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an attempt to extract information which would have put other lives and future operations at serious risk. These efforts to break
Captain Nairac's will failed entirely. Weakened as he was in strength—though not in spirit—by the brutality, he yet made repeated and spirited attempts to escape, but on each occasion was eventually overpowered by the weight of numbers against him. After several hours in the hands of his captors, Captain Nairac was callously murdered by a gunman of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who had been summoned to the scene. His assassin subsequently said "He never told us anything".
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Ardoyne sports club. The battalion's tour was adjudged a success with 58 weapons, 9,000 rounds of ammunition and 693 lbs of explosives taken and 104 men jailed. The battalion had no casualties and did not shoot anyone. After his tour had ended he stayed on as liaison officer for the replacement battalion, the 1st
Battalion of the
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Wallace, in describing Nairac as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer said "his duties did not involve agent handling". Nevertheless, Nairac "seems to have had close links with the Mid-Ulster UVF, including Robin Jackson and Harris Boyle". According to Wallace, "he could not have carried out
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Showband members Steve Travers and Des McAlee testified in court that an Army officer with a crisp English accent oversaw the Miami attack", the implication being that this was Nairac. Travers was uncertain whether or not Nairac was the man overseeing the attack, stating
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Had he been an SAS member, he would not have been allowed to operate in the way he did. Before his death, we had been very concerned at the lack of checks on his activities. No one seemed to know who his boss was, and he appeared to have been allowed to get out of control, deciding himself what tasks
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On the night of 14/15 May 1977 Captain Nairac was abducted from a village in South Armagh by at least seven men. Despite his fierce resistance he was overpowered and taken across the border into the nearby
Republic of Ireland where he was subjected to a succession of exceptionally savage assaults in
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In 1978, the RUC arrested five men from the South Armagh area. Three – Gerard Fearon, 21, Thomas Morgan, 18 and Daniel O'Rourke, 33 – were charged with Nairac's murder. Michael McCoy, 20, was charged with kidnapping and Owen Rocks, 22, was accused of withholding information. Fearon and Morgan were
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woman. He confessed to killing Nairac and implicated other members of the unit involved. Townson made two admissible confessions to Garda officers. The first was made around the time of his arrest, it started with "I shot the
British captain. He never told us anything. He was a great soldier." The
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Jackson and I would be almost certain, Harris Boyle who was killed in the Miami attack. What I am absolutely certain of is that Robert McConnell, Robert McConnell knew that area really, really well. Robin Jackson was with him. I was later
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area. This was a time of high tension and regular contact with paramilitaries. Ostensibly, the battalion's main objectives were to search for weapons and to find paramilitaries. Nairac was frequently involved in such activity on the streets of
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loyalist paramilitaries. And also that in May 1974, he was meeting with these paramilitaries, supplying them with arms and helping them plan acts of terrorism against Republican targets. In particular, the three prime Dublin suspects,
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and hit with a wooden post, he was shot dead at that place. He did not admit to his true identity. Terry McCormick, one of Nairac's abductors, posed as a priest in order to try to elicit information by way of Nairac's
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this open association without official approval, because otherwise he would have been transferred immediately from Northern Ireland". Wallace wrote in 1975; Nairac was on his fourth tour of duty in 1977.
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The picture derived from this is of a man increasingly frustrated with the failure of the British Authorities to take his claims seriously; who saw the threat to reveal a crossborder SAS assassination.
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and jailed for ten years. McCoy was jailed for five years and Rocks for two. Morgan died in a road accident in 1987, a year after his release. O'Rourke became a prominent
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police station, after Townson had consulted a solicitor. He had become hysterical and distressed and screamed a confession to the officer in charge of the investigation.
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There is something rotten at the heart of the British security services, and we will not have a safe democracy until it is exposed in its entirety and dealt with.
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told that Nairac was with them. I was told by… a UVF man, he was very close to Jackson and operated with him. Jackson told that Nairac was with them.
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in June 1978 after stealing arms from the organisation. Witnesses say that Nairac got up and sang a
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that his distinct impression was that the man had fair hair, in contrast to Nairac's dark hair.
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Shadow Man investigative article by Eamonn O'Neill in Esquire magazine
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photograph of Green's corpse taken directly after his assassination.
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that Nairac had boasted about Green's death and showed him a colour
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paramilitaries. The latter is denied by IRA man Martin McAllister.
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the gripping physical and moral texture of what was going on."
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officer in the Grenadier Guards. He was abducted by
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2059:"Barron throws light on a little shock of horrors"
1499:"Robert Nairac search area was 'never grave site'"
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1008:Requiem for a Spy: The Killing of Robert Nairac
1540:. Lentil.org. 16 November 2000. Archived from
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1223:(Supplement). 26 February 1973. p. 2678.
1088:(Supplement). 4 November 1975. p. 13884.
912:murders of three members of the Reavey family
309:Nairac read medieval and military history at
2340:Spies during The Troubles (Northern Ireland)
2255:Deaths by firearm in the Republic of Ireland
1203:(Supplement). 9 October 1972. p. 11912.
1183:(Supplement). 8 February 1972. p. 1581.
252:origin. His mother, Barbara (née Dykes) was
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1710:"Man Bailed Over IRA Kidnapping of Soldier"
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1754:. Bbc.co.uk. 1 April 2011
1288:. Metro. pp. 32–66.
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1464:North East Chronicle
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2230:Assassinated spies
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1925:You Can't Say That
1806:The London Gazette
1741:, 11 November 2009
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277:Ampleforth College
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1885:Moriarty, Gerry.
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242:Mauritius
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