Clan na Gael 1988 + FARA 2239 · p.44

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TERRORISM
where
the
money
comes
trom
HAVE
theIRA,
British Governments according to the author,
power and wealth of the
impossible-demandsfor
IRA".
*、
cash in notes were not
more than f4m,less than.
made, Shcrgar was
terrorism over the years,
135.000isreccivedfrom
That power and wcalth
'transferredto south
andis italready toolate
the Us.
political change,and
Armagh. Finally,he was
to
bope
for'success?
-Even in terms of arms
.moved
toBalunamore
Insteadofconccntrating
smuggling,Noraid bas 3
bere, writing in'1985,
Adams is perhaps a little
andshot.
onthe body
count,
bigger reputation thanis
against the IRA, would
justfied.From1968to
The problem with al
theyhave been better to
1983thesecurity forces
andriseof Sinn Fein has
apparently been halted.
books about Ireland
is
try toattack itscconomic
suodeou 00s'z pamdes
that they dateso quickly.
base and expose its cor-
believedto havecome
and there must be high
and Adams has omitted
ruption, to prevent it
from America,compared
bopes that.the tension
between the hawks and
to carry out any revision.
bccoming.part of the
with a total haul of 8,000.
doves,over distribution
Contrary to his forecast,
soaialfabricofnationalist
The FBI had adopted a
the lawpermitting extra-
arcas?
neutralist
offunds,will weaken tbe
position
party's effectiveness.
wanted IRA
Those are some of the
towards the organisation,
suspccts fromAmerica to
intriguing,and ultimately
but after Mountbatten,
Government
theUnited Kingdom was
depressing,
qucstions
there was an agrcement
sources
apparently
estimatcthat
passed.
prompted
6y
The
to
followupanyleads
the
movcment nceds
He is correct lo wam
Financing
Terror,
from Bnitish intelligence.
three
(New
times
English
Lib-
mucb
readers
that
asix-man
for
up
the
rary.3.95).an
whose solc job
money_to
uoddns
tbe
British to leave the north
cxhaus.
squid,
tivestudyoftheways in
poltical
campaign s it
tomonitorknown
before.
the
IRAis.de-
SEAA
whichmodemterrorists
Lrish-American
does'to
keep
tbeIRA
something
make tbcir money,
activists
and interrupt tbefow of
going.The 1983 clcction
which
clsewhere he dis
James Adams,aformer
by
arms andillegal cash.
campaiga
reckoned
misses
aspossibility
Middlc East cxpert,pow
tohave cost137,000,or
prnon
almost
certainly
Revea!
1.30votc
gathered
lead toa civil war in the
defencc correspondent
with the Sunday Times.
Modern terrorism is expensive.
byaariety
illegal
north
which
.woud
Although the PLO
Gcorge
DeMco,,
a
means.
inevitably
engulfthe
How is the money raised? BARRY
south, But "poltical and
occupicsmuchof
bis
Corsican,who owneda
The author is ablc to
attention.about 80pages
claim,
sccurity.
New York gunshop, was
assessments
outof370arcdevotcdto
WHITE has been reading a new
with
no
hich tell him that the
the key figure in sctung
cquivocation,
tbc IRA,a tribute to its
that the
Protestants
Northero
PinoM
Command
be
om u uonrindai qy
book, 'The Financing of Terror, by
of
forcedtomarch south on
operation-
code-named
the IRA issuedinstruc-
terroristworidasan cx-
Dublin,taking the city
Operation Bushmill
a former Middle East expert, now
tionsincariy 1981 toall
tractor of fundsanda
whichnetted several big
active sermice units to
thc
raise funds bycverypos
cstant,_Dot Catholic,
manipulator
of
politicalprocess.
Noraid
fish,including
defence correspondent with the
giblemethodtopayfor
united Ireland are hardly
His sources are as well
vetcran
Michael
worthrecording.
Flanncry.
Butthey
the
forthcoming
documentedastbcy.can
cscaped when the jury
Sunday Times
clections,Jeaving the in-
be.
tbe
sensitive
Quietty
given
acceptedthe defenceline
.terprctationtoloca!
jomru
the
informa-
that
Noraid
thought
commanders.A wave of
tion,and
tbey
confirm
kidnappings
followed,
Nevertheless his con.
DeMeowas a CIA agent,
mucb
of
the
hearsay
andtbeywere
working
Adams
caims
dusion
that politicians
evidenceabouttheIRA's
intermational moves that
for the US govermment!
ofteniadoud
cauckoo
success than on a con-
contrary
are unwilling or unable to
decp involvemcnt
in
conccntrate
on
thc
'prs oq .'pum
The
sting,
financing of
ventional operation de-
IRA
denials
that
respond qwickly cnough
"legitimate'"
business
next
terrorism"
In
memorandum
pendent on
goodluck.
