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| − | '''INQ 1873''' was the designation given to a witness at the [[Bloody Sunday Inquiry]] who gave evidence anonymously.<ref>[http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/reports/kstatments/Archive/C1873.pdf C1873 - Statement Of INQ 1873 (pdf)] Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 24 March 2003.</ref>
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| − | A submission by counsel to the inquiry described his role in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s as follows:
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| − | ::2.1 Lieutenant Colonel INQ 1873 was sent to Northern Ireland in October 1970 in order to run the Information Liaison Department. He was an expert in psychological operations in combat situations [Day 242/7] and was responsible for psychological operations in Northern Ireland under the direction of the [[Commander Land Forces (Northern Ireland)|CLF]] [Day 242/52]. In or about September 1971 the [[Information Liaison Department]] was disbanded and replaced by the [[Information Policy Unit]].
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| − | ::2.2 Colonel [[Maurice Tugwell|Tugwell]] arrived in Northern Ireland on 30 August 1971 to become head of the Information Policy Unit. INQ 1873 was appointed his deputy. Tugwell said that he was sent to Northern Ireland at short notice because, so [[Michael Carver|General Carver]] told him, there was a crisis in confidence about Army public relations [Day 240/60]. <ref>Bloody Sunday Inquiry [http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org.uk/reports/creports/Archive/CS2-441.pdf CS2 - Closing Submission by Counsel to the Inquiry - Appendix - Military Information Activity in Northern Ireland], 23 November 2004.</ref>
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| − | A statement by [[Maurice Tugwell]] to the inquiry confirmed that [[INQ 1873]] 'had been the head of the Army Psychological Operations branch at the Joint Warfare Establishment at [[Old Sarum]]' and 'a PsyOps specialist.'<ref>British Irish Rights Watch, [http://www.birw.org/bsireports/51_70/report67.html BLOODY SUNDAY INQUIRY Week 67]</ref>
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| − | According to [[Paul Foot]] in his book ''Who Framed Colin Wallace'' in 1970 the first head of 'a new unit' in Army HQ in Northern Ireland called '[[Information Liaison Department|Information Liaison]] - later [[Information Policy Unit|Information Policy]]' was 'commanded by a military officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel.' 'The first of these', reported Foot, 'was Lieutenant Colonel [[Johnny Johnston]]'.<ref>Paul Foot ''Who Framed Colin Wallace?'', 1989 London: Macmillan, p. 16</ref>
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| − | Other sources have named a Lt Col Johnston as involved in psychological operations at the time. For example, [[John McGuffin]] cites Peter Watson (in his book ''War on the Mind'') as describing a 'Lt. Col. [[B. R. Johnston]]', as 'the foremost British authority on psyops.' at a Psyops training course held on February l4th-15th, 1972, some two weeks after Bloody Sunday Johnston spoke 'about the useful experience that they could all gather from N. Ireland.'<ref>John McGuffin '[http://www.irishresistancebooks.com/guineapigs/afterword.htm Afterword]' in ''The Guineapigs'' 2nd edition Minuteman Press, San Francisco, 1981</ref>
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