A letter from Colin Wallace to Tony Stoughton , the Chief Information Officer of the Army Information Service at Lisburn , on 14 August 1975 noted the connections between Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) paramilitaries and intelligence agencies of the British Army and of the RUC Special Branch : There is good evidence the Dublin bombings see Dublin and Monaghan bombings in May last year were a reprisal for the Irish government 's role in bringing about the power sharing Executive . According to one of Craig 's people Craig Smellie , the top MI6 officer in Northern Ireland at the time , some of those involved , the Youngs , the Jacksons , Mulholland , Hanna , Kerr and McConnell were working closely with SB Special Branch and Int Intelligence at that time . Craig 's people believe the sectarian assassinations were designed to destroy then Northern Secretary Merlyn Rees 's attempts to negotiate a ceasefire , and the targets were identified for both sides by Int/SB . They also believe some very senior RUC officers were involved with this group . In short , it would appear that loyalist paramilitaries and Int/SB members have formed some sort of pseudo-gangs in an attempt to fight a war of attrition by getting paramilitaries on both sides to kill each other and , at the same time , prevent any future political initiative such as Sunningdale . In a further letter dated 30 September 1975 , Wallace revealed that MI5 was trying to create a split in the UVF in order to foment violence : because they wanted the more politically minded ones ousted . I believe much of the violence generated during the latter part of last year was caused by some of the new Int people deliberately stirring up the conflict . As you know , we have never been allowed to target the breakaway UVF , nor the UFF , during the past year . Yet they have killed more people than the IRA ! In December 2003 , the Dáil 's Joint Committee on Justice , Equality , Defence and Women 's Rights , published the '' Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings '' which took place in May 1974 . The Inquiry was led by a former Irish Supreme Court Judge , Mr Justice Henry Barron . Judge Barron interviewed Wallace on a number of occasions during the Inquiry and comments : Judge Barron also refers to what he calls " the dubious nature of his ( Wallace 's ) conviction for manslaughter in 1981 " , and points out that the " conviction was quashed on 21 July 1996 . " In his book , '' Inside Intelligence '' , former SIS officer Anthony Cavendish confirms that he knew Wallace and says that his story is " frightening and disquieting , but one which ties in with many events to which I have been privy " . Cavendish sent Wallace a first edition of his book which contains the following inscription : " Colin - a great help and a true friend . " Cavendish , a close friend over many years of Sir Maurice Oldfield , former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service , says that Wallace 's assertion that Oldfield was the target of a black propaganda campaign by MI5 , " match closely details which were told to me privately by Maurice . " In his biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield . Richard Deacon Donald McCormick writes : Who were Oldfield 's enemies ? Who wanted to hound him even in retirement and , if possible , to destroy him totally ? These were questions which I felt it imperative to try to answer . I tried to track down the source of these various stories which became embroidered as time passed , but there was nothing positive one could go on other than word of mouth gossip . My information is that the first report came not from the IRA , but from an undisclosed Ulster Defence Regiment source . Later sources suggested the stories came from inside the British Army . The intelligence world in which Wallace operated in Northern Ireland was graphically described by Lord Stevens , former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police . Lord Stevens had presided over the Stevens Inquiries into collusion between the intelligence services , the British Army , the RUC and loyalist paramilitaries in the murders of Irish nationalists . In May 2011 , he gave evidence to the Joint Committee on the Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects ( Temporary Extension ) Bills and said : When you talk about Intelligence , of the 210 people we arrested , only three were not ( Intelligence ) agents . Some of them were agents for all four of those particular organisations ( Army , MI5 , MI6 and Special Branch ) , fighting against each other , doing things and making a large sum of money , which was all against the public interest and creating mayhem in Northern Ireland . Any system that is created in relation to this country and Northern Ireland has to have a proper controlling mechanism . It has to have a mechanism where someone is accountable for what the actions are and that has to be transparent . To this day , Wallace 's full role on behalf of the Army remains a mystery . Former members of the Special Forces admit that Wallace worked with them as far afield as Berlin and the Oman during the Cold War , but the Ministry of Defence and the Intelligence Services still try to distance themselves from what Wallace was doing in Northern Ireland . He had been part of the Army team preparing for the Widgery Tribunal into the Bloody Sunday killings of protesters in Derry , and in 2002 he testified at the Saville Inquiry into the events
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