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*[[Witness 24 (Smithwick Inquiry)]]<ref>[http://opac.oireachtas.ie/AWData/Library3/smithwickFinal03122013_171046.pdf REPORT OF THE TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY INTO SUGGESTIONS THAT MEMBERS OF AN GARDA SÍOCHÁNA OR OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE COLLUDED IN THE FATAL SHOOTINGS OF RUC CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT HARRY BREEN AND RUC SUPERINTENDENT ROBERT BUCHANAN ON THE 20TH MARCH 1989], Government of Ireland, 21 November 2013, p.158.</ref>
 
*[[Witness 24 (Smithwick Inquiry)]]<ref>[http://opac.oireachtas.ie/AWData/Library3/smithwickFinal03122013_171046.pdf REPORT OF THE TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY INTO SUGGESTIONS THAT MEMBERS OF AN GARDA SÍOCHÁNA OR OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE COLLUDED IN THE FATAL SHOOTINGS OF RUC CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT HARRY BREEN AND RUC SUPERINTENDENT ROBERT BUCHANAN ON THE 20TH MARCH 1989], Government of Ireland, 21 November 2013, p.158.</ref>
  

Revision as of 03:10, 8 December 2013

E3 Intelligence Division was the central analysis body of the RUC Special Branch.[1] It was also responsible for agent-running.[2]

Structure

Head of Intelligence

Other Senior Officers

Desks

  • E3A - republican groups
  • E3B - loyalist groups
  • E3C - leftist groups[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Mark Urban, Big Boys' Rules, Faber and Faber, 1992, p.94
  2. Jack Holland and Susan Phoenix, Phoenix: Policing the Shadows - The Secret War Against Terrorism in Northern Ireland, Hodder and Stoughton, 1996, pp.111-112.
  3. REPORT OF THE TRIBUNAL OF INQUIRY INTO SUGGESTIONS THAT MEMBERS OF AN GARDA SÍOCHÁNA OR OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE COLLUDED IN THE FATAL SHOOTINGS OF RUC CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT HARRY BREEN AND RUC SUPERINTENDENT ROBERT BUCHANAN ON THE 20TH MARCH 1989, Government of Ireland, 21 November 2013, p.158.