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

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In a separate case, Mairia Cahill last week waived her right to anonymity to speak out against alleged sexual abuse she suffered as a 16-year-old over a year in 1997 at the hands of another senior IRA figure. August 1978: Lance Corporal Alan Swift was shot dead while undercover in the Bogside area of Derry City. Two IRA members fired into the corporal's car with automatic rifles.

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And the only reason I am alive....is because the missile hit a concrete post before it hit the Land Rover," he said. All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL. He reveals that after the deaths of his colleagues he struggled with thoughts of revenge and applied to join the 14th Intelligence Company - a British army special forces unit - which carried out undercover operations against republicans. In the book he claims he arranged to meet a Sinn Féin member in Cork with a view to joining the IRA but later “bottled” it and failed to show up for the meeting. Ms Cahill said she was raped and later interrogated by the IRA about her claims. She later went to the police and a case was brought against the alleged rapist and those said to have been involved in the IRA inquiry.

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.) The documents also give details of any subsequent criminal or disciplinary action taken against the soldiers involved in the Doherty and Fleming killings. He explained that while serving in the north he never fired any shots because the methods republicans, and in particular the IRA, were using ensured "there was never an opportunity to engage".

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In November 2009, the family initiated an investigation by the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) into the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of Dennis. The family welcomed the investigation and were hopeful of an independent and objective review of:Labour MP Simon Danczuk, who exposed the truth about paedophile Liberal MP Cyril Smith, said: “The exploitation of children by the secret services and members of the establishment comes as no surprise.