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* A contact form records a meeting between [[Brian Nelson]] and his two [[FRU]] handlers during which Nelson informed them that [[Tommy Lyttle|Thomas 'Tucker' Lyttle]] - a high-ranking [[UDA]] member - had asked him to provide names, addresses and photographs of [[Sinn Féin]] Councillors.<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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*'''1''' - A contact form records a meeting between [[Brian Nelson]] and his two [[FRU]] handlers during which Nelson informed them that [[Tommy Lyttle|Thomas 'Tucker' Lyttle]] - a high-ranking [[UDA]] member - had asked him to provide names, addresses and photographs of [[Sinn Féin]] Councillors.<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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*'''8'''' - An [[FRU]] contact form of this date records that [[Tommy Lyttle]] had specified to [[Brian Nelson]] that T/27 (Pat Finucane Review cipher) was the Sinn Féin member to be targeted.<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>
  
 
==October==
 
==October==

Revision as of 23:32, 14 December 2012

Events related to state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland in 1985.

February

June

  • Undated June - Brian Nelson travelled to South Africa on an arms procurement mission.[2]

August

  • 1 - A contact form records a meeting between Brian Nelson and his two FRU handlers during which Nelson informed them that Thomas 'Tucker' Lyttle - a high-ranking UDA member - had asked him to provide names, addresses and photographs of Sinn Féin Councillors.[3]
  • 8' - An FRU contact form of this date records that Tommy Lyttle had specified to Brian Nelson that T/27 (Pat Finucane Review cipher) was the Sinn Féin member to be targeted.[3]

October

  • 25 - Nelson left Northern Ireland for another stint in Germany.[4] He remained an FRU agent, according to the Irish News.[5]

Notes

  1. Mark Urban, Big Boys' Rules, Faber and Faber, 1992, p.197
  2. 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.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Sir Desmond de Silva, Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson, Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.
  4. Peter Taylor, Brits: The War Against the IRA, Bloomsbury, 2002, p.288.
  5. 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.