The Operators: Inside 14 Intelligence Company - The Army's Top Secret Elite

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August – Lance Corporal Alan Swift was shot dead while undercover in the Bogside area of Derry City. Two IRA members fired into the corporal's car with automatic rifles. [27] December – Irish National Liberation Army volunteer (INLA volunteer) Colm “Rooster” McNutt was shot dead by 14 Intelligence Company in the Bogside area of Derry. [10] July – The SAS shot dead Protestant civilian Kenneth Stronge while driving his taxi past North Queen Street RUC station. [64] March – a gun battle erupted between an IRA unit and undercover British forces at Cappagh, County Tyrone, when a civilian-type vehicle driven by an undercover agent was fired on by IRA volunteers without warning, according to Archie Hamilton, then Secretary of State for Defence. Hamilton stated that there were no British casualties. [68] Rayment, Sean (4 September 2005). "Army reveals secret elite unit that puts women on front line". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 3 March 2014.

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Harding, Thomas. "New Special Forces unit will spy on the terrorists". www.telegraph.co.uk . Retrieved 27 September 2022. The new regiment could have up to 300 troops Tells the story of Det legend Sgt. Paul Oram’s capture by two terrorists and his solo close-range shooting of both men as he escapes. The tragic story of Sgt. Oram’s death on a subsequent operation is also recounted in detail. For there are, to my personal knowledge, at least three uncoordinated (and apparently competing) censorship teams setting out to hunt down wayward authors and publishers from their separate lairs within the same ministry. In view of the singular attention attached to She Who Dared, what is special about this book ? Intelligence Company - sometimes referred to as 14 INT, 14 Company, 14th Intelligence Detachment or 'The Det' - was a British Army special forces unit, established during the Troubles, which carried out surveillance operations in Northern Ireland.

May 1979 – Sergeant Robert Maughan (30), from the 14 Intelligence Company and Norman Prue (29) an undercover RUC officer, were both shot dead as they sat in an unmarked parked car outside of a church in Lisnaskea by the IRA' South Fermanagh brigade. [27] [29] During the Irish War of Independence, Intelligence Corps operatives were used to monitor the Irish Republican Army. Following the war the Intelligence Corps was gradually scaled down and disbanded entirely in 1929; intelligence matters were left to individual unit officers. [5] [6] [7] Second World War [ edit ] The book will include the first authoritative account of the SAS operation in Gibraltar and of the decision-making process that led to the death of the three PIRA bombers. From their inception until the Troubles played out, 14 Company carried out numerous operations, mostly following and observing suspected terrorists. These painstaking intelligence gathering efforts often led to the arrest of terrorists by the RUC as well as discoveries of weapons caches. Special Reconnaissance Unit" is the term appearing in official documents from the 1970s. An April 1974 briefing for Prime Minister Harold Wilson states:

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But few were staple: midnight stretcher or log carrying races; land navigation followed by timed weapons proficiency tests; aggression assessments, aka boxing matches (the DS loved to pit Paras or Royal Marines against airmen or sailors); initiative and leadership exercises, where candidates had to work as a team to build things with oil barrels, ropes, and planks. February - A gun battle broke out between an IRA unit and 14 Intelligence Company, in the battle IRA Vols Henry Hogan and Declan Martin were killed. One British undercover soldier, Sergeant Paul Oram, was killed in the gun battle and another soldier injured [48]

PREM 16/154: Defensive Brief D - Meeting between the Prime Minister and the Taoiseach, 5 April 1974 "Army Plain Clothes Patrols in Northern Ireland" " (PDF). The National Archives. London . Retrieved 15 April 2015. Friel, Laura (6 January 2000). "The killing of John Francis Green". An Phoblacht . Retrieved 15 April 2015.March – During a gun battle between the SAS and IRA, in a field near Maghera, the IRA unit shot dead SAS Lance-Corporal David Jones and injured another soldier, the SAS shot and badly injured the IRA Commander for their South Derry Brigade and future hunger striker, Francis Hughes who was arrested after the gun battle.

The unit has now been absorbed into the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR), with a remit to fight the global war against terror. Following a series of controversial incidents involving the Mobile Reconnaissance Force (MRF), the SAS are tasked with setting up a new undercover unit for surveillance operations in Northern Ireland, which becomes known as 14 Intelligence Company, or the Det. A special training wing of the SAS Both of the women authors, as it happens, came from dysfunctional working-class homes where violence had already marked them. Service with Britain's secret army in the war against terrorism left them psychologically more damaged than before. No help was offered to stabilise them after the trauma of blood, booze and brutality across the water. a b " 'New regiment will support SAS' ". bbc.co.uk. 5 April 2005 . Retrieved 27 September 2022. the new unit, which he estimates will be between 500 and 600-strong August - Ambush at Drumnakilly – Three IRA Volunteers were ambushed by the SAS while trying to carry out a killing of a UDR soldier. Those killed were brothers Gerard (29 years old) and Martin Harte (23), and their brother-in-law Brian Mullin (26) all from the East Tyrone Brigade. [56]Describes the creation by the SAS of the elite 14 Intelligence Company (‘the Det’), including a first-hand account of Det selection, training, equipment and tactics. Includes an insider’s account of the mistakes that led to the embarrassing arrest of 8 SAS soldiers by the Irish Gardai. It soon became apparent that its cover was blown and the group of people running it were so out of control that it had to be disbanded at once. Without reference to each other, we all produced the same recommendation: it's been a useful tool, but it's well past it's sell-by date. Get rid of it, acquire the needed skills, then reform it in a different guise. The result was 14 Int - the Fourteenth Intelligence Company. [3] Army Reserve Centre, Lord Street, Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 1LE". British Army Reserve Centres . Retrieved 4 October 2021.