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An Enemy of the Crown - The British Secret Service Campaign against Charles Haughey (Paperback)
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An Enemy of the Crown - The British Secret Service Campaign against Charles Haughey (Paperback)
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In the early 1970s, Sir Maurice Oldfield of the British Secret
Service, MI6, embarked upon a decade-long campaign to derail the
political career of Charles Haughey. The English spymaster believed
Haughey was a Provisional IRA godfather, therefore, a threat to
Britain. Oldfield was assisted by unscrupulous British agents and
by a shadowy group of conspirators inside the Irish state's
security apparatus, all sharing his distrust of Haughey. Escaping
scrutiny for their actions until now, Enemy of the Crown examines
more than a dozen instances of their activities. Oldfield was
conspiratorial by nature and lacked a moral compass. Involved in
regime change plots and torture in the Middle East, in the Republic
of Ireland he engaged with convicted criminals as agent
provocateurs as well as the exploitation of pedophile rings in
Northern Ireland. He and his spies engaged in dirty tricks as they
ran vicious smear campaigns in Ireland, Britain and the US. MI6 and
IRD intrigues were deployed to impede Haughey's bid to secure a
position on Fianna Fail's front bench and any return to
respectability. London's hateful drive against Haughey saw no
let-up after Fianna Fail's triumphal return to power in 1977 which
saw them win a large majority of seats in the Dail. When Haughey
sought a place at Cabinet, Oldfield and his spies devised more
dirty tricks to impede him. While Haughey was suspicious of MI6
interference, he had no inkling of the full extent of London's
clandestine efforts to destroy him. By circulating lurid stories
about him, they played a major part in trying to prevent him
succeed Jack Lynch as Taoiseach in 1979. This book attempts to shed
light on some of the anti-Haughey conspiracies which took place
during the period of the late 1960s right through to the early
1980s.
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