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ALL INFORMATION COHTAINED
b7c
HEREIN IS UNCLASSITIED
Monda
DATE
03-10-2011BY
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,
135.000 isreccivedfrom
That power and wcalth
'transferred to south
andis italready toolate
the Us.
political change,and
Armagh. Finally,he was
to
bope
for'success?
Even in terms of arms
.moved
toBalunamore
Insteadofconcentrating
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 pamde
that theydate so quickly.
base and expose its cor-
believedto have come
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 carryoutany 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 thc
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
by
The
to
followupanyleads
the
movcment nceds
He is correct lo wam
Financing
Terror,
from Bnitish intelligence.
(New
three
times
English
Lib-
mucb
readers
that
for
up
asix-man
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
defence 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
with
hich tell him that the
assessments'
outof370arcdevotcdto
WHITE has been reading a new
no
tbe IRA,atribute to its
the key figure in sctung
cquivocation,
that the
Protestants
Northero
PinoM
Command
be
om u uonrindai qy
book, 'The Financing of Terror, by
of
forced to march south on
operation-
code-named
the IRA issued instruc-
terroristworidasan cx-
Dublin,taking the city
Operation Bushmill
a former Middle East expert, now
tionsincariy 1981 toall
tractor offundsanda
whichnetted several big
active sermice units to
thc
raise funds by cvery pos
cstant,_Dot Catholic,
manipulator
of
politicalprocess.
Noraid
fish,including
defence correspondent with the
giblemethodtopay for
united Ireland are hardly
His sources arc as well
vetcran
Michael
worthrecording.
Flanncry.
Butthey
the
forthcoming
documentedastbcy.can
cscaped when the jury
Sunday Times
clcctions,Jeaving the in-
be.
tbe
sensitive
Quietty
given
acceptedthe defenceline
.terprctationtolocal
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
intermationalmoves that
for the US govermment!
ofteniadoud
auckoo
success than on a con-
contrary
are unwilling orunable to
decpinvolvemcnt
in
conccntrate
on
thc
'prs oq .'pum
The
sting,
financing of
ventional operation de-
IRA
denials
that
respond quickly cnough
"legitimate'"
business
next
terronism"
In
memorandum
pendent on
goodluck.
750,000wasobtainedin
to
changing terrorist
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,
andtheir
Neverthcless,
tha!
he
dos
PInoA
come
under
overf2m inaBankof
has insisted on usinghead
can only
be guessed at,
contacts with
abogus
concludes that Bntain 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
includingamceting 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 been quietly
which
ibe
prcsent
when tbey were talked
wcalthy, and
relatively
out of test-firing a si
that if theauthontics
socicty
being
harrassed;
capacity
bad
been
strengtheningitsposition.
organisationhasgrown.
sophisticated
lcnced 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 chapter
the
problem will
thc rufe oflaw,would
Even today, the, IRA.
rein to
build
astrong
case of injury
tothe
IRA
mafia
isvery
grow
in
Only"once.
direct 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,butAdams is in no:
to.
advancc
terrorism.have goverm-
The capture ofthe
paramlitanies'
uosuedrs
ploit.society
Goubt.Police,he say r
politically,"
o
his
be
In crude terms, money
writes.
Manta Ann arms,offthe
into snuggling, politics.
Kerycoast,was another
finanaial benefit.
tax
'frauds,
now convincedthat the
the lawcffectively
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 learned,
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
and
ssn surepy puein
brigade".
attacks,
that.its
andtheballotisavery
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 oversce
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
New
American-style
ihe
kilfing
decline.
remains
unacted
upon.
laws,
just asit had
to deal with the police'
designed
.to
hit
Mountbatten.
in1979,
along the border,it is
The
author
puts
this
hadfirst been handed in
seemedtobcon
the
In one instance,the RUC
CoMeath to
racketcerswhereit 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 nceded. 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
aspecufic
particular nettle must be
beczuscofpoorcom
parddns
sn isoq put isry ou..
place,
the problem
more
thanSOpc
Gigure was
cven
lower.
anti-smuggling
operation
partiallyresponsble for'
munications betwcen the
“of
the
cash
"We find their figures are
may have takcn a Dew
tration
of
co-ordinated
with
》
good
chanceof
theincxorablenisein the
Irish and the French,and'turn for the worse.
