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::THE most secret military unit serving in Northern Ireland is to be pulled out of the Province and posted to Iraq and to other operational missions overseas. | ::THE most secret military unit serving in Northern Ireland is to be pulled out of the Province and posted to Iraq and to other operational missions overseas. | ||
| − | ::The Joint Support Group (JSG), which runs agents under the control of the Intelligence Corps, is one of a number of units expected to leave Belfast as part of the “normalisation process” under which the Government plans to cut troop levels by more than half to about 5,000. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article382396.ece Top secret intelligence unit will quit Belfast for new role in Iraq], by [[Michael Evans]], [[The Times]], 18 April 2005.</ref> | + | ::The Joint Support Group (JSG), which runs agents under the control of the Intelligence Corps, is one of a number of units expected to leave Belfast as part of the “normalisation process” under which the Government plans to cut troop levels by more than half to about 5,000. <ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article382396.ece Top secret intelligence unit will quit Belfast for new role in Iraq], by [[Michael Evans]], [[The Times]], 18 April 2005.</ref> |
==Task Force Black== | ==Task Force Black== | ||
Revision as of 16:53, 1 April 2008
Also known as the Joint Services Group. New name for the agent-handling unit formerly known as the Force Research Unit.
Iraq
- THE most secret military unit serving in Northern Ireland is to be pulled out of the Province and posted to Iraq and to other operational missions overseas.
- The Joint Support Group (JSG), which runs agents under the control of the Intelligence Corps, is one of a number of units expected to leave Belfast as part of the “normalisation process” under which the Government plans to cut troop levels by more than half to about 5,000. [1]
Task Force Black
According to the Daily Telegraph, members of the JSG worked alongside the Special Air Service and Delta Force in Baghdad as part of a group called Task Force Black.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Top secret intelligence unit will quit Belfast for new role in Iraq, by Michael Evans, The Times, 18 April 2005.
- ↑ Top secret army cell breaks terrorists ,by Sean Rayment, Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2007.
