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Padraig (Podraig) Wilson IRA terrorist and Martin McGartland the undercover agent inside the IRA
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IRA ARMS CHIEF SENTENCED ME TO DIE
A KEY figure in the Northern Ireland peace process is today named by former Special Branch agent Martin McGartland as the IRA punishment chief who ordered his execution.
Padraig Wilson, who is set to lead the IRA team negotiating disarmament, headed the terrorist organisation's intelligence and discipline operations in Belfast in the mid-1980s.
McGartland, who infiltrated the IRA on the Special Branch's behalf, reveals in the Sunday Mirror today how he went to meet Wilson at Sinn Fein headquarters in 1991 - but was faced, instead, with a punishment squad
who took him away for interrogation and execution. He escaped by jumping from a third-floor window.
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Wilson, 42, still a prisoner at the Maze but is expected to be released within weeks, was elected to handle the decommissioning talks at an IRA Army Council meeting two weeks ago in the Irish Republic.
Wilson is said to have met Canadian General John de Chastelain, head of the International Decommissioning Commission, in Dundalk yesterday, to start talks on handing over weapons.
Sinn Fein officials refused to confirm Wilson's role. One said such a role would be "an enormous, and perhaps, unfair burden on a prisoner". But security sources said they were expecting the IRA to put up a "smokescreen".
Two priests from Clonard monastery in West Belfast, who set up a secret communications channel between the IRA and the Irish government in the early 1990s, could become involved in the talks.
The IRA is considering asking Fr Alec Reid and Fr Gerry Reynolds to act as independent decommissioning verifiers.
Republicans describe Wilson as one of the most respected IRA leaders and a moderate voice among hardliners.
He was jailed for 24 years in 1991 after being caught with a car bomb in Belfast City centre.
In the mid-1980s, Wilson joined the IRA Belfast brigade staff. His closest ally was David Adams, the cousin of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams.
As head of its so-called Civil Administration Team, or punishment squad, Wilson had the power over life and death, sanctioning vicious attacks on petty criminals and taking charge of the hunt for Special Branch informers. One he uncovered was Martin McGartland.
In 1991, suspicion fell on McGartland after operations he was involved in were either foiled by the security forces or had to be abandoned because of defective weapons.
McGartland, then aged 21, had spent the previous two years working with Davy Adams, and also in the pay of Special Branch.
One August morning he was called to a meeting with Wilson.
After clearance from his handlers, McGartland went to Connolly House on Andersonstown Road, Sinn Fein's Northern Ireland HQ.
But Wilson was not present and McGartland was taken to a flat in the Twinbrook estate where he later jumped 40ft from a third floor window to cheat death at the hands of an IRA execution team.
Within months, Wilson was caught with an undercar booby trap bomb and sent to the Maze.
He gave the first insight into IRA thinking on disarmament a year ago in a letter to a Belfast newspaper. It said he believed that "voluntary decommissioning" could happen once political institutions were in place.
Now the world holds its breath to see if decommissioning will go through before the May 2000 deadline.
Link; http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19991205/ai_n14497588/
Monday, December 27, 1999
Friday, February 12, 1999
Martin McGartland Northumbria Police Cover - Up of IRA attempted murder
Marty Says; Sinn Fein, IRA called for the; 'immediate release and an explanation from the NIO Security Minister Adam Ingram' of IRA terrorist and convicted bomber Harry Fitzsimmons (Fitzsimons). Northumbria Police, British Goverment (including Mi5) caved in to Sinn Fein, IRA and released both Harry Fitzsimmons and another convicted IRA bomber within 24 hours. The Northumbria Police Cover Up in The Martin McGartland attempted murder case continues.
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Sinn Fein fury after Belfast man is arrested over McGartland shooting.
The Birmingham Post (England)
November 3, 1999
The arrest of a Belfast man in connection with the attempted murder of IRA informer Martin McGartland sparked a furious protest last night.
The 32-year-old man was arrested earlier yesterday along with a 33-year-old man from Glasgow after a joint operation by the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northumbria Police and Strathclyde Police.
The two are being questioned at an undisclosed police station in the Northumbria area.
Mr McGartland, aged 29, suffered six gunshot wounds in an attack at his home in Duchess Street in the Tyneside seaside resort of Whitley Bay in June.
Northumbria Police launched a massive manhunt and publicity appeal to find the gunmen, but said they were keeping an open mind on the motive while not discounting possible terrorist involvement.
