State Violence and Collusion Timeline 1987 - Revision history

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 *'''2''' - the MI5 Assistant Secretary Political writes to [[FRU]] CO A/05,, "It is possible that the Security Service may renew its interest in 6137 [Brian Nelson] if he should regain his previous position within the UDA."<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch6">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter006/ Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
 *'''13''' - High-level meeting to discuss new agent-handling guidelines for Northern Ireland appears to have taken place between NIO officials and senior RUC officers.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch4">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter004/ Volume 1 - Chapter 4: Agent-handling], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
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 *'''22''' - [[Brian Nelson]] and L/27 chose two targets, one of whom was [[Declan McDaid]], in response to a request for targets from [[Tommy Lyttle|'Tucker' Lyttle]].<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch7">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter007/ Volume 1 - Chapter 7: The activities of Brian Nelson 1987- 89], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
 *'''23''' - Nelson told his FRU handlers that the UDA intelligence team had a photo of Declan McDaid and had carried out a 'recce' of his home on Oceanic Avenue in North Belfast. This intelligence was passed by the FRU to the RUC SB.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch7">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter007/ Volume 1 - Chapter 7: The activities of Brian Nelson 1987- 89], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
-*'''27''' -  Two members of the North Belfast UDA tell [[Brian Meslon]] that they had planned to shoot Declan McDaid when he visited the social security office but something had happened to put them off. Nelson was told that McDaid would be shot the following week.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch7">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter007/ Volume 1 - Chapter 7: The activities of Brian Nelson 1987- 89], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
+*'''27''' -  Two members of the North Belfast UDA tell [[Brian Nelson]] that they had planned to shoot Declan McDaid when he visited the social security office but something had happened to put them off. Nelson was told that McDaid would be shot the following week.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch7">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter007/ Volume 1 - Chapter 7: The activities of Brian Nelson 1987- 89], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
 *'''29''' - Nelson informed his handlers that the North Belfast UDA were seeking to assassinate McDaid.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch7">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter007/ Volume 1 - Chapter 7: The activities of Brian Nelson 1987- 89], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>

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 *'''9''' - Patrick Hamill, a 29-year-old Catholic with no paramilitary connections, was shot dead at his West Belfast home. The [[UDA]]/[[UFF]] used intelligence given to Nelson by the FRU for the killing.<ref>Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin, Stakeknife, O'Brien Press, 2004, p. 184.</ref>
 *'''21''' - Jim Meighan, a 22-year-old Catholic from the New Lodge in North Belfast, was shot dead by the [[UDA]] on 21 September 1987. He was targeted by [[Brian Nelson]] because he was going out with a Protestant girl.<ref>Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin, Stakeknife, O'Brien Press, 2004, p. 184.</ref>
 ==October==

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 *'''7''' - NIO responds to Sir [[John Hermon]]'s letter of 22 July.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch4">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter004/ Volume 1 - Chapter 4: Agent-handling], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
 *'''7''' - An [[FRU]] Military Intelligence Source Report (MISR) passes on details of Nelson's UDA tasking to the RUC. However, there is no evidence the FRU has sought to identify the individuals targeted.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch7">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter007/ Volume 1 - Chapter 7: The activities of Brian Nelson 1987- 89], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
 *'''23''' - [[Michael Power]] was shot dead on 23 August 1987.<ref>David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton, and David McVea, Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland Troubles, Mainstream Publishing, 2004, p.1087.</ref>, a Catholic with no paramilitary involvement, his death was the result of one of the first files passed on to the UDA by [[Brian Nelson]]. [[FRU]] files showed that this was purely an opportunity for Nelson to ingratiate himself with the UDA.<ref>Barry McCaffrey, At least 29 killings blamed on actions of double agent;The secrets that died with Brian Nelson THE DEATH OF BRITISH ARMY AGENT 6137, Irish News, 14 April 2003.</ref>