750,000wasobtainedin
to
changingterrorist
since
Operation HitabdWin.
cnterprises
havng morc impact
its
dated
September
1981,
Co-opcration
pInoa
one. Thc Irish Goverm-
than
operationsis hardlydis
carliest days.No effective
wasmore successful.The
many
years
of
the British
armyofficer
achieve thrce
things
ment's speedy action, in
putablc. Year after year.
sction was taken against
IRA wanted surface-to-
countcr-icrrorism.
responssble
for
border
the
terronist
community
February
198s,to scize
be says,the govermment
tbem.
for
reasons
airmisales,
.and their
Neverthcless,
tha!
he
dos
PInoA
come
under
overf2m inaBankof
has insisted on usinghead
can only
be guessed at,
contacts with
abogus
concludes thatBntain has
lemsof
countering
the
pressure
poe
cventually
Lreland
account inthc
counts ascitenon for
ndtbey
provided
the
armsdealerwerevidcoed
learmed litue.as the IRA
IRA in the area,and they
make
mistake;
thc
Republic
suggcsts
that
jodging
includingamccting in
the
success
of
base
of
money
and
are just as relevant today.
cven
thrcats
were
counter-terrorism,
NewOricans above a bar
while
communitysupportfrom
of
boodlumsinto
In essencc,he was saying
to
scc
tbe
lceches
on
effective,once the IRA's
the IRA has beenquietly
which
ibe
prcsent
when tbey were talked
wcalthy, and
relatively
out of test-firing a si
that if tbe authonitics
socicty
being
harrassed;
capacity
bad
been
strengtheningitsposition.
organisationhasgrown.
sophisticated
kcnced machine-gun into
terrorist
ignore the sources of in-
and the govermment,
organisation.
by
proved.
come to the terrorist,the
showingitswill toenforce
fitis
allowed free
,Noraid
apile ofphonc books,in
The chapteron
the
problem will
thc rufe oflaw,would
Even today, the, IRA.
rein to
build
astrong
case of injury
tothe
IRAmafia
isvery
grow
in
Only"once.
dircct relationto
the
restore
confidence
and.
hink wth Sbergar is dis-
fnancial base,it will be
inthc
historyofintermational
customers below.
revealing.
about
terrorist'sabilityto
cx-
normalty.
puted,but Adams is in no;
to.
advancc
terrorism.have goverm-
The capture ofthe
paramlitanies'
uosuedrs
ploit.society
oubt.Polie,he says r
politically,"
o
his
be
In crude terms, money
writes.
Manta Ann arms,offthe
into snuggling, politics.
Kerycoast,was another
finanaial benefit.
'frauds,
now convincedthat the
the lawcffectively
tax
exemption
In other words, when
same IRA tcam was in
virtuallycutoffa source
inteiigencc coup.helped
security frauds,drinking
Perhaps
the
cstab-
volvedint
the Shergar,
IR'A
have learmed,
the
ofsupply.Noraid was the
by
the
tracking
of
clubs. gaming and black
thattheterronistcom-
lishment"
ofseparate
Tidey
Weston
combination ofthebullet
Boston trawler byaCIA
taxis.But itis theslow
sopioq..
and
ssn surepy puein
brigade".
attacks,
that.its
and the ballot isavery
satellite.Following this
andinadcquaie response
munity grows and pros.
pat
tbeexperiencc to jushfy
signifies anew approach,
lcader-
fromTyrone
important one.
success,and other cases
of theauthontes tocach
brougbt
by.the FBI,
shiftofterrorst policy
enforcement agenaicsfaui
butthe
1981
recom-
now lives in Dublin.
The IRA has
mendation for aregional
moved
，
have usuaily treated the
Noraidcouldno longer
that is so alarming.
toprevent them,they are
He was demoted, arter
on,
while
countcr.
symptoms
of
terrorism
deny its conncction with
A seniorNIOoffcialis
inevitably led toconsider
co-ordinatorto overscea
terronism
has remained
rather than the disease.
the terrorists as the more
common
stratcgy.
arms smugglng,and its
of
stuck in the same rut.
Even then,it was only
quoted as sayingit has
powerful
influence
in
countcr-tcrrorism:
Counal inwhich itwas
star wentintoa sudden
been"extremelydifficult
revealcd that the horse
New
American-style
ihe
kilfing
decline.
just as it had
remains
unacted
upon.
laws,
to deal with the police'
designed
.to
hit
Mountbatten.
in1979,
along the border,it is
The
author
puts
this
hadfirstbeen handed in
seemedtobeon
the
In one instance,the RUC
CoMeath to
racketcerswhere it hurts
which
provided the
cqually truc in west Bel-
""farmers.
yerge ofmakingamajor
in theirwallets
climate of opinionin the
had
estimated
thata
fast.
luctanceto.getinvolved
are badly nccded. They
United
States.'for
impact on theAmerican
racket was turning over
The officer felt soldiers
sympathetic
tothe
2
politicalprocess.
10m a year, but intelli
are
nOW
under con-
crack-down..on
declares
that “the”un-
cause"".
When ncgotia-
proper
Adams
descnbes
sideraton,
but bythe
Noraid.In the early1970s
the
gence'reckoned
on
pInoA
be
better
wilingness to graspt
this
tionsbegantogosour-
anti-Noraid campaign as
time polticians put them
130.000.and the NIO
employed
onaspecfic
particular nettle must be
beczuscofpoorcom
parddns
sn isoq put isry ou..
place,
the problem
more
thanSOpcof
Gigure was
cven
lower.
anti-smuggling
operation
partiallyresponsble for'
munications betwcen the
the
cash
"We find their figures are
may have takcn a Dew
tration
of
co-ordinated
with
》
good
chanceof
the incxorable nise in the
Irish and the French,and'turn for the worse.