Don’t let them break you

Posted by Jim on May 31, 2017

The following piece was published by Junior McDaid House, a new joint
Irish Republican Prisoners’ Welfare Association and Saoradh office in
Derry named after the late IRA volunteer, James ‘Junior’ McDaid.

It is impossible to forget certain media reports. They are engraved upon
your mind at the moment you first view them. Younger Republicans will
not remember certain articles and images from the war but as recent
investigations have brought them back into the public domain, there is
no doubt that all of us can relate to them and their meaning.

The account of Aidan Starrs, Johnny Dignam and Gregory Burns. Three
British agents who had murdered and secretly buried Margaret Perry in an
attempt to conceal their role within British intelligence. They were
executed by the IRA and their bodies left on the road. The recently
aired confession of Caroline Moreland, a Belfast woman who confessed to
being a British agent inside the IRA and who was subsequently executed
with her body being left on the Fermanagh Monaghan border in July 1994.

The recent lonesome and pathetic death of Derry British agent Raymond
Gilmore who had worked for British intelligence against his own people
before ironically being exposed by his handlers. This forced him to flee
his home and to rot in isolation and alcoholism in various shabby
English flats until his pathetic existence was finally extinguished. His
rotting corpse lay undiscovered for days. No-one cares about an
informer, they do not have loved ones.

All of these horrid images and stories raise the question, “What
happened to send these people into such pathetic lonely deaths?”

It begins with an approach. Caroline Moreland claims to have been
threatened with the loss of her children, Johnny Dignam & Co offered
various reasons. Raymond Gilmore pretended he had a justification for
turning on his own but an informer is a narcissist and by virtue of
their existence will do or say anything to protect only themselves and
only for their own selfish interest.

The intelligence world is a dark place that we know is bereft of law,
morals or justice. British intelligence controls everything in the 6
Counties, from the Prisons to the so-called ‘Police’. Over the past 10
years Nationalist politicians aided by the NIO have rammed an image of
the RUC down our throats that simply doesn’t exist.

They have told us that the RUC has changed its ways and swore that it is
no longer at war with the Nationalist community. They have ordered us to
endorse it and they have forced it into every aspect of community life
to such an extent it is impossible to live without “them” being “there”
somewhere.

Last year PSNI commander Will Kerr stated on radio that “MI5 and the
PSNI” are “the same thing”. No-one seemed to raise an eyebrow at this
revelation but it was the first time that someone so senior conceded
what Republicans have known always.

At the weekend National Organiser for Saoradh, Joe Barr, arrived home to
find that a letter signed by “Caroline” awaited him. Joe does not know
who “Caroline” is. The letter is a disgusting attempt by British
intelligence to recruit an agent within the Revolutionary Republican
Party Saoradh.

This letter arrived a week following the publication of a newspaper
article. The article detailed how Joe had been forced from the U.S. by
FBI agents working on the instructions of British intelligence while on
a business trip and how he has been left unemployed as a result.

“Caroline’s” attempt to exploit the very circumstances which British
intelligence created in order to facilitate an approach is truly
shocking in 2017.

“Caroline” tells Joe in the letter that only she can help him. In an
attempt to manipulate him, she tells him that he is smarter than his
comrades and has already proven an ability to act and think differently
than them. It is probably the same theme that was once applied to the
narcissistic Raymond Gilmore and one that appealed to him.

British intelligence have targeted Joe in a number of ways over the last
12 months. He has been arrested, charged, constantly harassed by the RUC
on a daily basis, they terminated his employment and have applied so
much pressure upon him, that both his family and personal relationships
are inevitably enduring stress.

Having directed this vendetta against Joe, MI5 now believe that he is
ready to break and enter the arena for MI5 against his people, his
friends and his Country.

They want him to inflict damage on Saoradh and the Republican movement.
They want him to engage in the activities Johnny Dignam and Co. did and
they want his life to extinguish in a dirty oul’ flat in England in the
same isolation as Raymond Gilmores.

British intelligence set about to destroy this young mans life last year
because of his legitimate Republican beliefs. They targeted a very hard
working, well educated and decent young man until he had lost his
employment, was before the courts and had featured in the local media.
They did so in order to make him vulnerable enough to recruit him into a
life of unthinkable crime. Former agents include Mark Haddock, Torrens
Knight and Freddie Scappaticci. The pathway to a better life that
“Caroline” has offered to Joe is the road to pure evil.

Saoradh demand that the British explain them-selves in relation to this
disgusting attempt at wreaking havoc upon the people of Derry through
agency. We call on the forces of Nationalism, who have been driving the
Normalisation process for a decade, to come out now and to condemn this
horrific and now wholly exposed agenda. The RUC and MI5 are one and the
same body. They have no place around any Irish person and have been
exposed by “Caroline” for what they are and always have been.

Do not be fooled by British intelligence or flattered by their
overtures. They possess the same consideration for Joe or indeed any
other Republican, as they did for the rest of those whom they gleefully
sent to lay dead on border roads, in England’s dirty war games.

We make an appeal to anyone who has been approached by British
intelligence and has accepted their false promises of a better life to
come forward and to make it known. Do not allow yourselves to end up in
the same sorry state that others did. As revolutionaries we understand
how England works and why they work in this manner. We therefore are
truly here to help all victims of British rule.

In response to Caroline who asked that Joe keep her little letter to
himself. We hope you enjoyed this statement.