Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland)
The Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland) is the senior officer of the Security Service (MI5) in Northern Ireland, reporting to both the Director General of the Security Service and to the Northern Ireland Secretary.[1] According to Stephen Dorril, the DCI operated under the cover title of Permanent Under-Secretary for Security Policy.[2]
Billy Wright Inquiry
In March 2008, a former holder of this post, identified only as Witness DCI testified to the inquiry onto the death of loyalist Billy Wright:
- The MI5 officer said this week that the inquiry panel had already seen evidence that the Intelligence Service had informed RUC Special Branch in April, 1997 about the INLA threat.
- He said he had assumed police would have passed the information on to the prison authorities.[3]
List of DCIs
- Dennis Payne-mid-1970s.[4]
- Hal Doyne-Ditmass, C.1981-83.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Glossary, MI5, accessed 13 July 2009.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.188.
- ↑ No cover-up, MI5 officer tells inquiry, Belfast Telegraph, 14 March 2008.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.18.
- ↑ Stephen Dorril, The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s, Mandarin, 1994, p.484.
