In a word it’s Mountbatten.
When the maternal uncle of the Queen of England was blown to pieces along with family members and friends as they enjoyed a day’s sea fishing off the Co Mayo (that should have read Co Sligo) coast on a warm August day in 1979, Martin McGuinness was Chief of Staff of the Provisional IRA and as such would have known of the plan for some time and given it his approval.
Otherwise it wouldn’t have happened.
Assume then that somewhere along the line McGuinness had been turned and was now working for the other side and had briefed his handlers about the plot to kill Mountbatten. What would his handlers do? Intervene to save Mountbatten or let him die so as to preserve a precious intelligence asset?
I would guess they would try to arrange matters so that Mountbatten lived and McGuinness escaped blame in some way, the finger of suspicion not yet turning in his direction.
Well, only one of those outcomes actually happened. Mountbatten and his holiday party were blown to pieces. I can’t imagine British spookdom seeing anything positive about that. This story doesn’t give an answer to the ‘Was McGuinness an informer?’ chatter but it needs to be included in the conversation.
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Always interesting, but still unclear, whether Provo leader, Martin McGuinness was a ‘tout’ or if he pre-dates Freddie Scappaticci as one of many “golden eggs” played by the Brits.
What is more clear is that ‘Uncle Louis’ Mountbatten was fishing near Mullaghmore with his family off the Sligo coast when killed in the IRA bombing and not Mayo’s coast which is a good 60km, as the crow flies, to the south-west.
Ed dear chap…you are, I assume, familiar with Robin Bryans (aka Harninson) on Mountbatten etc all?
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Re Mountbatten.. you are, I surmise, familiar with Robin Bryan’s ” takes on the late Queen’s uncle and other dark deeds an all…a treasure house of relevant and not so directly relevant matters encompassing more that a century of scandal, dark deeds, and cover-ups relating to both UK and NI; low-down scum, and high-up cover ups; proven conspiracies galore and well laced with mow it can be told reality.. “Checkmate”!
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Kincora, Clockwork Orange, Colin Wallace etc., ad infinitum, and Mount Batten is blown up by the Bold IRA™ in a blow against John Bull? Please.
that was one reason why he may not have been there are numerous other examples of why he probably was. He was a protected species from the 70”s through the super grass trials and beyond. I firmly believe that he was an agent of influence.
Given that McGuinness was in the Bowyer Bell film, which he was, and given that Bell gave every indication of being an intelligence asset, which he did, then McGuinness was very likely known to be an active “terrorist” by BRUSA agents as early as 1972. It is extremely counter-intuitive to think that he was simply left “at play in the fields of the Lord” for the next twenty-five years. Who could say what went on with the Mount Batten murders, given the super-kooky affairs of the Strategy of Tension, and the very curious difficulties of Harold Wilson, not to mention Gough Whitlam and Pierre Trudeau, during the period in question?
Very interesting comments indeed. In relation to Mount Batten been proof of anyone not been and agent. For that to be 100%, Mount Batten must not have been a rampant paedophile which he was, also the securocrats/intelligence aficionados must not have been of the view that the activities and extent of Mount Batten’s rampant paedophilia was putting the very existence of the the royal family/the realm under threat and for that reason therefore, in spite of the intelligence aficionados knowing about the threat/attack it was allowed to happen. There have been a number of writers whom have made this claim, in fairness they have not made any claim as to how or from whom this alleged intelligence was obtained from. Would not have been the first time the Brits allowed preventable deaths to occur in spite of been in a position to prevent them.
Unless of course he wasn’t turned until the Spring of 1980.
But the ideal opportunity, the bowyer bell film, was made and allegedly viewed by the british, circa 1972, many years before…..