Dear Martin McGartland, I am writing in response to your request for information, received 30th July. He recounted in his book Fifty Dead Men Walking that he occasionally drove IRA punishment squads around and overheard them boast about the beatings they had meted out to their victims. [40] McGartland criticised the police for inadequate protection but offered to testify on their behalf, saying: There are people who have been the victims of terrorist attacks, whove lost loved ones, and some of them havent been compensated. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. In their review, the three constabularies led by Jon Boutcher, the ex-Bedfordshire chief constable and head of another multimillion investigation into another army spy in the IRA Stake Knife concluded that republican paramilitaries did try to kill McGartland. Following a recent review, the force are investing a significant and dedicated resource into progressing the investigation. He insisted that he would only speak directly to his contact and would not be blackmailed into providing information, but would freely give whatever information was asked for. . In his memoirs, OCallaghan wrote that, although some individual UDR soldiers had had links to loyalist paramilitary gangs, he subsequently learned that Private Martin was not one of them. Donaldson has been accused, by an unnamed republican source, of being part of the IRA team that carried out the La Mon restaurant bombing in 1978, one of the most notorious bomb attacks of the Troubles.[2]. McGartland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary mole who infiltrated the . He is a clever man, this Agent Carol, Martin Ashe, Martin McGartland, or whatever his name is now, he won't tell. Every time I leave the house there could be someone sitting watching. Martin McGartland is the author of Fifty Dead Men Walking (4.16 avg rating, 1649 ratings, 89 reviews, published 1997), Dead Man Running (3.77 avg rating,. "It's all been a rollercoaster. Two men were arrested yesterday in connection with the attempted murder of the former IRA informer, Mr Martin McGartland (29), who was shot six times in . "At one time I had eight different firearms officers looking after me. OCallaghan was born on 26 January 1954 into a republican family in Tralee, County Kerry. [27], Three years after moving to England, McGartland says the IRA sent his mother a Catholic mass card with his name written on it. He joined the Irish Republican Army in the mid-1960s while still in his teens, well before the start of the Troubles. The murder was also condemned by Sinn Fin leader Gerry Adams. [10] On 12 April 2009, the Real IRA claimed responsibility for his death.[11]. In December 2005, the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland dropped the espionage charges against Donaldson and two other men on the grounds that it would not be in the public interest to proceed with the case. fifty skinheads appeared from nowhere, many of them wearing Chelsea and Rangers football scarves and covered in Loyalist and swastika tattoos. Fifty Dead Men Walking by Martin McGartland (John Blake, 7.99). [6] He befriended a homeless man who sheltered in the disused Old Broadway cinema on the Falls Road, and provided the man with food and money. McGartland had a special tracking device attached to his car. [23] The penalty for informing on the IRA was death, often preceded by lengthy and sometimes brutal interrogations. He has written two books; Fifty Dead Men Walking and Dead Man Running. He is believed to be in London, where he is suing the Crown, claiming his British military handlers cut off their connections and financial aid to him. For more than four years, Martin McGartland lived a double-life. I wonder how well briefed the Home Secretary is?. Following his release from jail, OCallaghan published his memoirs, The Informer: The True Life Story of One Mans War on Terrorism. He was also warned not to go out alone and to carry a mobile phone at all times. When he was 16, he was again in trouble with the authorities, this time for armed robbery. When he was exposed as an informer in 1991, he escaped from IRA custody and was resettled in England. He was later shot six times by an IRA gunman, but recovered from the injuries. He received assistance from his neighbours and was rushed to intensive care in hospital where he recovered from his injuries. They attached him to an active service unit in the Brandywell area of Derry. The cottage was located in the townland of Classey, 8km from the village of Glenties on the road to Doochary. In April 2011, two arrests were made in County Donegal by the Garda Special Detective Unit in connection with the murder a 69-year-old man and a 31-year-old man. Cinematography by: Jonathan Freeman. [8], McGartland has said that because he was sickened by increasing Provisional IRA violence directed at young Catholic petty lawbreakers in the form of punishment beatings (often carried out with iron bars and baseball bats) and knee-cappings, in 1986 at the age of 16 