and MRF, 1;
and 14 Intelligence Company, 1;
and observation duties, 1, 2;
loyalties, 1, 2, 3;
payment of members, 1;
recruitment, 1;
and UDA, 1;
and McKittrick articles, 1;
and ‘shoot to kill’ policy, 1;
and new coroners’ rules, 1;
and lying to the press, 1;
and Oldfield, 1;
and Hermon’s style, 1;
protection of suspects’ rights, 1;
and DCI, 1, 2;
and HAWK operation, 1;
computerized records, 1;
and WIU, 1;
and supergrasses, 1, 2, 3;
and SSU, 1;
acts as back up to SAS, 1;
as IRA target, 1, 2;
in wake of Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1;
improved treatment of suspects, 1
Ryder, Chris, 1, 2
SA-7 missile, 1
Sampson, Colin, 1, 2, 3
Sands, Bobby, 1
SAS (22nd Special Air Service Regiment), and killing of IRA members, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;
committed to NI (from 1976), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
and Parachute Regiment, 1, 2;
training, 1;
regional centres, 1;
and McKenna ‘abduction’, 1, 2;
border incident (1976), 1, 2;
and Newman, 1;
and 14 Intelligence Company, 1, 2, 3;
and propagandists, 1, 2;
and COPs, 1;
and informers, 1;
and ambushes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
and TCGLOs, 1;
and FRU, 1;
and jarking, 1;
reasonable use of force, 1;
trains SSU, 1, 2;
evolution of an operation, 1;
organizational and tactical changes (1980s), 1, 2;
strength, 1, 2;
mistaken killings, 1
SAS squadrons, 1, 2, 3, 4
SAS Training Wing, 1, 2
Savage, Sean, 1
SDLP (Social Democratic and Labour Party), 1, 2, 3
Secret Intelligence Service see SIS
Security Co-ordinator, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Security Liaison Offices (MI5), 1, 2
Security Policy Committee, 1
Security Services see MI5
Security Service Act (1989), 1, 2
Shamrock club, Ardoyne, west Belfast, 1
Shankhill, 1
Shankhill Company (Official IRA), 1
Shoot to Kill (Asher), 1, 2
‘shoot to kill’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Simmons, Eugene, 1, 2
Sinn Fein, 1;
casts doubt on legality of SAS operations, 1;
and prisoners issue, 1;
propaganda, 1, 2, 3;
‘Roll of Honour’ of fallen volunteers, 1;
Irish flag incident, 1;
political work boosted, 1, 2, 3;
and informers, 1, 2;
and attacks on British targets overseas, 1;
wins Fermanagh and south Tyrone seat, 1;
and supergrasses, 1;
and Adams assassination attempt, 1;
in Tyrone, 1;
Lynagh elected to Monaghan Council, 1
SIS (Secret Intelligence Service; MI6), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Sittingbourne, Kent, 1
16/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers, 1
Slater, Lance-Corporal Alistair, 1, 2
Slevin, Mick, 1, 2, 3
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 1, 2, 3
soft targets, 1
south Armagh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
‘South Armagh Republican Action Force’, 1
South Fermanagh, 1, 2, 3, 4
Southern Command (IRA), 1
Soviet Army, 1
Special Air Service Regiment see SAS
Special Boat Service, 1
Special Branch (SB) (E Department): and the Army, 1, 2, 3, 4;
role of, 1, 2;
and CID, 1, 2, 3;
and SMIU NI, 1;
Lord Carver on, 1, 2;
on Adams, 1;
and E4A, 1, 2;
initiates most surveillance operations, 1;
RUC applicants vetted by, 1;
and informers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
split into five divisions, 1;
and TCGs, 1, 2, 3;
and MI5, 1;
and jarking, 1;
and Metropolitan Police SB, 1;
and HMSUs, 1;
officers pushed out of force, 1;
Whiteside in charge of, 1;
Forbes becomes Head of, 1;
attitude to ambushing, 1;
and death of McElwaine, 1
Special Category status, 1, 2, 3
Special Investigation Branch, Royal Military Police, 1
