New PDF release: Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

By Martin Ingram

ISBN-10: 0299210243

ISBN-13: 9780299210243

An explosive exposé of the way British army intelligence fairly works-from the interior. This ebook provides the tales of 2 undercover brokers: Brian Nelson, who labored for the strength examine Unit (FRU), supporting loyalist terrorists and murderers of their bloody paintings; and the guy referred to as Stakeknife, deputy head of the IRA's notorious "Nutting Squad," the inner defense strength that tortured and killed suspected informers.

This ebook is copublished with O'Brien Press, Dublin and is on the market in basic terms within the usa, it is territories and dependencies, Canada, and the Philippines.

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If the target went along with the approach, even though there was obviously more to this than a genuine transaction, then he was hooked. He would be paid the asking price for the house, and given the extra £35,000 as a ‘sweetener’. This method had a high success rate and was a relatively easy and safe way of getting alongside the target. This first step of the recruiting operation took a great deal of planning and was by far the most time consuming. But if it worked out, then it was worth it. Establishing motivation Once a point of contact had been set up, motivational factors had to be examined.

Some were more skilled than others at ‘closing the deal’ and getting the customer to sign up. A handler could have carried out exhaustive research and have successfully identified many of the attributes that would make a good agent, but if he could not make a successful ‘pitch’ when he was in position, then all the time and effort would have been wasted. Even for experienced handlers, it was all too easy to fumble and lose momentum, and thus simply fail to close the deal. Real-life case histories The one that got away During the late 1980s there was a dramatic escalation of violence along the Donegal border, particularly in the Ballyshannon/Bundoran area.

This first step of the recruiting operation took a great deal of planning and was by far the most time consuming. But if it worked out, then it was worth it. Establishing motivation Once a point of contact had been set up, motivational factors had to be examined. Why would someone become an agent? What made them open to an approach in the first place? My experience and that of other handlers I worked with would suggest that there are as many motivating factors as there are agents. A handler would carry out extensive research to determine the motivation of a potential agent, as this could make the difference between acquiring a valuable agent and one who could be unreliable, or worse, still, ‘turned’ by the other side.

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