SOUTH ARMAGH AGENT HANDLER | Recruiting & Running Informants In BANDIT COUNTRY| Ex-FRU Handler

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  • @derrymullins-fp8pl
    @derrymullins-fp8pl 3 місяці тому +2

    Really interesting - I lived in Ireland at the time. Bad times and my sympathy to all, and I mean all, who lost loved ones.

  • @wuwie83GT
    @wuwie83GT 4 місяці тому +8

    The good listener, 👍 amazing interview, 👏

  • @RMCD1
    @RMCD1 3 місяці тому +1

    great listen enjoyed that

  • @MR-mc6rj
    @MR-mc6rj 4 місяці тому +10

    That guy's voice is very, very familiar. I can't put a face to him yet but I will. Stay tuned.

    • @wuwie83GT
      @wuwie83GT 4 місяці тому +3

      Spud ?Danny dyers hardest men?

    • @Jay-2-jackpot
      @Jay-2-jackpot 4 місяці тому

      Danny dyer has a great accent. He's obviously a good looking charming Englishman.
      I'm not gay but did you see the episode with SAM MCCRORY? McCrory was checking out Danny's ass (I noticed that lol)
      ❤❤ Oh sigh, I think I have a strange attraction to nice Englishman.. yummy

    • @Upthemags5115
      @Upthemags5115 4 місяці тому

      You really think he is silly enough to put his proper voice out!!! I don't think so, mate, but if he has, it's foolish, really!!

    • @Jay-2-jackpot
      @Jay-2-jackpot 4 місяці тому +3

      @@Upthemags5115 mate he doesn't care it was 30 years ago

    • @MR-mc6rj
      @MR-mc6rj 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Upthemags5115 When it comes to the Brits, if they told me today was Friday I'd check the calendar - Twice ! He could be the actual guy or could be an actor, who knows and in fairness who cares.

  • @JohnSmith-le5oe
    @JohnSmith-le5oe 4 місяці тому +4

    This guy was a contemporary of mine.
    December 1983, i was tasked as close protection for a female Intelligence Officer on an operation to make contact with Dominic and his wife in County Wicklow. We made contact with them in Delgeny village close to Bray. The night before he captured and tied up Irish Police.
    Unbeknown to the female Intelligence Officer, i was ordered to kill both Dominic and his wife, should the opportunity arise.
    Irish Police and soldiers were all over the couple like flies and i really didn't want to be caught with the stupid 32 Cal i was given by the diplomats upon arrival in the Republic. I destroyed the firearm and the ammunition within three days.
    I overheard some of what the Intelligence Officer was offering Dominic and it included the names of every informant in the INLA, both agents being run by the British in the North.
    D16 was playing their own game with Irish Terror at the expence of 5 and Security Forces in the North.
    I had the chance with Dominic a few years later, i failed for the only time in my career. He was truly blessed, that man.
    It was a filthy dirty war and i am very glad to be a reformed character free of my former career and the stinking British Government.

    • @seansavage2518
      @seansavage2518 4 місяці тому +4

      Bro your comment is as believable as this guy saying the FRU did evwrything by the book an never used blackmail.

    • @AnonAnonAnon
      @AnonAnonAnon Місяць тому

      Dude, great story, you should write a book. Being tasked to kill two people in the Irish Republic, wow, a load of ball locks.

  • @Lottiesbedtime
    @Lottiesbedtime 4 місяці тому +6

    Can’t wait for this John…
    Hopefully it’s going to be an epic…
    Question? Has anyone read Agents of Influence: Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA
    Book by Aaron Edwards?.
    I’ve just finished Steaknifes dirty war by Richard on rawe, absolutely brilliant book.
    Just looking for another good read on similar topics?
    Any suggestions would be appreciated

    • @dominicseanmccann6300
      @dominicseanmccann6300 4 місяці тому +6

      Thomas Leahy; the Intelligence war against the IRA . Good book.

    • @Lottiesbedtime
      @Lottiesbedtime 4 місяці тому +2

      @@dominicseanmccann6300 thanks mate, I will try that next, just finished Britain secret intelligence war, amazing book.

    • @barneymagee3285
      @barneymagee3285 4 місяці тому +5

      @@Lottiesbedtime read ANY book with a heavy dose of scepticism..