At the time, Sinn Fein denied any IRA involvement in the attack. Last night, Sinn Fein Assembly member for north Belfast, Gerry Kelly, called for the Irishman's immediate release.
In a statement he said: "This morning's raid is an appalling act which saw one man arrested and his home and business badly damaged.
"Once again the RUC are involved in activities which run counter to the peace process and can only cause difficulties for those attempting to break the present political impasse.
"I am calling for the man's immediate release and an explanation from the NIO Security Minister Adam Ingram. We are treating this incident with the utmost seriousness."
The Royal Ulster Constabulary said it was a matter for Northumbria Police, which is leading the inquiry into Mr McGartland's shooting, to comment.
A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said: "The men were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder Mr McGartland under new cross border powers conferred by the Criminal Justice and Criminal Order Act 1994.
Mr McGartland infiltrated the republican movement on behalf of the RUC Special Branch during the 1980s and later published Fifty Dead Men Walking, recounting his experiences.
Northern Ireland peace broker George Mitchell last night went into the latest round of his marathon review of Ulster's Good Friday agreement by meeting Irish premier Bertie Ahern in Dublin.
The former United States senator briefed Mr Ahern on his nine weeks of talks so far with Northern Ireland's political party bosses ahead of making similar reports to Mr Tony Blair and President Clinton.
The senator meets the Prime Minister in London today and Mr Clinton in Washington later this week.
Story here:- http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60260146.html
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Sinn Fein fury after Belfast man is arrested over McGartland shooting.
The Birmingham Post (England)
November 3, 1999
The arrest of a Belfast man in connection with the attempted murder of IRA informer Martin McGartland sparked a furious protest last night.
The 32-year-old man was arrested earlier yesterday along with a 33-year-old man from Glasgow after a joint operation by the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northumbria Police and Strathclyde Police.
The two are being questioned at an undisclosed police station in the Northumbria area.
Mr McGartland, aged 29, suffered six gunshot wounds in an attack at his home in Duchess Street in the Tyneside seaside resort of Whitley Bay in June.
Northumbria Police launched a massive manhunt and publicity appeal to find the gunmen, but said they were keeping an open mind on the motive while not discounting possible terrorist involvement.
At the time, Sinn Fein denied any IRA involvement in the attack. Last night, Sinn Fein Assembly member for north Belfast, Gerry Kelly, called for the Irishman's immediate release.
In a statement he said: "This morning's raid is an appalling act which saw one man arrested and his home and business badly damaged.
"Once again the RUC are involved in activities which run counter to the peace process and can only cause difficulties for those attempting to break the present political impasse.
"I am calling for the man's immediate release and an explanation from the NIO Security Minister Adam Ingram. We are treating this incident with the utmost seriousness."
The Royal Ulster Constabulary said it was a matter for Northumbria Police, which is leading the inquiry into Mr McGartland's shooting, to comment.
A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said: "The men were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder Mr McGartland under new cross border powers conferred by the Criminal Justice and Criminal Order Act 1994.
Mr McGartland infiltrated the republican movement on behalf of the RUC Special Branch during the 1980s and later published Fifty Dead Men Walking, recounting his experiences.
Northern Ireland peace broker George Mitchell last night went into the latest round of his marathon review of Ulster's Good Friday agreement by meeting Irish premier Bertie Ahern in Dublin.
The former United States senator briefed Mr Ahern on his nine weeks of talks so far with Northern Ireland's political party bosses ahead of making similar reports to Mr Tony Blair and President Clinton.
The senator meets the Prime Minister in London today and Mr Clinton in Washington later this week.
Story here:- http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60260146.html
Tuesday, September 9, 1997
Police criticise ex-IRA informer - More Cover-Up by Mi5, Northumbria Police and the CPS
Sat 09 Sep 1997
Police criticise ex-IRA informer
A former IRA informer has claimed his identity was unwittingly "revealed" by his British handlers. But Northumbria police say he revealed his identity by writing about his activities in his book Fifty Dead Men Walking.
Mr Martin McGartland (27) appeared on the BBC1 programme Here and Now last night to discuss his treatment by British police and the blame, he says, lies with them for putting his life in danger.
