Sandy Boyer with a brief outline of what Radio Free Eireann is doing this weekend.
This coming Saturday, May 17 from 1-2 pm New York time, Radio Free
Eireann will interview leading Irish journalist Suzanne Breen about why Gerry
Adams wants everyone to know that the Police Service of Northern Ireland called
him an MI5 agent.
We will also interview Seamus Metress PhD who teaches Irish studies at the
University Of Toledo about his essential new book The Spirit of Resistance: a
History of Physical Force Republicanism in Ireland and America which we will
offer as a thank you gift when you contribute $75 to WBAI.
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Unfortunate timing 5pm today. Will this show be posted here like others? Will be very interested to hear it later in the evening.
ReplyDeletesame as larry. everything is a bit alice thru the looking glass lately. im seriously thinking of switching off soon for a while, not in a defeatist way, but just to get the head some peace and not have these weirdos in my headspace.
ReplyDeleteThis was an interesting interview, one thing Suzanne mentioned was that the PSNI questioned Adams about being a tout (an over used word i know). Apparently Adams relayed this at his conference after release. I didnt catch it at the time, and I cant find any reference to a complete transcript. But that was an eye opener.
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ReplyDeleteI didnt catch it at the time, and I cant find any reference to a complete transcript.
Gerry Adams press conference..aka hiding the truth in public....
Cheers Frankie, watched it again and its not there (ffs I feel sick watching that). Seems it was probably in a guardian interview/article he did. This is a killer quote, and like Suzanne im astonished that it wasn’t mentioned more :
ReplyDeleteThe Sinn Fein president notes that detectives questioning him referred to his attendance at paramilitary funerals and his habit of calling IRA members “comrades” as proof he was in the Provisionals.
But then comes a startling sentence: “They claimed I was turned by special branch during interrogation in Belfast’s Palace Barracks in 1972 and that I became an MI5 agent.”
Just to emphasise, the PSNI claimed to Adams he was turned into an Mi5 agent. The police! For what its worth, its probably a big turn off to people who would question his provable record, talk of touts can strengthen Adams if they are left unsubstantiated.
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/comment-wise-move-by-adams-to-go-public-with-mi5-agent-allegation-1-6050789
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ReplyDeleteI thought it was the stage managed press conference you couldn't find.... The Guardian piece were he said...
They claimed I was turned by special branch ...He made the same statement in the Belfast Media in Palace Barracks in 1972 and that I became an MI5 agent. And I think the AndyTown News ran a 10 page spread on his arrest..
Radio Free Eireann will take a break for Memorial Day the Saturday, May
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We will be back on the air the following Saturday, May 31st at 1pm New York
time.
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Sandy Boyer