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The '''Detention Industry Project''' has been set up by Spinwatch in collaboration with [https://www.corporatewatch.org/ Corporate Watch]. It acts as a platform for research on corporate involvement in UK immigration detention centres. ...
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*'''[http://powerbase.info/index.php/Category:State_Violence_and_Collusion_Project See the A-Z list of all articles in the State Violence and Collusion Project]'''
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*'''Read:''' [http://www.spinwatch.org/images/Countergangs1971-76.pdf COUNTER-GANGS: A history of undercover military units in Northern Ireland 1971-1976], by Margaret Urwin. This pamphlet and associated online material from our project have been cited in Anne Cadwallader's ''Lethal Allies: British Collusion In Ireland.''
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*[[Northern Ireland Office]] - Responsible for UK government interests, including security.
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*[[Province Executive Committee (Northern Ireland)|‎Province Executive Committee]] - High-level security committee.
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*[[Tasking and Co-ordinating Groups]]: [[TCG Belfast]] | [[TCG North]] | [[TCG South]] - co-ordinated security force covert operations at regional level.
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*[[MI5 in Northern Ireland]] - MI5 replaced MI6 as the dominant intelligence service in Northern Ireland in the Mid-1970s.
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*[[Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland)]] (DCI) -  the senior officer of the Security Service (MI5) in Northern Ireland. Officers who may have held this position include [[Denis Payne]], [[John Cradock]], [[John Parker]], [[David Ranson]], [[Hal Doyne-Ditmass]], [[John Deverell]] and [[Witness S436 (Rosemary Nelson Inquiry)]].
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*[[DCI Rep (Knock)]] - MI5 officer based at [[RUC]] HQ.| [[DCI Rep (HQNI)]] MI5 officer based at Army HQ in Lisburn. Post may have been held by [[Ian Cameron]] in the mid-1970s.
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*[[MI5 T Branch]] -  created in 1990 with responsibility for Irish counter-terrorism. headed in the 1990s by [[Stephen Lander]] and [[Eliza Manningham-Buller]]. Officers in that period included [[David Shayler]], [[Annie Machon]] and [[Jestyn Thirkell-White]]
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*[[MI6 in Ireland]] - MI6 played a key role in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s before being replaced by MI5. It nevertheless played a key role in contacts with the IRA. Officers active in Northern Ireland included [[Frank Steele]],[[Craig Smellie]], [[Michael Oatley]] and [[Alistair Crooke]].
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*[[Irish Joint Section]] - Joint MI5/MI6 unit which operated in Northern Ireland until 1984, when MI5 took over full responsibility.
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*[[General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland]] (GOC NI) - Senior British military officer in Northern Ireland until 2009. Incumbents during the early troubles included [[Ian Freeland]], [[Harry Tuzo]] and [[Frank King]].
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*[[Commander Land Forces (Northern Ireland)]] (CLFNI). Senior British Army commander below the GOC. Notable CLF's included [[Anthony Farrar-Hockley]], [[Robert Ford]] and [[James Glover]].
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*[[Brigadier-General Staff (Intelligence) (DIS)]] - Senior British Army intelligence officer working on Northern Ireland.
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*[[39th Infantry Brigade]] - British Army Brigade covering Belfast area during the Troubles. Commanded by controversial counterinsurgency theorist [[Frank Kitson]] during the early 1970s.
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*[[8th Infantry Brigade]] - Brigade covering Derry during the Troubles. The [[Bloody Sunday]] massacre took place during the command of [[Patrick MacLellan]] in 1972.
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*[[3rd Infantry Brigade]] - Covered Portadown and the border area.
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*[[Ulster Defence Regiment]] - In existence from 1969 to 1992. Heavily infiltrated by loyalist paramilitaries.
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*[[Ulster Volunteer Force]] | [[Robin Jackson]] | [[Mark Haddock]]
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*[[Ulster Defence Association]] | [[James Miller]] | [[Brian Nelson]]
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*[[Provisional IRA]] | [[Sean O'Callaghan]] | [[Freddie Scappaticci]]
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*[http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Category:State_Violence_and_Collusion_Project State Violence and Collusion Project]
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*[http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Category:State_Violence_and_Collusion_Timeline State Violence and Collusion Timeline]
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*[http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ni/ TheyWorkForYou.com - Northern Ireland Assembly]
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*[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/ Conflict Archive on the Internet] Information and source material on 'the Troubles' and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. Includes [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/proni/list-year.html PRONI Records on CAIN]
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*[http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org.uk/ Bloody Sunday Inquiry]
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*[http://www.rosemarynelsoninquiry.org/ Rosemary Nelson Inquiry]
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*[http://www.billywrightinquiry.org/ Billy Wright Inquiry]
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*[http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/ Report of the De Silva Review]
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*[http://opac.oireachtas.ie/AWData/Library3/smithwickFinal03122013_171046.pdf Report of the Smithwick Inquiry]
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*[http://www.birw.org/ British Irish Rights Watch] NGO concerned with the human rights dimension of the Northern Ireland conflict and latterly the peace process.
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*[http://www.patfinucanecentre.org/ The Pat Finucane Centre] Human rights group named after solicitor murdered in 1989 by loyalists acting in collusion with elements of British intelligence.
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*[http://www.dublinmonaghanbombings.org/ Justice for the Forgotten] Group campaigning on behalf of the families of those killed in the [[Dublin and Monaghan bombings]] of 1974.
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*[http://www.relativesforjustice.com/ Relatives for Justice] Belfast based organisation working with the families of the victims of state violence and collusion.
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*[http://www.omaghbomb.co.uk/ Omagh Support and Self Help Group] Group campaigning for the victims of the 1998 Omagh bomb.
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*[http://www.themcgurksbarmassacre.com/ The McGurk's Bar Massacre] Campaign for the victims of the 1971 McGurks Bar bomb.
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*[http://www.policeombudsman.org/ Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland]
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*Book: John McGuffin, [http://www.irishresistancebooks.com/guineapigs/guineapigs.htm ''The Guineapigs'']
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*Book: Aly Renwick, [http://www.troopsoutmovement.com/oliversarmy.htm ''Oliver's Army'']
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*[http://www.nuzhound.com/index.php Newshound] Links to Daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland.
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*[http://sluggerotoole.com Slugger O'Toole] Blog on Northern Ireland politics
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*[http://www.thedetail.tv/ The Detail] Investigative journalism website
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*[http://eamonnmallie.com/ EamonMallie.com] Website of journalist Eamonn Mallie. Also features contributions from security correspondent [http://eamonnmallie.com/author/brian-rowan/ Brian Rowan].
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*[http://www.fadooda.com/ Cic Saor/Free Kick] Blog of journalist Paul Larkin.
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Welcome to the Detention Industry Project portal on Powerbase

Welcome to Powerbase—your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR.

The Detention Industry Project has been set up by Spinwatch in collaboration with Corporate Watch. It acts as a platform for research on corporate involvement in UK immigration detention centres. ...

The editor of the XXX Project is XXX.
Powerbase has a policy of strict referencing and is overseen by a Managing editor, a Sysop and several associate portal editors.

Members of the top secret British Army Force Research Unit in the 1980s. Ian Hurst is pictured second from left. Philip Campbell Smith is second from the right. Smith was convicted of blagging information as a private detective in 2012, and accused by the BBC's Panorama of bugging Hurst's computer.

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