The Operators: Inside 14 Intelligence Company - The Army's Top Secret Elite

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The modified Q cars driven by 14 Company operators in Northern Ireland had many suprises hidden beneath their seemingly ordinary exteriors. In the early 1900s intelligence gathering was becoming better understood, to the point where a counter-intelligence organisation ( MI5) was formed by the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DoMI) under Captain (later Major-General) Vernon Kell; overseas intelligence gathering began in 1912 by MI6 under Commander (later Captain) Mansfield Smith-Cumming. [2] 1914–1929 [ edit ] His work for 14 Int in Northern Ireland was exceptionally dangerous and several 14 Int operatives were killed by the IRA, including Captain Robert Nairac, who disappeared in May 1977. His body has never been recovered. Ellison, Graham; Smyth, Jim (2000). The Crowned Harp: Policing Northern Ireland. Pluto Press. p.120. ISBN 0745313930 . Retrieved 1 February 2015. Ali, Tariq (2005). Rough music: Blair/bombs/Baghdad/London/terror. London: Verso. p.57. ISBN 9781844675456. Geoff Hoon, then defence secretary, announced...'the pursuit of international terrorists' would be the SRR's priority.

Memory and attention-to-detail exercises were also a DS favorite. Candidates were dropped in local villages and told to observe things without drawing attention (a hard thing to accomplish in a small community, where everyone knows everyone) and then write detailed reports.In total at least two people were killed by the MRF between April – June 1972 with another 13 people being injured. [7]

But few were staple: midnight stretcher or log carrying races; land navigation followed by timed weapons proficiency tests; aggression assessments, aka boxing matches (the DS loved to pit Paras or Royal Marines against airmen or sailors); initiative and leadership exercises, where candidates had to work as a team to build things with oil barrels, ropes, and planks. Stuart, Mark Muller, Storm in the Desert: Britain's Intervention in Libya and the Arab Spring, Birlinn Ltd, 2017, ISBN 1780274521, ISBN 978-1780274522

Ford, Sarah (1997). One Up: A woman in action with the SAS. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780002558198. Within the British Army, soldiers of the Intelligence Corps are often referred to as Green Slime, or sometimes simply 'Slime', due to the colour of their beret. [14] [15] [16] Locations [ edit ] Is this a new trend in book marketing? A negative buoyancy test to affirm the true importance of a book about Britain's last colonial war? Should publishers collude in the process? Or is the inconsistent behaviour of MoD - first allowing a book to be published, and then having a paroxysm of post-publication regret - the military equivalent of coitus interruptus , left, as so often with this technique, too late to avert disaster? Lawyers, H. C. C. (5 January 2021). "MOD Pay Compensation for 1972 Undercover Army Unit Shooting". Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates . Retrieved 26 May 2021. From their inception until the Troubles played out, 14 Company carried out numerous operations, mostly following and observing suspected terrorists.

In the 19th century, British intelligence work was undertaken by the Intelligence Department of the War Office. An important figure was Sir Charles Wilson, a Royal Engineer who successfully pushed for reform of the War Office's treatment of topographical work. [1] For those concealing potential, a trip to a derelict WWII camp somewhere in the English countryside known as Camp One came next. Eight weeks of punishing and abnormal activities followed. (Women, initially, went through a different Camp One but this, despite ‘fraternisation’ concerns, changed to make courses more realistic.) Interim Report on the Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing of Kay's Tavern, Dundalk". Houses of the Oireachtas: Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights. July 2006 . Retrieved 15 April 2015.

July – The SAS shot dead Protestant civilian Kenneth Stronge while driving his taxi past North Queen Street RUC station. [64]