    • @gerardhenry5501
      @gerardhenry5501 4 місяці тому +2

      Big boys rules

    • @Lottiesbedtime
      @Lottiesbedtime 4 місяці тому

      @@gerardhenry5501 is it the SAS one mate? And thanks for the recommendation

  • @NICHOLASBYRNE3931
    @NICHOLASBYRNE3931 4 місяці тому +7

    ''Don't want to say too much about that case'' time and time again it just keeps arising. ''Doesn't have to be in that position when he is recruited'' ''looking to influence, push increase their access, you can push and steer''. The questions are still begging to be asked, Well whom put him in that position? Or is the salient question, who had the subtle word in the ear of the person whom put him in that position. Or indeed does the fact that MI5 viewed Mountbatten the raving pedophile as an immediate and existential threat to the realm following the scandal which now we all know about, have any bearing on the matter, or indeed that much praised documentary/book with its openly film recordings of carrying out operations which would get anyone 200yrs in a Diplock court. The bottom line is the Brit Intelligence service as a whole are milking this to create as much chaos/confusion/tail chasing as possible. Remember one thing re the Brit services, once in always in, their still playing their masters game, important not to be un-knowingly tricked into been a shill for their never ending game.

    • @Brian-hc3qx
      @Brian-hc3qx 4 місяці тому +3

      Great post..........this goes deep....freemasonry ..etc...Eyeswideshut.

  • @dommoore782
    @dommoore782 4 місяці тому +2

    I agree about his voice....I think it sounds very familiar too

    • @unusedsub3003
      @unusedsub3003 4 місяці тому +2

      Randy McNob, author of Bravo Six Zero

    • @finndewart7011
      @finndewart7011 3 місяці тому

      Definitely not his voice, but if you want to find out just use technology.

    • @finndewart7011
      @finndewart7011 3 місяці тому

      Any voice software will either confirm or deny. I don't mean track him down 🙈 my bad. Lol

  • @MarkG-f7v
    @MarkG-f7v 4 місяці тому +2

    Arm Saoirse Naisunta Na hEíreann , Erin go Bragh , PS Check out the book INLA Deadly Divisions it's a great read and gives a real insight about Seamus Costello and the split from the officials and the feud because the sticks tried to stamp out the INLA from the time the IRSP was founded in 74 in a hotel in Dublin. Costello , Ta Power and O'Hara were way ahead of their time politically and the book is a great read about the INLA Freedom Fighters and also shows how ruthless the FRU were in regards to their Dirty tactics in a dirty war...!! #TAL32

    • @Pennyburn1688
      @Pennyburn1688 4 місяці тому +1

      War is NOT blowing up wee boys going out for a hamburger on a Saturday afternoon with his grandad! 🤔.

    • @MarkG-f7v
      @MarkG-f7v 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Pennyburn1688 True but neither is shooting young Catholic men crossing the border at night...Catch yer self on !! ✊💚

    • @jackietreehorn5561
      @jackietreehorn5561 3 місяці тому

      Without justification of anything war is always majority innocent people who are killed more than combatants....it's a known fact.... totally wrong but it's reality ​@@Pennyburn1688

    • @geoffirwin3952
      @geoffirwin3952 2 місяці тому

      @@MarkG-f7v Boardnamona peatbrickette comcurrymayogart cannedcokeyourcolasausagesoldier mora drum 🥁

    • @MarkG-f7v
      @MarkG-f7v 2 місяці тому

      @@geoffirwin3952 Lol , can't understand what your saying but I take it it's nothing Good , If that's the case...why don't ye make your way up to South Armagh one day and say things about Maíre Drum...!! Tíocfaidh Ar Lá , Saoradh , Eíre Nua , Erin Go Brágh ✊💯☘😎

  • @barneymagee3285
    @barneymagee3285 4 місяці тому +11

    As noted before , this ‘intelligence officer’ seems not to have noticed the sectarian massacres at kingsmills , and tullyvallen , as well as the large number of farmers who happened to be part time UDR men , can’t take him seriously.

    • @geoffirwin3952
      @geoffirwin3952 4 місяці тому +3

      I'm behind I've just started watching but from what you're sayin Barney he's talkin fairytale shite in the main.

    • @Lottiesbedtime
      @Lottiesbedtime 4 місяці тому

      @@barneymagee3285 hi Barney hope you’re well, I stumbled across johns channel, and I’ve been transfixed ever since, I was in the British Army and severed all over the world in conflict, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Northern Ireland, the problem is that as a 18 year old infantryman were just barely pawns on a chess board, and really don’t get told why or what we are doing most of the time, I’ve spoken with John via email and thanked him for opening my eyes to both sides instead of what what we get told…
      I really can see why it was so important for both sides, but I’m still miles behind on the history of the conflict.
      So I really can’t comment on your reply because that would be ignorant of me, and the last thing I don’t want to do Is offend anyone.
      But I’m really interested in this topic and if you can recommend any books, documentary’s etc etc that would be appreciated.
      Take care and hope life treats you well.
      Another great episode John thanks

    • @paddyt4043
      @paddyt4043 4 місяці тому +2

      True but you can't blame farmers , farmers were ira men too...