Story Link; http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/1997/0906/97093000032.html
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Marty Says; "Northumbria Police read out my real name (Martin McGartland) and a my home address in open court. Northumbria Police continue to lie, cover-up and mis-lead, Northumbria Police are a dis-credited force who can never be trusted. It is on public record, reported in press etc and it is also recorded in court transcript that they did so. Northumbria Police continue with their cover-up in my attempted murder case. They are covering-up IRA involvment and also covering-up DNA etc. They could arrest those who shot me if they wanted to. They know who they are and where to find them."
Police criticise ex-IRA informer
A former IRA informer has claimed his identity was unwittingly "revealed" by his British handlers. But Northumbria police say he revealed his identity by writing about his activities in his book Fifty Dead Men Walking.
Mr Martin McGartland (27) appeared on the BBC1 programme Here and Now last night to discuss his treatment by British police and the blame, he says, lies with them for putting his life in danger.
Story Link; http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/1997/0906/97093000032.html
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Marty Says; "Northumbria Police read out my real name (Martin McGartland) and a my home address in open court. Northumbria Police continue to lie, cover-up and mis-lead, Northumbria Police are a dis-credited force who can never be trusted. It is on public record, reported in press etc and it is also recorded in court transcript that they did so. Northumbria Police continue with their cover-up in my attempted murder case. They are covering-up IRA involvment and also covering-up DNA etc. They could arrest those who shot me if they wanted to. They know who they are and where to find them."
Friday, July 12, 1996
IRA members Jim McCarthy and Paul Hamilton and the 1991 IRA kidnapping of Martin McGartland - Named in Parliament
IRA members Jim McCarthy and Paul Hamilton and the 1991 IRA kidnapping of Martin McGartland - Named in Parliament.
The PPS (CPS), RUC nor PSNI will charge both of these men. I am on record as stating that both of these men are being protected by the British State because they are informers.
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Early Day Motion
EDM 1138
TESTIMONY OF MARTIN MCGARTLAND
10.07.1996
10.07.1996
Bottomley, Peter
That this House recognises that it is a fiction to believe that Sinn Fein is separate from the IRA and that this is significantly underlined by the harrowing testimony of Martin McGartland, a former RUC agent within the Provisional IRA, given to the Peace Train Organisation in Dublin, in which he recounts how he was summoned to Sinn Fein headquarters in Belfast in August 1991, taken under gunpoint by Provisional IRA members and Gerry Adams' bodyguards, Jim McCarthy and Paul Hamilton, to a nearby estate where he was held for several hours until he escaped interrogation and murder by jumping out of the third storey bathroom; further notes that since his enforced exile from Northern Ireland, and the assumption of a new identity, his family has been persistently harassed by the Provisional IRA culminating, last week, in a brutal attack on his 24 year old brother, Joseph, who was bound and gagged, suspended upside down from a fence and beaten with scaffolding bars, sustaining many fractures and multiple injuries; and calls upon the Sinn Fein leadership to renounce such terrible violence and intimidation by the Provisional IRA, in line with the recommendations of the Mitchell Report which Gerry Adams says he supports.
Link:- http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=12293
The PPS (CPS), RUC nor PSNI will charge both of these men. I am on record as stating that both of these men are being protected by the British State because they are informers.
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Early Day Motion
EDM 1138
TESTIMONY OF MARTIN MCGARTLAND
10.07.1996
10.07.1996
Bottomley, Peter
That this House recognises that it is a fiction to believe that Sinn Fein is separate from the IRA and that this is significantly underlined by the harrowing testimony of Martin McGartland, a former RUC agent within the Provisional IRA, given to the Peace Train Organisation in Dublin, in which he recounts how he was summoned to Sinn Fein headquarters in Belfast in August 1991, taken under gunpoint by Provisional IRA members and Gerry Adams' bodyguards, Jim McCarthy and Paul Hamilton, to a nearby estate where he was held for several hours until he escaped interrogation and murder by jumping out of the third storey bathroom; further notes that since his enforced exile from Northern Ireland, and the assumption of a new identity, his family has been persistently harassed by the Provisional IRA culminating, last week, in a brutal attack on his 24 year old brother, Joseph, who was bound and gagged, suspended upside down from a fence and beaten with scaffolding bars, sustaining many fractures and multiple injuries; and calls upon the Sinn Fein leadership to renounce such terrible violence and intimidation by the Provisional IRA, in line with the recommendations of the Mitchell Report which Gerry Adams says he supports.
Link:- http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=12293
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