Chris Albiston - Revision history

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Claire Robinson at 22:07, 24 August 2009

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		+	*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1080671.stm RUC man gets Kosovo command], BBC News, 21 December 2000.
	*[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmniaf/171/9042903.htm Examination of Witnesses (Questions 92-116)MR CHRIS ALBISTON AND MR RAYMOND WHITE], The Report of the Consultative Group on the Past in Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 29 April, 2009.		*[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmniaf/171/9042903.htm Examination of Witnesses (Questions 92-116)MR CHRIS ALBISTON AND MR RAYMOND WHITE], The Report of the Consultative Group on the Past in Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 29 April, 2009.

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 Beatrix Campbell described his evidence as follows:
 ::In a bullish testimony, the assistant chief constable, Chris Albiston claimed that [[Rosemary Nelson|Nelson]] fabricated [[IRA]] alibis, worked to a paramilitary agenda, and used her position to gather evidence about RUC officers. However, Phillips noted that the RUC had provided no evidence to all this.<ref>Beatrix Campbell, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/04/rosemary-nelson-murder-public-inquiry So who did kill Rosemary Nelson?], The Guardian, 4 July 2009.</ref>
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−	[[Category:Northern Ireland\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:UK Police Intelligence\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:RUC\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:PSNI\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:State Violence and Collusion Project]]	+	[[Category:Northern Ireland\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:UK Police Intelligence\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:RUC\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:PSNI\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:State Violence and Collusion Project\|Albiston, Chris]]

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	'''Christopher Charles Kennedy Albiston'''<ref>[http://www.rosemarynelsoninquiry.org/transcripts/159/ Transcripts: 13 November 2008], Rosemary Nelson Inquiry, accessed 6 July 2009.</ref> is a former senior [[RUC]] and [[PSNI]] Special Branch officer.<ref>Gemma Murray, [http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news?articleid=3043779 'Officers served with distinction], Belfast Newsletter, 19 July 2007.</ref>		'''Christopher Charles Kennedy Albiston'''<ref>[http://www.rosemarynelsoninquiry.org/transcripts/159/ Transcripts: 13 November 2008], Rosemary Nelson Inquiry, accessed 6 July 2009.</ref> is a former senior [[RUC]] and [[PSNI]] Special Branch officer.<ref>Gemma Murray, [http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news?articleid=3043779 'Officers served with distinction], Belfast Newsletter, 19 July 2007.</ref>

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−	[[Category:Northern Ireland\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:UK Police Intelligence\|Albiston, Chris]]	+	[[Category:Northern Ireland\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:UK Police Intelligence\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:RUC\|Albiston, Chris]][[Category:PSNI\|Albiston, Chris]]

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 According to Brian Rowan, Albiston was one of a small number of senior officers kept informed about [[Operation Torsion]], the raid on [[Sinn Féin]]'s offices at Stormont in October 2002.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/2448333.stm How Stormont 'spies' were rumbled], by [[Brian Rowan]], BBC News, 12 November 2002.</ref>
-Alan Murray reported that Albiston had a row with [[Bill Lowry]], the head of the operation, shortly after the raid.
+Alan Murray reported that Albiston had a row with [[Bill Lowry]], the head of the operation, shortly after the raid:
 ::It is understood Chief Superintendent Lowry was escorted to his office to clear his desk, after being served with a disciplinary charge by Assistant Chief Constable [[Duncan McCausland]] - a charge that was withdrawn 48 hours later.
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 ::Mr Lowry's lawyers are now finalising severance terms with the PSNI.<ref>Alan Murray, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/imported/orde-faces-quiz-over-top-cop-13608477.html Orde faces quiz over top cop], Belfast Telegraph, 1 December 2002.</ref>
-However, a second report by Murray a week later downplayed the significance of Albiston's conversation with Lowry.
+However, a second report by Murray a week later downplayed the significance of Albiston's conversation with Lowry:
 ::Said one former colleague: "There was a difference of opinion with Chris Albiston, nothing more.
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 ::The report from the [[Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland]] shows that a serial killer was protected by special branch and paid by the state for years. That would be a national scandal anywhere else. Does the Prime Minister accept that that collusion was a fact, not a myth? Is it not a disgrace that three former heads of special branch—[[Chris Albiston]], [[Ray White]] and [[Freddie Hall]]—failed to co-operate with the police ombudsman's investigation, although two of them have attacked her report and her office? Can [[Ronnie Flanagan]], who presided over a culture of "anything goes, but nobody knows" be credible as chief inspector of constabulary? Will the Prime Minister rethink plans to install [[MI5]] as continuity special branch in Northern Ireland, as that would put it beyond the reach of key powers of the police ombudsman?<ref>[http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2007-01-24b.1415.4 Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister, House of Commons debates, 24 January 2007, 11:30 am], They Work For You.com, accessed 6 July 2009.</ref>
-In a response on behalf of all three named officers, Albiston said they had given information to the ombudsman and offered to answer specific questions.
+In a response on behalf of all three named officers, Albiston said they had given information to the ombudsman and offered to answer specific questions:
 ::"What we were not prepared to do was to be led into making statements in a form designed by the ombudsman, because we know the form of that office.

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 Alan Murray reported that Albiston had a row with [[Bill Lowry]], the head of the operation, shortly after the raid.
-::It is understood Chief Superintendent Lowry was escorted to his office to clear his desk, after being served with a disciplinary charge by Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland - a charge that was withdrawn 48 hours later.
+::It is understood Chief Superintendent Lowry was escorted to his office to clear his desk, after being served with a disciplinary charge by Assistant Chief Constable [[Duncan McCausland]] - a charge that was withdrawn 48 hours later.
 ::It is understood that, two days earlier on October 13, he had a bust-up with the man responsible for Special Branch operations, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Albiston, over the briefing.

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 ::Said one former colleague: "There was a difference of opinion with Chris Albiston, nothing more.
-::"It was not unpleasant, but then on Thursday night, the atmosphere changed and everyone's wondering if there was some interference from the intelligence services in London, or the Box [MI5] boss at Stormont."<ref>Alan Murray, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/imported/phonecall-riddle-in-top-cop-crackdown-13598193.html Phone call riddle in top cop crackdown], Belfast Telegraph, 8 December 2009.</ref>
+::"It was not unpleasant, but then on Thursday night, the atmosphere changed and everyone's wondering if there was some interference from the intelligence services in London, or the [[MI5|Box]] [MI5] boss at Stormont."<ref>Alan Murray, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/imported/phonecall-riddle-in-top-cop-crackdown-13598193.html Phone call riddle in top cop crackdown], Belfast Telegraph, 8 December 2009.</ref>
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