Item 85 - Anti-IRA disinformation policy

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Anti-IRA disinformation policy

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  • 1 February 1990 (Creation)

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Depicts argaret Thatcher (centre) standing above MI5 realising that she is manipulating puppets without strings.

Likely refers to the Government's admission to an anti-IRA disinformation policy during the early 1970's, as alleged by former Ulster army press officer Colin Wallace, who also stated that there had been a dirty-tricks campaign to destabilise Harold Wilson's Government.

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