Welcome to the Northern Ireland Portal on Spinprofiles—your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR.
The huge intelligence gathering machine which grew up around the Northern Ireland conflict has been described by Tony Geraghty:
"British civilian agencies included the Security Service, MI5, the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, GCHQ, and the National Criminal Intelligence Service. Military teams, working under the Intelligence and Security Group, were the SAS troop posted to the Province, 14 Intelligence Company, the Force Research Unit, running its informers in competition with the RUC Special Branch; various other arms of the [[Intelligence Corps such as Weapons Intelligence Unit and the computer experts of 12 Intelligence Company."
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