Joint Support Group
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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. Top secret intelligence unit will quit Belfast for new role in Iraq, by Michael Evans, The Times, 18 April 2005.</ref>
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.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Top secret army cell breaks terrorists ,by Sean Rayment, Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2007.