The Mountbatten dossier can be read here👇.

Britain's MI6 enjoyed the loyalty of Thomas Coyne, the Secretary of Ireland's Dept of Justice (DoJ). He planted MI6 spies inside Garda Intelligence and the DoJ before the Troubles. The network he ran may still be in existence. Read👇

RT @CovertHistory: MI6 assets: Coyne, Mullen, Crinnion, Garvey, McCoy, Browne, Heavin and the Earl of Longford. The enablers: Ward and Wren….

The men who ran the Department of Justice, 1949-86: Coyne, Berry and Ward.

"[MI6’s] challenge has never been finding agents, but limiting them to those with the best contacts and greatest potential."

Dolan believed that Coyne’s recruitment of Crinnion should not exclude the ‘possible role of Peter Berry’. In other words, Dolan—who interacted with Berry on a weekly, if not daily, basis—suspected that Berry was part of the same clandestine MI6 apparatus within the DoJ as Coyne.

Andy Ward, who succeeded Peter Berry as DoJ Secretary from 1971 to 1986, was aware of the 1973 Mountjoy Letter but seemingly took no action. If any inquiry occurred, it was kept from the public, and no evidence of such has ever surfaced.

. become valued, and maintain confidentiality about his meetings with Mr Coyne. The Department of Justice did not want direct contact from him. He might hear from the Department, and if so, the expectation was that he would be appropriately productive and cooperative.'

There, Crinnion ‘received instructions from Coyne’ and was ' informed that he was going to be assigned to duty with whichever Garda division handled security, in the Depot at Phoenix Park. He would start at the clerical bottom, inform himself, be efficient, [continued] .

It was conveyed to Crinnion . by the Earl, or someone else—that he should respond cooperatively when, one day, he would be ‘approached’ career-wise.'

Patrick Crinnion

Thomas Coyne

MI6 assets: Coyne, Mullen, Crinnion, Garvey, McCoy, Browne, Heavin and the Earl of Longford. The enablers: Ward and Wren. And what of Berry? And the TDs? Read this👇

Andy Ward, who succeeded Peter Berry as DoJ Secretary from 1971 to 1986, was aware of the 1973 Mountjoy Letter but seemingly took no action. If any inquiry occurred, it was kept from the public, and no evidence of such has ever surfaced.

Dolan believed that Coyne’s recruitment of Crinnion should not exclude the ‘possible role of Peter Berry’. In other words, Dolan—who interacted with Berry on a weekly, if not daily, basis—suspected that Berry was part of the same clandestine MI6 apparatus within the DoJ as Coyne.

. become valued, and maintain confidentiality about his meetings with Mr Coyne. The Department of Justice did not want direct contact from him. He might hear from the Department, and if so, the expectation was that he would be appropriately productive and cooperative.'.

There, Crinnion ‘received instructions from Coyne’ and was ' informed that he was going to be assigned to duty with whichever Garda division handled security, in the Depot at Phoenix Park. He would start at the clerical bottom, inform himself, be efficient, [continued] . .

‘It was conveyed to Crinnion . by the Earl, or someone else—that he should respond cooperatively when, one day, he would be ‘approached’ career-wise.‘

"[MI6’s] challenge has never been finding agents, but limiting them to those with the best contacts and greatest potential."

The men who ran the Department of Justice, 1949-86: Coyne, Berry and