    • @Lottiesbedtime
      @Lottiesbedtime 4 місяці тому +2

      @@jackietreehorn5561 when I joined as a boy, who got brought up just by a single parent mother with no help, left school and didn’t know what to do with my life.
      Wanted to make mum proud and I was blind to what I was walking in to, there was nobody in my family history who served, and it was probably the first time in my life that I had a father figure, and proper discipline, I thrived and loved every minute of it, met some absolute amazing friends who all still keep in touch, but also lost a lot too, too many but the strange thing is that most who lost their lives wasn’t down to war, it was down to mental health and what was left after we had to see what war brings suicide is crazy but there is no aftercare and your right we just get dropped without any thought of civi life.
      We can’t think for ourselves we told what to do and when to do it, and this is carried up through the chain of command, no matter what rank you get to there’s always someone telling you what to do and it’s a massive knock on effect. And I know this personally because I went up the ranks.
      I hate the way we’re left without any support and my fellow infantryman should agree.
      Would I change if I could turn the clock back, absolutely not, its made me who I am today, but there’s a massive problem with follow on support, not sure what it’s like now I served my time in 97-2006.

    • @Heresy1987
      @Heresy1987 4 місяці тому

      ​@@paddyt4043 yeah but there's a world of difference between UDR men that were farmers and Irish Republicans that were farmers.
      The UDR men were loyalists too (some, not all) and were never technically off-duty, ever.

  • @tonybyrne746
    @tonybyrne746 4 місяці тому +3

    The interviewer should b pulling him up on some things.

    • @gerardhenry5501
      @gerardhenry5501 4 місяці тому +1

      He is telling about mid 70s onwards it’s hard to remember details from back then

  • @JayIowa
    @JayIowa 2 місяці тому

    The handlers name is Frederick basset,?

  • @steveh5005
    @steveh5005 3 місяці тому +2

    I was there in 1983. GOC crew. Knew all these people.

  • @clario2178
    @clario2178 4 місяці тому +9

    Colonial imposter

  • @geoffirwin3952
    @geoffirwin3952 4 місяці тому +15

    Are you seriously suggesting you don't know Scap murdered for fun never mind other agent's being sacrificed to cover himself. Ffs really?

    • @seansavage2518
      @seansavage2518 4 місяці тому +1

      He clearly wasn't honest. Saying they never blackmailed people to turn guys. They brought guys back from other countries because they'd run away to get out thier situation.

    • @KH-wy7le
      @KH-wy7le 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@seansavage2518 Why don't you try listening paddy? He stated that he himself, never blackmailed a source, nor was he aware of other FRU officers blackmailing. He did not say that it never happened elsewhere to other sources by other intelligence units.
      Try a little less looking for 'gotcha' moments, and open your ears.

    • @seansavage2518
      @seansavage2518 4 місяці тому

      @@KH-wy7le Which is BS. He was serving around the time Thatcher was asked for clarification on how to handle informers because they were going to far. Her reply was along the lines of just dont get caught. FRU officers were doing drive by shootings in the early seventies ffs.

    • @geoffirwin3952
      @geoffirwin3952 2 місяці тому

      @KH-wy7le OK sweetheart 😘

    • @geoffirwin3952
      @geoffirwin3952 2 місяці тому

      @KH-wy7le you're a bit of a dafty aren't ye tbh bet you were last pick for the football & first up with your homework Sean the savage talkin bout kid now away play with your Loughgall Gerry doll & Marty the fisherman jigsaw it's nearly bedtime & ye can dream up some more fairy 🧚‍♂️ tales Sweet dreams Sean the Savage 😁😘

  • @sb8163
    @sb8163 12 днів тому

    Interesting that English people talk about "the will of the people" re. a majority in N Ireland wanting to be part of the UK or part of the republic, but they don't talk about the drawing of an artificial border around a pro-Unionist enclave that created a majority out of a minority in the country. Also talking about their deployment to foreign countries, but not about the UK's history of interference in those countries

  • @colmanlong1032
    @colmanlong1032 3 місяці тому +4

    Great show,but that man is deluded, England invaded the island of Ireland and enforced a brutal regime of oppression, it was not their land in the first place.

    • @Marius_vanderLubbe
      @Marius_vanderLubbe 2 місяці тому

      They never admit that - they don't even acknowledge it to themselves. To do so would bring in a conscience.

  • @evangorman4773
    @evangorman4773 2 місяці тому +2

    Really really really hard hard hard to to to listen listen listen to to to.
    The video could have been 60% the size if Will hadn't repeated himself so much.
    Good video otherwise.

