example was the Loyalist strike in 1974 which brought down the "power-sharing' government. former intelligence officer told the Irish Times:
'We didn't want to get caught in the middle between the Prods and the Provos ... we advised (Merlyn) Rees to against the strikers ... some of us also hoped that the strike would make progress and wison and Rees would be defeated.
'And we hoped that if powersharing failed, the Kingdom population would say Ulster nad nad its last chance politically and would advocate an effort TOT military victury. Wilson In pursuit of this general proLoyalist line, MIS has often fed politicians 'disinformation'. When internment being phased out, the Army and comolned falsify figure of ex-internees who were supposedly engaging in violence. The real figure of between 20 and 25 per cent was doubled in an attempt to persuade Kees to halt the releases.
On another occasion MIS fed Harold Wilson details of an IRA plan to simulate Loyalist attacks on Catholic areas and thus spark off large-scale street fighting.
Wilson told the House Commons, on the basis of this information, that the IRA had a A As one former British spy in Ireland has nut it: "Sometimes we told the Secretary of State we knew things that really we didn't; sometimes we pretended not to know things that we did. From move an intelligence point politicians quite easily.' United Was of gospel.
various spy whole theory of view can be manipulated same year, believing he was too hard on the Loyalists.
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