To introduce IRA operation Weeton, and its impact on events elsewhere, I borrow
a quote from my 10.10.00 letter to Mr. Paul Brett, Investment Services Manager,
Irish Nationwide Building Society,
"The consequences surrounding events at the time of the second Irish tax
letter, April 1983, are best left to another forum. Suffice to say: '(the)
explosive impact (of the second event) is equal to that which devastated the
Grand Hotel in
The implications of what follows has been known to me since autumn 1986, when
the first note taking on the Weeton conspiracy to bomb trial took place. I use
as a vehicle for this computer mounting a typed document which has its origins
in June 1994. A close fidelity to the original will be observed, including the
use its one word title Weeton.
Weeton, a placename, relates to a little known yet, in an inverse way, one of
the most successful IRA operations ever to have taken place. I say that not
because the operation was a military success for the republican movement, the
bombing intention was thwarted, but for what it made possible in October 1984 –
the bombing of the Grand Hotel in
Continuing in that inverse way, an appropriate sub-title for this presentation
could read: The Real Secret History Of
(Well, Part Of) The
Not having a television set, the programme was not seen by me. I'm confident
nothing to do with real disclosure came from the screening, that was not the
intention of the exercise – or more of like, whether by C4, BBC, or other. It
is, however, the intention of this presentation.
The
court reports in Section 1 below on IRA operation Weeton are fortuitously on
record, and are the hinge on which this presentation hangs. If limited in
revelation, they make possible the succeeding analysis and development which, be
assured, was not intended for public airing.
By
their nature these reports are somewhat repetitive. Because they are important
I ask that you would be patient in reading them.
WEETON
(cover page)
1) Weeton Trial Newspaper Reports – twelve
pages.
A) Observations on Trial Reports – two pages.
B) Trial Omissions and Reporting Omissions
(Evaluation) – two pages.
2) - Lies From Liars Told – five pages.
3) - Thomas Maguire/Raymond O'Connor/Weeton –
three pages.
4) - Photo-Taking/Why No Trial?/Why No
Extradition? – four pages.
5) - Weeton: Getting To Know All About You – ten
pages.
6) - Why Weeton? – eighteen pages.
7) - Patrick Magee and Other Events – six pages.
8) - Trial Reports: James Murray and Joseph Calvey
– three pages.
9)
- A Coventry Letter and
Detective Steve Davies – six pages
10) - Irish Tax Letter (Cork) –
four pages.
11) - Phoenix – Policing The
Shadows (Pangbourne & Glasgow) – six pages.