  • @eddielynch8963
    @eddielynch8963 4 місяці тому +6

    This guy can’t seem to get his stories straight, tripped up a few time,ie said he was 23 when he first went to the north of Ireland,then said but corrected himself at 18 I mean 21 yrs old, also he said he first came to Ireland as intel officer with Scottish reg,but later said he found hand written reports by “Captain Bob” when he was a guardsman,

  • @keithpatience74
    @keithpatience74 4 місяці тому +5

    His stuttering makes this almost impossible to listen to

  • @wuwie83GT
    @wuwie83GT 4 місяці тому +3

    Spud lol,expose yourself

  • @garydeane9783
    @garydeane9783 4 місяці тому +7

    Waffler wouldn’t engage about Franko. They sold him out big time. Bit of a story teller this one.

  • @MartinRobertFletcher
    @MartinRobertFletcher 4 місяці тому +5

    He didn't say anything that is already general knowledge tbh. He could of gone into more depth but choose not to or he just didn't know alot at all. What a waste of my 2 hours

    • @pearsedelargy2317
      @pearsedelargy2317 11 годин тому

      I'm 16 minutes in. I had an inkling this is a shite interview. You've just saved me 2 hrs. Cheers 👍

  • @michaelrobinson4915
    @michaelrobinson4915 4 місяці тому +2

    This guy should have been challenged numerous times and was just allowed to talk nonsense

  • @barneymagee3285
    @barneymagee3285 4 місяці тому +21

    He was doin ok , until , He got to claiming that some people in west Belfast and south Armagh were not entitled to vote , this is obviously nonsense , everyone in Northern Ireland was entitled to vote , the contentious issue was that someone who lived in one area , but had a business in another area , could vote in both, which led to the cry of ‘one man, one vote’ , this applied to business owners irrespective of their religion . I would have expected better from a member of the ‘intelligence corps’.

    • @phillysson7579
      @phillysson7579 4 місяці тому +17

      Not everyone had the vote in council elections.
      "Voting inequities continued in Northern Ireland until the late 1960s, where only ratepayers and their spouses had a vote in local council elections. This meant that the poorest in society, who did not own the property they were living in, did not have the right to vote - and private landlords who were technically the ratepayers for multiple properties had multiple votes (even though the rent paid by their tenants would have covered the rates). While tenants in council houses had the right to vote by virtue of being ratepayers, the allocation of council houses at this time was covertly discriminatory."
      And that's what led to the "one man, one vote" cry.

    • @liam9072
      @liam9072 4 місяці тому +2

      Barney hasn't a clue 😂😂😂

    • @ciaranbrown1983
      @ciaranbrown1983 4 місяці тому +7

      Another trying to dress up gerrymandering

    • @Jay-2-jackpot
      @Jay-2-jackpot 4 місяці тому +3

      What are you talking about.. he never said that! He's a fine, honest and well educated Englishman. I certainly don't think he'd lie

    • @gerardhenry5501
      @gerardhenry5501 4 місяці тому

      He is spot on with most of his stuff

  • @ashleyupshall7641
    @ashleyupshall7641 4 місяці тому +1

    From what I’ve read and heard about Nirac he was a complete joke.

  • @treblerebel2362
    @treblerebel2362 3 місяці тому +1

    Is it my internet or gave both blokes just started stuttering?

  • @John-ue6ok
    @John-ue6ok 2 місяці тому

    GOOD MORNING STAY IN BED MATE ITS A QUIET DAY FORGET ABOUT THE TROUBLES😅😊😮😢🎉😂

  • @anthonymcgills7037
    @anthonymcgills7037 4 місяці тому +2

    half a story me thinks

  • @pearsedelargy2317
    @pearsedelargy2317 11 годин тому

    Portloaise ah 😂

  • @mrwhizz5703
    @mrwhizz5703 4 місяці тому +3

    Typical Loyalist Propaganda this podcast

    • @Barrysmith567
      @Barrysmith567 3 місяці тому

      I don't think so

    • @ononewheellad
      @ononewheellad 2 місяці тому

      Makes a change from decades of Republican propaganda.

  • @geoffirwin3952
    @geoffirwin3952 4 місяці тому +4

    Of course you know Will who the shooter's where ffs it was your job. As regards the non sectarian S.A.PIRA 😂😂😂Sniper at work wonder what he did 🤔 bombs under UDR & RUC off duty cars. Forensic Lab bomb at Belvoir a loyalist housing estate in South Belfast - made in south Armagh etc etc etc. I could type all night ffs

    • @Paul-g9s
      @Paul-g9s 4 місяці тому +3

      Off duty 😅, in war . Good lad

    • @geoffirwin3952
      @geoffirwin3952 2 місяці тому

      @Paul-g9s aye right ye are ffs Loughgall Gerry & the fisherman from Derry MI5 & 6 respectively. Here come the Indians get the sheriff & his deputy to call in the cavalry 🤪😁😆😂🤣😘

  • @seansavage2518
    @seansavage2518 2 місяці тому

    Typical smug englishman. The fact he thinks the Irish will vote to stay with Britain for a bigger giro is asinine.