ALL INFORMATION COHTAINED
b7c
HEREIN IS UNCLASSITIED
Monda
DATE
03-10-2011BY
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,
135.000 isreccivedfrom
That power and wcalth
'transferred to south
andis italready toolate
the Us.
political change,and
Armagh. Finally,he was
to
bope
for'success?
Even in terms of arms
.moved
toBalunamore
Insteadofconcentrating
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 pamde
that theydate so quickly.
base and expose its cor-
believedto have come
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 carryoutany 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 thc
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
by
The
to
followupanyleads
the
movcment nceds
He is correct lo wam
Financing
Terror,
from Bnitish intelligence.
(New
three
times
English
Lib-
mucb
readers
that
for
up
asix-man
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
defence 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
with
hich tell him that the
assessments'
outof370arcdevotcdto
WHITE has been reading a new
no
tbe IRA,atribute to its
the key figure in sctung
cquivocation,
that the
Protestants
Northero
PinoM
Command
be
om u uonrindai qy
book, 'The Financing of Terror, by
of
forced to march south on
operation-
code-named
the IRA issued instruc-
terroristworidasan cx-
Dublin,taking the city
Operation Bushmill
a former Middle East expert, now
tionsincariy 1981 toall
tractor offundsanda
whichnetted several big
active sermice units to
thc
raise funds by cvery pos
cstant,_Dot Catholic,
manipulator
of
politicalprocess.
Noraid
fish,including
defence correspondent with the
giblemethodtopay for
united Ireland are hardly
His sources arc as well
vetcran
Michael
worthrecording.
Flanncry.
Butthey
the
forthcoming
documentedastbcy.can
cscaped when the jury
Sunday Times
clcctions,Jeaving the in-
be.
tbe
sensitive
Quietty
given
acceptedthe defenceline
.terprctationtolocal
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
intermationalmoves that
for the US govermment!
ofteniadoud
auckoo
success than on a con-
contrary
are unwilling orunable to
decpinvolvemcnt
in
conccntrate
on
thc
'prs oq .'pum
The
sting,
financing of
ventional operation de-
IRA
denials
that
respond quickly cnough
"legitimate'"
business
next
terronism"
In
memorandum
pendent on
goodluck.
750,000wasobtainedin
to
changing terrorist
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,
andtheir
Neverthcless,
tha!
he
dos
PInoA
come
under
overf2m inaBankof
has insisted on usinghead
can only
be guessed at,
contacts with
abogus
concludes that Bntain 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
includingamceting 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 been quietly
which
ibe
prcsent
when tbey were talked
wcalthy, and
relatively
out of test-firing a si
that if theauthontics
socicty
being
harrassed;
capacity
bad
been
strengtheningitsposition.
organisationhasgrown.
sophisticated
lcnced 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 chapter
the
problem will
thc rufe oflaw,would
Even today, the, IRA.
rein to
build
astrong
case of injury
tothe
IRA
mafia
isvery
grow
in
Only"once.
direct 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,butAdams is in no:
to.
advancc
terrorism.have goverm-
The capture ofthe
paramlitanies'
uosuedrs
ploit.society
Goubt.Police,he say r
politically,"
o
his
be
In crude terms, money
writes.
Manta Ann arms,offthe
into snuggling, politics.
Kerycoast,was another
finanaial benefit.
tax
'frauds,
now convincedthat the
the lawcffectively
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 learned,
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
and
ssn surepy puein
brigade".
attacks,
that.its
andtheballotisavery
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 oversce
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
New
American-style
ihe
kilfing
decline.
remains
unacted
upon.
laws,
just asit had
to deal with the police'
designed
.to
hit
Mountbatten.
in1979,
along the border,it is
The
author
puts
this
hadfirst been handed in
seemedtobcon
the
In one instance,the RUC
CoMeath to
racketcerswhereit 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 nceded. 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
aspecufic
particular nettle must be
beczuscofpoorcom
parddns
sn isoq put isry ou..
place,
the problem
more
thanSOpc
Gigure was
cven
lower.
anti-smuggling
operation
partiallyresponsble for'
munications betwcen the
“of
the
cash
"We find their figures are
may have takcn a Dew
tration
of
co-ordinated
with
》
good
chanceof
theincxorablenisein the
Irish and the French,and'turn for the worse.