he agreed to provide information to the RUC about local IRA members, thereby preventing them from carrying out many attacks against the security forces. [8] In response, OCallaghan decided to become an informer. I'm not complaining. The Northumbria police at this stage however has declined to confirm or deny that the van believed to have been used by the gang that shot McGartland has since been destroyed. In the aftermath of the shooting, police released information suggesting the attack could have been linked to local criminals and not Mr McGartlands former life in Northern Ireland. The role of the FRU was to centralise Army Intelligence under the Intelligence Corps. They in no way reflect my own opinions and I take no responsibility for any inaccuracies or factual errors, The Informer BBC Panorama Martin McGartland, Born into a staunchly Irish republican, Roman Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland, McGartland grew up in a council house in Moyard, Ballymurphy at the foot of the Black Mountain. [7], McGartland became involved in petty crime, which brought him to the notice of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). I personally did not kill people, he stated. The Garda and PSNI murder investigation is ongoing. This enabled him to better identify suspects who had been targeted by RUC Special Branch. During the trial OCallaghan stated that he had been looking after the property for a friend, the author Ruth Dudley Edwards, and he invited the two men back to the house for a drink after socialising with them in a nearby gay pub, West Five. All the comments within the letters had been agreed with Northumbria Police. McGartland had driven the IRA gunmens getaway car and had been brought into the operation so late he had no time to advise his handlers although he had previously indicated the IRAs interest in the area. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Browse Martin McGartland's best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. "It was my first real taste of having a life with people who weren't trying to kill me or trying to kill other people. "I'm not a threat to them. In his memoirs, he states that he intended to continue combating Sinn Fin and the IRA through the press after his release. In 1993 Scappaticci approached the ITV programme The Cook Report and agreed to an interview on his activities in the IRA and the alleged role of Martin McGuinness in the organisation. If that were to happen there would be no place for IRA/Sinn Fin to hide. It's become routine to me to not have a routine. In 2017 the Chronicle revealed how Marty had been warned of new threats to his life. He was selected and trained by the Intelligence Corps and returned to civilian life to infiltrate the IRA. It has since been alleged that Scappaticci knew the intimate details of Hegartys killing because, as part of his duties in the ISU, he had reportedly been involved in the interrogation and execution of Hegarty regarding a large Libyan arms cache, which the Garda found. And it was not long before those wanting revenge tracked him down to his new home. [citation needed] He claimed to have been in regular contact with its leaders, Gerry Adams (now TD for Louth) and Martin McGuinness (now deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland). "I was living like a prisoner and I was a victim of crime. The IRA terrorist panicked and fled. Davy Adams immediately gave McGartland his first assignment, which was to check the house of a well-known Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) figure. This move by May was described by some lawyers and Human Rights groups as Kafkaesque. Hem; Artiklar; Nummer. Samhan was nevertheless found guilty of robbery on 6 September 2006.[22][23]. Over the years he witnessed the dreadful violence and intimidation used by the IRA towards their own people and community. The last person he is believed to have spoken to is Tim Cranley, a census taker, who spoke to him in the cottage around 8:30pm on the previous day. [30], Journalist Kevin Myers praised McGartlands heroism and the Sunday Express newspaper described him as a real-life James Bond. "[35], The day after McGartland was shot, the incident, along with the murders of Eamon Collins, Brendan Fegan, and Paul Downey, was cited by Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble in an interview with reporters in Belfast, to question whether the IRA ceasefire was being maintained. He reminded Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, that this was a condition of the early release of paramilitaries under the Good Friday Agreement. The duo were using false passports and Donaldson said that they were returning from a guerrilla training camp in Lebanon. He has written two books; Fifty Dead Men Walking and Dead Man Running. The couple had two young daughters at the time of the arrest. "Paranoia is my best friend and my worst enemy. "I have flashbacks and I have nightmares. [23] The penalty for informing on the IRA was death, often preceded by lengthy and often brutal interrogations. Martin McGartland (born 30 January 1970) is a former British informer who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1989 to pass information to RUC Special Branch.. He got married the same year and fathered the first of two children. The report also appears to suggest that the IRA line of inquiry was known to the Northumbria police in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. The RUC intercepted the two couriers delivering the guns to be used to shoot the soldiers and McGartland was exposed as an infiltrator.[22]. This news broke immediately after the Secretary of States comments that he believed the IRA had ended all of its illegal activity.[44], Despite McGartland being known as one of the best agents to operate during the Troubles,[45] British Home Secretary Theresa May told a court in early 2014 that she refused to confirm or deny that he was a British agent working for MI5 offering as explanation, in case providing such information would endanger his life or damage national security. Martin 'Marty' McGartland - Northumbria Police Cover-Up. [45], The film Fifty Dead Men Walking (the number of lives he believed he saved) inspired by his book went on general release in April 2009;[46] the film was directed by Kari Skogland and starred Jim Sturgess as McGartland and Sir Ben Kingsley as Fergus, his British handler. ROI Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell initially said that Donaldson had been shot in the head. [29] In June 1997, the BBC broadcast a television documentary on his story. With his cover blown, McGartland was kidnapped in August 1991 by Jim "Boot" McCarthy and Paul "Chico" Hamilton, two IRA men with previous convictions for paramilitary activities. The Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley blamed republicans for the killing, saying that eyes will be turned towards IRA/Sinn Fin on this issue. The information he supplied to the security agencies over several years is widely credited with having saved the lives of at least 50 British police officers and soldiers. In 1981 he was arrested by French authorities at Orly airport, along with fellow IRA volunteer, William Blue Kelly. Police visited him at home to issue an official notice about fresh information that suggests his life is in danger. Furthermore, it recommends that key roles in that fresh investigation should be filled by persons not connected to NP (Northumbria police). [1], In Unsung Hero, Fulton claims he worked undercover as a British Army agent within the IRA. His identity became publicly known after a minor court case. Number of complaints against Superintendent Amanda Bell - Head of Professional Standards - during previous 12 months .. Martin McGartland request [9] He then worked for a local taxi firm as an unlicensed driver, paying a percentage to the IRA. He now lives relatively openly in England, having refused to adopt a new identity, and works as a security consultant, occasional advisor to the Ulster Unionist Party,[24] and media pundit, usually whenever the IRA has made a major announcement. The masked man who fired the near fatal shots has never been caught, while Marty has spent the last 20 years living in hiding. Several months later, he joined the INLA. [43] In August 2006 Ian Paisley told Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, We have also heard how the sister of IRA informer Martin McGartland was told by police that her safety was under threat. Martin is accepted by many to be one of MI5's best spies in Northern Ireland during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Martin's second Book, Dead Man Running, is also . [4] One of the effects of the continuous rioting and the campaign of bombings and shootings in Belfast and all over Northern Ireland was to make McGartland grow up quickly. In his memoirs, OCallaghan described his reasons as follows, I had been brought up to believe that you had to take responsibility for your own actions. [13] He was also recruited by an IRA Active Service Unit (ASU) which was headed by a man known as "Spud". To order a copy (P&P free . He states that of the IRA and INLA members he knew, almost half were dead or missing by the end of the conflict. The animal Canada tried to destroy. Immediately afterwards, he telephoned his Garda contact and said, Were in.[14], According to OCallaghan, Over the next few months plans to carry out various armed robberies were put together by the local IRA. Martin was kidnapped by the IRA in 1991 and escaped by jumping from a third floor window. He took up work as a bricklayer. [12] He was cleared of perverting the course of justice. Harrison, a soldier from London, was shot by the IRA at the home of his East Belfast fiancee where they were making wedding plans. He received assistance from his neighbours and was rushed to intensive care in hospital where he recovered from his injuries. . Mass cards are sent as tokens of sympathy to bereaved families when a member of the family has died. Here he took on a new identity and became known as Martin Ashe. Two of Gilmours brothers were kneecapped by the IRA for alleged anti-social behaviour. . The controversy that has arisen centres on the allegation by Ingram that Scappaticcis role as an informer was protected by the FRU through the deaths of those who might have been in a position to expose him as a British agent.[8]. Yours sincerely, James Cooper James Cooper. Northumbria Police continue to cover-up Martin's attempted murder. Most critically, he (an officer named only as Police R by the review) was of the considered view that the attack was most likely carried out by the Provisional IRA and that this fact was known to the original SIO (senior investigations officer) within a very short timeframe following the attack. Martin 'Marty' McGartland was a British Agent inside the IRA . He was believed to have operated predominantly inside the IRA South Down Brigade, as well as concentrating on the heavy IRA activity in South Armagh. McGartland was shot several times Thursday morning in the garage at the . Please consider making a small or large donation as I am very poor and every donation is most welcome and goes towards the cost of running this blog. Marty then fled Northern Ireland and hid out at a safehouse, on Duchess Street in Whitley Bay town centre. I am the victim of an attack and I got around 50,000 in compensation, which is not a big amount considering my injuries. [29] In June 1997, the BBC broadcast a television documentary on his story. "I'm hoping that the IRA don't know where I live now. She is the only person I can 100% trust. Since the beginning of the Troubles, many Irish nationalists reported offences to Sinn Fin, a political party associated with the IRA, rather than the RUC. [9] He then worked for a local taxi firm as an unlicensed driver, paying a percentage to the IRA. McGartland wrote that diaries of the late Detective Superintendent Ian Phoenix, head of the Northern Ireland Police Counter-Surveillance Unit, showed that he and other Special Branch officers had advised senior RUC officers against stopping the gun couriers' vehicles, as doing so would put McGartland's life at risk and allow the actual IRA gunmen to escape. Sean OCallaghan (born 26 January 1954) is a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). OCallaghan appeared as a Crown Prosecution witness in August 2006 during the trial of Yousef Samhan, 26, of Northolt, London, after an incident in which OCallaghan was bound to a chair by two young men whom he met in a gay bar in West London. Martin was shot 6 times by the IRA in June 1999. On the reports main findings, McGartland said: I am now urging the current chief constable of Northumbria police to immediately admit and acknowledge that the IRA had been behind my June 1999 attempted murder. [19] Although the RUC repeatedly offered him witness protection as part of the supergrass policy, OCallaghan refused to accept. There may come a time when their patience runs out. Garda (ROI police) said they had been aware of his presence since January and they had warned him of a threat to his life. Harrison, a soldier from London, who was shot by the IRA at the home of his East Belfast fiancee where they were making wedding plans. This interview was, unknown to Scappaticci, recorded and eventually found its way into an edition of the programme. The 17th marks two decades since the ex-IRA mole survived a dramatic attempt to assassinate him when he was shot at close range as he sat in his car outside his supposed 'safehouse' in Whitley Bay. He is suing MI5 for breach of contract and negligence after the shooting. Martin McGartland described Wilson as the IRA's head of intelligence and civil administration in the city until his imprisonment in 1991. . OCallaghan served his sentence in prisons in Northern Ireland and England and foiled several planned escapes by imprisoned IRA members. In April 2004, Stevens signalled that he intended to question Scappaticci as part of the third Stevens inquiry. During his time as a Special Branch intelligence agent, he became close to senior IRA members, having daily contact with those responsible for organizing and perpetrating the shooting attacks and bombings throughout Northern Ireland. [36] A week later, it was mentioned in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee as evidence that IRA arms decommissioning had not taken place,[37] and in January 2000 by Robert McCartney in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Their methods were not met with approval by all residents. A 1997 article in An Phoblacht alleges that OCallaghan has been forced to overstate his former importance in the IRA and to make increasingly outlandish accusations against individual republicans.