Special Military Intelligence Unit (Northern Ireland) (SMIU NI), 1, 2, 3
Special Patrol Group (SPG), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Special Support Unit (SSU), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Spycatcher (Wright), 1
Stalker, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Stalker: The Search for the Truth (Taylor), 1
Stormont, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Stormont House, 1, 2
Stormont Parliament, 1
Strabane, 1
Strabane shootings (1985), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Strand Road police station, Londonderry, 1
Stronge, James, 1
Stronge, Sir Norman, 1
Sunday Times, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sunday Tribune, 1
supergrasses, 1, 2, 3, 4
Swift, Lance-Corporal Alan, 1
Tactical Areas of Responsibility (TAORs), 1
Tamnamore, near Dungannon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Tasking and Co-ordination Groups (TCGs), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Taylor, James, 1
Taylor, Kevin, 1, 2
Taylor, Peter, 1, 2, 3
TCG Liaison Officer (TCGLO), 1
Temperley, Trooper Ron, 1, 2, 3
Territorial Army SAS regiments, 1, 2
Thatcher, Margaret, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
The Birches RUC station, 1, 2, 3, 4
Thiepval barracks, 1
39 Brigade (Belfast), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
36th Ulster Division, 1
3 Brigade, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Tighe, Michael, 1, 2, 3
Times, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Toman, Eugene, 1, 2
Tone, Wolfe, 1
Toomebridge, County Londonderry, 1
Trainor, Paddy, 1
Trant, Major General Dick, 1, 2, 3
Turf Lodge estate, west Belfast, 1, 2, 3
12 Intelligence and Security Company, 1, 2
28 Intelligence Section, 1
22nd Special Air Service Regiment see SAS
22 SAS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
B Squadron, 1, 2
Twinbrooks estate, Belfast, 1, 2, 3
Twomey, Seamus, 1
Tynan Abbey, 1
UDA (Ulster Defence Association), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
UDR (Ulster Defence Regiment): and B Specials, 1;
unpopular among Catholics, 1;
distrusted by British Army, 1, 2;
and RUC, 1, 2;
members attacked, 1, 2;
loyalties, 1, 2;
and UDA, 1;
payment of members, 1;
recruitment, 1;
and Miami Showband incident, 1;
and INLA killings, 1;
and Adams assassination attempt, 1;
and IRA target, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
deters IRA attacks in Tyrone, 1;
and Loughgall, 1, 2
UFF (Ulster Freedom Fighters), 1, 2, 3, 4
Ulster Defence Association see UDA
Ulster Defence Regiment see UDR
Ulster Freedom Fighters see UFF
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), 1, 2;
and Carson, 1;
as a sectarian terrorist group, 1;
and supergrasses, 1, 2;
death of Brian Robinson, 1
United States, IRA obtains weapons from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Valente, Peter, 1, 2
Valhalla (freighter), 1
VCP (vehicle checkpoint), 1
Walker, Patrick, 1
Wallace, Colin, 1, 2
Walls, Colm, 1, 2
War Without Honour (Holroyd), 1
Warrenpoint, 1, 2, 3, 4
Warsaw Pact, 1, 2
Washing Bay, 1, 2
‘Way Ahead, The’, 1
Weapons Intelligence Unit (WIU), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Welsh, Gerald, 1
west Belfast, 1, 2, 3, 4
West Germany, 1, 2
west Tyrone, 1
Westmacott, Captain Richard, 1, 2
white band, 1
Whiterock Road, Belfast, 1
Whiteside, John, 1, 2
Williams, Sergeant Clive, 1
Wilson, Harold, 1, 2, 3, 4
Wilson, Sammy, 1
Woodbourne police station, 1
Woolwich, 1
Wright, Peter, 1
Wyman, John, 1
Yellow Card guidelines, 1,
