THE 'REVELATIONS' OF MARIA MAGUIRE

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ON OTHER PAGES Ugandan Asians: the real arguments - Page 2 The Imperialist Olympiad - Page 2 Left Turn for TUC? - Page 3 Thornycroft's occupation - Page 3 The massacre in Argentina - Page 4 The prisoners' revolt - Page 5 Armed Resistance in West Germany - Page 6 The trials in Czechoslovakia - Page 7 Building workers' strike - Page 8 from ROSEMARY SULLIVAN Behind the bizarre series of revelations, exposés, investigations in depth, etc., about internal relationships inside the Provos to which we have been treated by. the bourgeois press in recent weeks lies the very seriously thought-out and planned campaign designed by British propaganda either to split the Provos or to remove Sean Mac Stiofain from the leadership. It is in this light that one must view the continuing revelations of Maria Maguire in the Observer, and "Mac Stiofain's English Years" by Ivan Rowan in the Sunday Telegraph on 10 September, and the forthcoming propaganda offensive expected any month now from "Colonel" Bruce Page's Insight Team in the Sunday Times.

As explained previously (The Red Mole, 29 July), the main priority of British imperialism in Ireland today is to root out and destroy "the military capability of the Provisional IRA"

DIVIDE AND RULE As early as December last, British counterinsurgency experts began to realise that they were not going to succeed in wiping out the IRA during their first confrontation policy. At a conference in Lisburn, they worked out a policy of isolating the IRA from the Catholics by means of direct rule combined with reform. Brigadier Frankie Kitson, who was present at the conference, dissociated himself from this policy, declaring that in his opinion the situation had developed too far for there to be any serious possibility of isolating the IRA unless a split could simultaneously be engineered inside the IRA. Kitson then advocated a policy of selective arrests and (To page 8)

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