Stray Bullets

Stakeknife and the Ripple of Terror. Part II: An Unreliable Narrator

E.S. Haggan Season 3 Episode 2

A lot packed into this episode, partly by design, partly by divergence. Continuing on the theme of assets, handlers, TCG and RUC Special Branch. How were things managed, or mismanaged? Troubles' history remains fertile ground into which black propaganda may be seeded by both state and non-state actors. Each 'side' alluding that they fought a 'just war', but all sides drowned in their dirty war.

This episodes concludes with three murders: two by Irish republicans, one by the RUC.

Future episodes will continue to examine the 'intelligence war' as well as 'acts of terror' employed by both state and non-state actors during the Troubles.

Works cited:

O'Rawe, Richard, Stakeknife's Dirty War, Merrion Press, Ireland, 2023

McKittrick, David, et al, Lost Lives, Revised Edition, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2007   

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