Can you help us?

If you believe you have any information that may be of relevance, we appeal to you to assist us in our campaign for truth.

The following persons who were engaged in or with Northern Ireland in 1972 to 1976 may be of special assistance in helping us to establish the truth. These persons may confirm or rebut information we have received.

• Persons who served in the period 1973 to 1976 with:

  Army HQ Lisburn / Special Duties Team at Army HQ Lisburn / Intelligence, Army HQ Lisburn / 4 Field Survey Troop, Castledillon, Co. Armagh / 3 Brigade HQ, Lurgan / Army Information Office, Army HQ Lisburn / Psychological Operations, Army HQ Lisburn / Army/ RUC Intelligence Liaison, RUC HQ, Knock, Belfast

• Persons who held the following posts in 3 Brigade Area (Armagh/Down/Fermanagh/Tyrone)

  Brigade Command & Staff / GSO 2 Intelligence Officers/ Military Liaison Officers / Field Intelligence NCOs / Liaison Intelligence NCOs / Ammunition Technicians and Ammunition Technical Officers Weapons Intelligence Officers

• Officers and soldiers who served with any of the following regiments in 3 Brigade Area:

  Royal Ordnance Corps / Royal Engineers / Royal Regiment of Fusiliers / The Green Howards / Royal Anglian Regiment / Royal Hampshire Regiment / Royal Green Jackets / 3 Field Squadron / 11 Field Squadron / 33 Independent Field Squadron / 2 UDR and 11 UDR.

• Members of the RUC who served in J, H and K Divisions, particularly in Special Branch.
• Members of the RUC who served with Armagh Special Patrol Group.
• Members of the Garda Síochána who served between 1970 and 1976.
• Politicians, Civil Servants and Army Personnel who served on or with the Cabinet – Northern Ireland Sub-Committee / Ministry of Defence – Northern Ireland Policy Committee / Joint Intelligence Committee
• Politicians, Civil Servants and Army Personnel in the Republic of Ireland who served with the Departments of the Taoiseach, Justice, or Foreign Affairs.
• Civil Servants who served in Northern Ireland or who had an involvement with Northern Ireland by reason of posts they held:

  Ministry of Defence / The Home Office / The Northern Ireland Office / The Cabinet Office / The Prime Minister’s Office / The Foreign Office

• Civil Servants in the Republic of Ireland in the Departments of the Taoiseach, Justice, or Foreign Affairs.

We believe that numerous important documentary sources exist which may throw considerable light on the events of the time, principally those editions of the following documents that would have been current in May 1974

• Army Operational Directives
• Military Appreciation of Security Situation
• Military Appreciation of the Ulster Workers’ Council Strike
• Internal Security Instructions
• Directives on Internal Security Operations – Military
• Standing Operational Procedures for Internal Security Duties In Northern Ireland. (SOPs)
• Army HQ Northern Ireland Weekly Intelligence Summary & Army HQ Northern Ireland Weekly Operational Summary covering the period of the Ulster Workers’ Council Strike, principally April, May and June 1974.
• Records of D OPS Meetings
• Records of Information Policy Working Party
• The Military Policy Committee
• Briefing Papers to Battalions prior to commencement of Tour of Duties
• End of Tour Reports prepared by Battalions
• Briefing Papers for officers undergoing training for deployment in operational command, intelligence and bomb disposal duties.

If you have access to any of these publications, we appeal to you to contact us.

All information will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.