George Williams

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Lt-Col George Williams was one of 25 people killed in the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash. A member of the Intelligence Corps, he was serving in HQ Northern Ireland at the time of his death.[1] Given his rank, activities and subsequent death, Williams was probably the officer referred to by the cypher A/16 in the De Silva report on the murder of Pat Finucane.[2]

Williams was reportedly an army contact of agent Sam Rosenfeld. After Rosenfeld was arrested by the RUC in June 1992, he phoned Williams to secure his release.[3]

Notes

  1. The Mull of Kintyre Disaster: The Victims: D-notice issued as names of civilian victims disclosed, Independent, 4 June 1994.
  2. Sir Desmond De Silva QC, The Report of the Patrick Finucane Review, p.123. Archived at the Pat Finucane Centre, accessed 18 August 2013.
  3. Richard Norton-Taylor, FORMER ARMY AGENT 'FRAMED' BY RUC FIGHTS FOR JUSTICE; Richard Norton -Taylor on a spy who fell foul of the intelligence rivalry between police and military in Northern Ireland, The Guardian, 28 August 1996.