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| 6-December-2021 |
A veteran of colonial policing in India and Malaya advised Northern Irish officers how to tackle the IRA in the 1970s. The authorities refuse to release his report but one security insider is willing to talk about it.
A British court has ruled that a review of undercover policing compiled by MI5 at the height of the Troubles nearly 50 years ago will stay secret.
The verdict marks the end of a freedom of information battle between Northern Ireland’s police and Declassified UK.
It comes as a blow to legacy campaigners and bereaved families who hoped the report could shed light on alleged collusion between the Royal Ulster Constabulary’s (RUC) Special Branch and loyalist (pro-British) paramilitary gangs.
The dossier was drawn up by Jack Morton, a former MI5 director and colonial counter-insurgency veteran. He was called out of retirement by the head of MI5 who picked him for “special duties in Northern Ireland”.
Morton spent eight weeks in the summer of 1973 reviewing “the organisation, staffing and equipment” of RUC Special Branch in the fight against Irish republicans who wanted to end British rule over Northern Ireland.
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