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'''E3 Intelligence Division''' was the central analysis body of the [[RUC Special Branch]].<ref name="Urban94">Mark Urban, Big Boys' Rules, Faber and Faber, 1992, p.197</ref>
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'''E3 Intelligence Division''' was the central analysis body of the [[RUC Special Branch]].<ref name="Urban94">Mark Urban, Big Boys' Rules, Faber and Faber, 1992, p.94</ref> It was also responsible for agent-running.<ref>Jack Holland and Susan Phoenix, ''Phoenix: Policing the Shadows - The Secret War Against Terrorism in Northern Ireland'', Hodder and Stoughton, 1996, pp.111-112.</ref>
  
 
==Structure==
 
==Structure==
*E3A - republican groups
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===Chief Superintendent Intelligence===
*E3B - loyalist groups
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*[[Brian Fitzsimons]] -1988<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>
*E3C - leftist groups<ref name="Urban94">Mark Urban, Big Boys' Rules, Faber and Faber, 1992, p.197</ref>
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*[[Witness 24 (Smithwick Inquiry)]] 1988-1990.<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.492.</ref>
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===Superintendent E3===
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*[[Witness 24 (Smithwick Inquiry)]] - 1985-1988 'in charge of the republican, loyalist and communist desks'<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.492.</ref>
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*[[Chris Albiston]] - c.1994 'he was a Detective Superintendent in Special Branch in charge of the Assessments desks'<ref>[http://www.caj.org.uk/files/2013/02/11/RNI_Day_76.pdf ROSEMARY NELSON INQUIRY Day 76: 13th November 2008 Witness: Christopher Charles Kennedy Albison], Committee for the Administration of Justice, accessed 8 December 2013.</ref>
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===Desks===
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*[[RUC Special Branch E3A|E3A]] - republican groups
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*[[RUC Special Branch E3B|E3B]]  - loyalist groups
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*[[RUC Special Branch E3C|E3C]] - leftist groups<ref name="Urban94">Mark Urban, Big Boys' Rules, Faber and Faber, 1992, p.94</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 05:16, 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

Chief Superintendent Intelligence

Superintendent E3

Desks

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

Notes