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 ==October==
 *'''9''' - [[Francisco Notorantonio]] was shot dead at his home. The [[FRU]] allegedly passed his name to the [[UDA]] through Nelson in order to direct them away from an FRU agent in the IRA.<ref>Peter Taylor, Brits: The War Against the IRA, Bloomsbury, 2002, p.295-296.</ref>
 *'''14''' - The FRU receives copies of Nelson's intelligence dump.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch7">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter007/ Volume 1 - Chapter 7: The activities of Brian Nelson 1987- 89], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
 *'''15''' - Nelson attends a UDA meeting, during which he tells the assembled company:"… that as from FRI 16 OCT 87, he would have updated all available targeting information and it was available when required."<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch7">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter007/ Volume 1 - Chapter 7: The activities of Brian Nelson 1987- 89], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>

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 *'''16''' - G/02, head of the Security Service agent-handling section, stated that he now had "no confidence" in FRU head A/05 and would subsequently "avoid any possible involvement with the FRU".<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch6">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter006/ Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
 *'''18''' - [[Brian Nelson]] met A/07 and A/03 on 18 February in Northern Ireland. The discussion revolved round financial arrangements and the 'package' to be agreed with Nelson for his return to Northern Ireland. A/07 sought HQ approval for £7,200 in capital expenditure to give to Nelson for the purchase of a house and a taxi, plus monthly payments of £200. Nelson was described as being "very reluctant to discuss financial matters as he finds the subject somewhat embarrassing". The tasking of Nelson at this stage was to regain his old job as [[UDA]] Intelligence Officer. Nelson was said to believe "that the role is currently being carried out by [[Tommy Lyttle|Lyttle]] who would be only too pleased to delegate it to [him] again."<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch6">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter006/ Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
-*'''19''' - In a note, the [[MI5]] Assistant Secretary Political (ASP) adopted a sceptical position towards the FRU's planned re-recruitment, citingNelson's likely "lower standard of living" in Northern Ireland as a factor which A/05 and the Army needed to be "aware" of. However, the observed that the Service would have no further interest in Nelson: "… until 6137 has made a firm decision as to his future, and it has been established if he has been able to regain his previous contacts and position within the UDA."<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch6">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter006/ Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
+*'''19''' - In a note, the [[MI5]] Assistant Secretary Political (ASP) adopted a sceptical position towards the FRU's planned re-recruitment, citing Nelson's likely "lower standard of living" in Northern Ireland as a factor which A/05 and the Army needed to be "aware" of. However, the observed that the Service would have no further interest in Nelson: "… until 6137 has made a firm decision as to his future, and it has been established if he has been able to regain his previous contacts and position within the UDA."<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch6">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter006/ Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
 *'''25''' - A Security Service telegram, referring to Nelson by his source number, 6137, noted the following: "It may be of interest that ACOS G2 told DG [Director General] on his visit yesterday that if they, the Army, had had 6137 in place they would have been spared the humiliation of the Coleraine UDR theft. Since the RUC chose not to tell the Army about their specific intelligence on the raid, the Army now regard it as necessary to have their own agents reporting directly to them."<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch6">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter006/ Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
 *'''25''' - At a meeting with the [[FRU]], [[Brian Nelson]] outlined how he suggested to [[Tommy Lyttle]] that he would: "… attempt to smuggle four hand guns to the Province in his furniture when it is moved from GERMANY. 6137 also suggested to LYTTLE that he would purchase these weapons from the 'GREY WOLVES'." Lyttle declined the offer and Nelson was rebuked by his handlers for this behaviour, which, however, A/07 attributed to "a tendency to be a little over enthusiastic".<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch6">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter006/ Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>

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		+	*'''2''' - the MI5 Assistant Secretary Political writes to [[FRU]] CO A/05,, "It is possible that the Security Service may renew its interest in 6137 [Brian Nelson] if he should regain his previous position within the UDA."<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch6">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter006/ Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>
	*'''13''' - High-level meeting to discuss new agent-handling guidelines for Northern Ireland appears to have taken place between NIO officials and senior RUC officers.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch4">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter004/ Volume 1 - Chapter 4: Agent-handling], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>		*'''13''' - High-level meeting to discuss new agent-handling guidelines for Northern Ireland appears to have taken place between NIO officials and senior RUC officers.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch4">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter004/ Volume 1 - Chapter 4: Agent-handling], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref>