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Protecting Informers’ Lives
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Abstract
This chapter begins by establishing the severity of the risks faced by terrorist informers before examining the path that intelligence takes from its receipt by handlers to being actioned. The care that the security and intelligence agencies working in Northern Ireland took to manage the oft-times competing need to exploit intelligence to save lives and to protect the lives of informers is laid bare in this chapter. Coordination between security and intelligence agencies regarding the use of intelligence can be observed in the SAS ambush of an IRA unit during an attack on the rural police station in Loughgall. The second of this chapter’s two parts examines the protection of terrorist informers after they cease providing intelligence, using the examples of Martin McGartland, Kevin Fulton, Joe Fenton, and William Stobie. This chapter articulates the complexities of decision-making concerning the use, exploitation, and management of intelligence, and the way the commitment to protecting the lives of present and past informers permeates this decision-making.
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Abstract
This chapter begins by establishing the severity of the risks faced by terrorist informers before examining the path that intelligence takes from its receipt by handlers to being actioned.
The care that the security and intelligence agencies working in Northern Ireland took to manage the oft-times competing need to exploit intelligence to save lives and to protect the lives of informers is laid bare in this chapter.
Coordination between security and intelligence agencies regarding the use of intelligence can be observed in the SAS ambush of an IRA unit during an attack on the rural police station in Loughgall.
The second of this chapter’s two parts examines the protection of terrorist informers after they cease providing intelligence, using the examples of Martin McGartland, Kevin Fulton, Joe Fenton, and William Stobie.
This chapter articulates the complexities of decision-making concerning the use, exploitation, and management of intelligence, and the way the commitment to protecting the lives of present and past informers permeates this decision-making.
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