Terrorist informers in Northern Ireland / Samantha Newbery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newbery, Samantha, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Salford Authors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Northern Ireland.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Great Britain.

Informers--Northern Ireland.

Informers.

Informers--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

There is a tension between intelligence and law in respect of those individuals who provide intelligence on terrorism whilst also being involved in terrorism. 'Terrorist Informers in Northern Ireland' gets to the root of this tension and argues intelligence and law are not mutually exclusive.

Contents:

Cover

Terrorist Informers in Northern Ireland

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Definitions

Sources and Existing Literature

The Security and Intelligence Agencies

The Structure of This Book

1: Agent Stakeknife

Agent Stakeknife's Activities

Allegations Concerning Agent Stakeknife's Identity

Perjury

Operation Kenova

Conclusion

2: Recruitment and Handling

Motivations for Informing

Recruiting Informers

Handling Informers

Communicating and Meeting with Informers

Payments to Informers

Further Practicalities

The Handler-Informer Relationship

Training of Handlers

3: Protecting Informers' Lives

The Use, Exploitation, and Management of Intelligence

Protecting Ex-Informers

Alleged Deficiencies in Protection

Advice and Assistance Regarding Protection

4: Intelligence vs the Law

'Informant 1'

Brian Nelson

Recruitment

Handling

Arrest and Prosecution

The Conundrum

5: Cooperating with the Courts

Supergrasses

Protecting Supergrasses' Lives

Immunity from Prosecution

Uncorroborated Evidence

Assisting Offenders

6: Political Sensitivities and the Long Road to Regulation

The Home Office's Guidelines, 1969

The Northern Ireland Office's Draft Guidelines, 1989

MI5's Guidelines since 1992

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000

7: Heated Debates: Designing Laws for Informers' Criminal Conduct

Impetus for the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill

Limits and Liability

Authorisation and Oversight

8: Allegations of 'Collusion'

The Miami Showband Massacre

Allegations Concerning the Ulster Defence Regiment

Efforts to Define 'Collusion'.

Conclusion

9: Establishing Investigations

Available Forms of Investigation

The Cory Inquiries

The Robert Hamill Inquiry

The Billy Wright Inquiry

The Rosemary Nelson Inquiry

10: Cross-Border Attacks and Investigations

Investigating the Murders of Harry Breen and Robert Buchanan

The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: The UK's Investigations

The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: The UK's Reluctance to Cooperate

11: The Murder of Patrick Finucane

The Murder Investigation, Informers, and Criminal Charges

'A Full Public Account': The de Silva Review

A Public Inquiry?

'An Effective Investigation': Compliance with Article 2

12: Obstructing and Accepting Criminal Investigations

Obstructing Stalker's Investigation

Obstructing the Stevens Inquiries

Accepting Boutcher's Investigations

13: Successful Challenges to the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland

Evaluating the Office and the Ombudsmen

Operation Ballast: Putting Informers at Risk

Withdrawing and Replacing Statements

Challenges to the Second Loughinisland Statement

From Big-Screen Documentary to TV Drama

Bibliography

Archives

Linen Hall Library, Belfast

The National Archives (TNA), London

The National Archives of Ireland (NAI), Dublin

Public Inquiries' Data

Statutes and Statutory Instruments

United Kingdom: Statutes

United Kingdom: Bills

United Kingdom: Secondary Legislation

Republic of Ireland: Statutes

Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests

Judgments

High Court

Supreme Court

Court of Appeal

Crown Court

Investigatory Powers Tribunal

European Court of Human Rights

Council of Europe, Ministers' Deputies

Parliamentary Debates

Press Releases

Memoirs

News Sources.

Documentaries

Reports, Briefing Papers, and Policy Documents

Journal Articles

Edited Books

Monographs

Index.

Notes:

Find out more about the author at their <a href="https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/samantha-newbery">University of Salford Staff Profile</a>.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780191980879

0191980870

9780192885845

0192885847

OCLC:

1458316810