland

Conor McGregor as Bob Lee Swagger

 

[DoomPatrol]

British spy agency MI5 (comparable to our CIA) approached the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force), a notorious Loyalist protestant pro British paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland, and asked them to assassinate the Irish Prime Minister.

Newly released government documents from Ireland's national archives reveals the letter the UVF send to Irish PM in 1987. The UVF claimed that in 1985 MI5 approached them to assassinate the Irish PM.

I suppose you could say the UVF claim is debatable. But keep in mind they were staunchly opposed to the Irish and Catholics and wanted to remain in the UK. They routinely got help from the British armed forces.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...t-paramilitary-group-assassinate-irish-prime/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ll-irish-pm-claim-newly-released-state-papers
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You would think our media would be prominently carrying this news, considering it is very serious. I wonder if the local media in Boston are?? Any Boston or Mass residents can comment?

Says ignored by MSM.

Posts two different MSM links.

 

[MicroBrew]

Says ignored by MSM.

Posts two different MSM links.

I meant OUR msm. Both the Telegraph (center right) and Guardian (leans left) are British dailys.

And yes I know you can find this news mentioned by our MSM but what I mean is that MSM prominently features some news and reports on it in a such a manner that no one can miss it, while relegating some news to what amounts to a small column on the inside page of a newspaper.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Wouldn't surprise me if it was true. MI5 did a lot worse than try to get a bunch of knuckle-draggers to shoot a politician.

 

[DoomPatrol]

I meant OUR msm. Both the Telegraph (center right) and Guardian (leans left) are British dailys.

And yes I know you can find this news mentioned by our MSM but what I mean is that MSM prominently features some news and reports on it in a such a manner that no one can miss it, while relegating some news to what amounts to a small column on the inside page of a newspaper.

Why in the world would our national news organizations care about this if it's already being reported internationally by people involved? That shit was like 35 years ago.

 

[MicroBrew]

Why in the world would our national news organizations care about this if it's already being reported internationally by people involved? That shit was like 35 years ago.

Britain is our closest ally. This is the spy agency of Britain trying to assassinate the head of a Western Euro country that is also a US ally and has close cultural links to the US. The N.I. issue received attention and support from Americans in the Boston/Mass area. America was involved in the negotiations.

 

[ICHEERTHEBULL]

Also in other news lately

Thousands of government papers detailing some of the most controversial episodes in 20th-century British history have vanished after civil servants removed them from the country’s National Archives and then reported them as lost.

Documents concerning the Falklands war, Northern Ireland’s Troubles and the infamous Zinoviev letter – in which MI6 officers plotted to bring about the downfall of the first Labour government - are all said to have been misplaced.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...apers-from-national-archives?CMP=share_btn_tw

 

[uppercutbus]

Gold standard for burying news is when no TV outlets air something big worthy of news. Even then they still air garbage which makes it look even more out of place when they don't mention a word at all. They run a really tight ship for TV news.

Things online or buried in a postage stamp newspaper article isn't really saying anything.

Not surprised this wouldn't be given any air time.

 

[DoomPatrol]

Britain is our closest ally. This is the spy agency of Britain trying to assassinate the head of a Western Euro country that is also a US ally and has close cultural links to the US. The N.I. issue received attention and support from Americans in the Boston/Mass area. America was involved in the negotiations.

I wonder what was going on in 1985 between those two groups...


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Banner

 

[VivaRevolution]

I meant OUR msm. Both the Telegraph (center right) and Guardian (leans left) are British dailys.

And yes I know you can find this news mentioned by our MSM but what I mean is that MSM prominently features some news and reports on it in a such a manner that no one can miss it, while relegating some news to what amounts to a small column on the inside page of a newspaper.

The media defenders will never admit how artificial and powerful media saturation is.

 

[snakedafunky]

"In it, they claimed to Haughey that “in 1985 we were approached by a MI5 officer attached to the NIO [Northern Ireland Office] and based in Lisburn, Alex Jones was his supposed name,” the UVF said. “He asked us to execute you.” The letter was among the Irish government archives released today.

 

[Quipling]

Britain is our closest ally. This is the spy agency of Britain trying to assassinate the head of a Western Euro country that is also a US ally and has close cultural links to the US. The N.I. issue received attention and support from Americans in the Boston/Mass area. America was involved in the negotiations.

Tried. The word you want is tried.

If it had happened recently, it should be first page news. 30 years after the fact, in a different country, and decades after the conflict has largely ceased? That's not news anymore - its an interesting historical footnote.

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

Sounds like the bias lefty mass media strikes again.

 

[KnightTemplar]

The Troubles were a very, very dirty war. On all sides. One of the SAS' greatest victories in NI was the ambush at Loughall, where one of the IRA's most dangerous Active Service Units was wiped out to the last man. There are now accusations that Gerry Adams helped set up the eight IRA terrorists to be killed at Loughall because they were rivals and one of them threatend to kill him. Adams himself has so far refused to confirm or deny the allegations.

 

[curryjunkie]

i knew a protestant copper years ago and he told me his opinion on the difference between loyalist and republican paramilitaries.
if the IRA wanted to assasinate someone, a decision would be made by the army council, a target would be chosen, and a hitman would be told to be at a certain place at a certaoin time.
the gun would have been issued by a quartermaster, transported to the site and left, after the guy was shot the shooter left and the gun would be picked up and returned, nobody saw anyones face and because of the cell structure , couldnt give any names if caught.
the loyalist in contrast, would make up his mind to shoot someone locally, no oversight from higher up than the local "brigade commander", he would tell everyone what he was going to do, probably do it, but maybe miss, and then brag about it in the pub, the gun would be found half the time behind the dog kennel in his own back yard.
compared to the republicans, the loyallists were amatuer thugs, but useful to the likes of special branch from time to time, who would supply them with intelligence and weapons to do their dirty work.
they couldnt be seen as a "democracy" to be bumping off citizens they didnt like , no matter how much crap they pulled, or how many bombs they set the northern irish were still uk citizens.
it may be true that haughey was an obstacle they wanted removed, but i think it more likely they would use an expert of their own and blame it on loyalists afterwards, too much chance of a fuckup and it being exposed if they outsourced it to a local paramilitary group.
haughey wasnt any more difficult to deal with than other irish prime ministers, so i dont know what the motivation would be.
or it could just be complete bullshit made up to sell a book.

 

[TheLastEmperorReurns]

You would think our media would be prominently carrying this news, considering it is very serious. I wonder if the local media in Boston are?? Any Boston or Mass residents can comment?

lol @ the idea that Irish Americans are connected to the British Isles in any meaningful way.

There's a DNA company commercial about a man who thought he was German all his life taking a DNA test and finding out he's actually Scottish.

Americans are clueless af when it comes to anything about their heritage.

They're just mutts.

You can actually apply that that to the entire Western hemisphere.

Every brown Brazilian thinks they're white.

 

[sleepwalk]

Dastardly but it's a cloak and dagger story from 30 years ago. Not surprising and not topical.

 

[ultramanhyata]

Sounds like the bias lefty mass media strikes again.

Why would any "lefty" want to defend an act that occurred on the Thatcher/Reagan watch??

Corporatists (which is who controls the MSM) are on the right, not the left. You've been duped by Rupert and Co.

 

[Liquid Smoke]

I wonder if the local media in Boston are??

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