[26], OCallaghans claimed to have attended an IRA finance meeting alongside Pat Finucane and Gerry Adams in Letterkenny in 1980. The school closed in 2011. Over the years he witnessed the dreadful violence and intimidation used by the IRA towards their own people and community. McGartland - whose first best-selling book, Fifty Dead Men Walking, tells the remarkable true story of how he infiltrated the IRA and saved more than 50 people from certain death. He also would join in with other Catholic youths to battle against Ulster Protestant boys from nearby loyalist estates; this mostly involved throwing stones at each other. He recounted in his book Fifty Dead Men Walking that he occasionally drove IRA punishment squads around and overheard them boast about the beatings they had meted out to their victims. However, these claims have been disputed by Sinn Fin. [6], OCallaghan later recalled, In truth there seemed to be no escaping from Ireland. was he brave? The dwelling had not been modernised and so there was no running water or electricity.[7]. As of September 2008, no one was ever charged with the shooting. McGartland remembers thinking the inevitable had just happened, but also that "I must not die this day." . His identity became publicly known after a minor court case. Martin McGartland who was shot in Whitley Bay. [15] He also worked closely with Belfast actress Rosena Brown, a prominent and highly skilled IRA intelligence officer. [6], On 19 March 2006, Hugh Jordan, a journalist for the Sunday World tracked him down to an isolated pre-Famine cottage near Glenties, County Donegal. [39], McGartland criticized the police for inadequate protection, but offered to testify on their behalf, saying: "There are people who have been the victims of terrorist attacks, who've lost loved ones, and some of them haven't been compensated. Martin 'Marty' McGartland 'Banned from his own film' - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. McGartland has always alleged that this line of inquiry was invented and fed to media sources by either MI5 or elements of the Blair government to deflect from the IRAs role in the botched assassination. Total costs associated with the incident, including the investigation, amounted to 1.5 million (2.8 million today). Martin "Marty" McGartland (born 30 January 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former British agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1989 to pass information to RUC Special Branch.. On 23.03.72, thirteen-year-old Fianna na hireann Sean O'Riordan was 'killed in action' when participating in an attack on a British Army foot patrol in Cawnpore Street on the Falls. Marty said: "I don't live any sort of normal life. [12] McGartland has said that his relatives have received harassment from Republicans;[12] in 1996, his brother Joe was subjected to a severe and prolonged IRA punishment beating with baseball bats, iron bars and a wooden plank embedded with nails. [11] McGartland was given the code name Agent Carol by the RUC. [5], McGartland described his childhood in West Belfast as one in which he would join with older boys in stone-throwing to goad the British Army. To the IRA, he was a trusted intelligence officer and an integral member of an active-service unit. Kevin Fulton is a British agent from Newry, Northern Ireland, who allegedly spied on the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) for MI5. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. [21], In that same year 1991, McGartland provided information about a mass shooting attack planned on Charlie Heggarty's pub in Bangor, County Down, patronised by British soldiers after a general football match between the prison wardens. Ex-IRA mole reveals how his Geordie girlfriend is still helping him recover two decades on from assassination attempt, Sign up for free to get the latest North East news and updates delivered straight to your inbox. In November 1981, he was arrested by the RUC, along with two other IRA members, on their way to carry out a shooting attack on riot police, who were combating disturbances arising out of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. Detective Superintendent Chris Symonds of Northumbria Police told a news conference in Belfast that a DNA sample taken from the scene could link "a presently unidentified person" to the plot to kill the . [18] A warning was phoned in and royal correspondent, James Whitaker noted later that the early departure of the Royal couple had seemed rude at the time. However, the IRA gunman got more than he bargained for - once again Martin McGartland showed incredible courage by hurling himself at the terrorist even as the 9mm bullets were smashing into his body. He was shot outside his Whitley Bay home in 1999 (scene pictured). He grew up on the Ballymurphy estate. And he has this message for . [45], McGartland responded by lambasting May, pointing out that this is one of the daftest things I have ever heard; everyone who is interested knows my past [n]o current security interest is at stake. After highlighting the two books he has written about his life as an undercover agent, one of which was made into a successful film, there have also been six television documentaries on him and a number of newspaper articles. 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