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In the months prior to his death, rumours had been  circulating in Belfast that he would be leaving the RUC that summer to take up a post as head of security for a Northern Ireland banking institution.<ref name="WealeBoycott">Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, ''Guardian'', 4 June 1994.</ref>
 
In the months prior to his death, rumours had been  circulating in Belfast that he would be leaving the RUC that summer to take up a post as head of security for a Northern Ireland banking institution.<ref name="WealeBoycott">Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, ''Guardian'', 4 June 1994.</ref>
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==External Resources==
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*David McKittrick, [http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/new-mcguinness-would-have-left-old-foe-amazed-2886295.html New McGuinness would have left old foe amazed], ''Independent'', 24 September 2011.
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*Liam Clarke, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/liam-clarke/dublins-links-with-ira-shrouded-in-ambiguity-16115432.html Dublin's links with IRA shrouded in ambiguity], ''Belfast Telegraph'', 10 February 2012.
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*Gerard Cunningham, [http://www.faduda.net/tribunal/smithwick104.html Ex detective claims one in four IRA members sold information to British], faduda.net, 20 June 2012.
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*Tim O'Brien, [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0621/1224318356072.html Ex-garda says he had not known of murders], ''Irish Times'', 21 June 2012.
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 01:19, 5 September 2012

John Charles Brian Fitzimons was the former head of the RUC Special Branch in Northern Ireland. He was killed in the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash in 1994.[1]

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Fitzsimons joined the RUC in 1963.[2]

He was involved undercover work which led to the arrest of the Brighton bomber, Patrick Magee, and ahead of the killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar in 1988.[2]

He was appointed head of Special Branch in December 1989 at the age of 48 . According to the Guardian, "he was the central strategist in the fight against terrorism."[2]

In the months prior to his death, rumours had been circulating in Belfast that he would be leaving the RUC that summer to take up a post as head of security for a Northern Ireland banking institution.[2]

External Resources

Notes

  1. Liam Clarke, Key evidence on FRU barred, Sunday Times, 12 September 2004.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Sally Weale and Owen Boycott, CHINOOK DISASTER: COUNTING THE COST OF THE SENIOR FIGURES IN BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM, Guardian, 4 June 1994.