Hidden Agenda Page #6

Which I shall take

to the DPP for him to decide.

- It won't work.

- What won't?

Not at my expense, it won't.

My God, you're catchin' the Irish disease.

You're gettin' paranoid.

If necessary,

I'm prepared to resign over this...

and start telling tales out of school.

I don't think you will.

You're a career officer like me.

- I mean it.

- You'd resign the force and go public?

If I have to.

Listen, we're both professionals.

We observe certain rules.

Then understand.

Without access to that tape...

it is impossible for me

to evaluate the evidence.

I'm afraid I can't help you there.

I have neither seen nor heard that tape.

And frankly, I don't want the burden.

Now, if you will excuse me.

Who's Harris?

Harris?

I've never heard of him.

Ms. McKechnie, will you show Mr. Kerrigan

out of my office, please?

I wonder what Harris'

connection with the Provos is?

- Why do you think he has one?

- Why else meet in an IRA club?

- It's a Republican club.

- Same difference.

Not every Republican supports the IRA.

Let's hope you're right.

I could be putting my head in a noose.

I don't think you have to worry.

You can count on the IRA

to be predictable.

Yes. They shoot policemen.

Did you lock the door?

- Are you lookin' for someone?

- Teresa Doyle.

- You have to be signed in by a member.

- Pardon?

- You have to be signed in by a member.

- That's why I'm waiting for her to come.

It's okay, Danny. I know these people.

I take full responsibility for them.

Welcome to

the James Connolly Republican Club.

I'm Liam Philbin, Sinn Fein rep

for this area and club secretary.

Ingrid Jessner.

Hello. Peter Kerrigan.

- Got here okay, then?

- Yeah, fine, thanks.

Would you like to buy a football ticket?

Football ticket.

Never misses a trick.

- Fifty pence.

- Four.

Thank you.

Congratulations. You've just contributed

to a fund for Republican prisoners.

Thank you very much.

- Here's a present.

- Down to you.

- Shall we go in?

- Sure. Is Teresa here?

- No, Teresa got lifted on Monday.

- Lifted? What for?

Harassment. Happens all the time.

- Is she all right?

- She's okay.

- And the baby?

- They're being looked after.

"In the Maidstone and the Maze

"I thought about my land

throughout these days

"Why my country was divided

"Why I was now in jail

"Imprisoned without crime

or without trial

"And now I love my country

I am not a bitter man

"I've seen cruelty and injustice

at first hand

"And then one fateful mornin'

I shook bold freedom's hand

"For right or wrong,

I tried to free my land

"And you dare call me a terrorist

while you look down your gun

"When I think of all the deeds

that you have done

"You have plundered many nations,

divided many lands

"You have terrorized their people

You've ruled with an iron hand

"And you've brought

this reign of terror to my land

"And you dare call me a terrorist

while you look down your gun

"When I think of all the deeds

that you have done

"You have plundered many nations,

divided many lands

"You have terrorized their people

You've ruled with an iron hand

"And you've brought

this reign of terror to my land

"You've brought

this reign of terror to my land"

Thank you.

Jimmy here's gonna do the next one.

On the wall,

you see a picture of James Connolly...

one of our greatest-ever Irish leaders.

Connolly said, many years ago,

that England has no more moral right...

to administer Irish affairs...

than it has to administer the affairs

of America or Japan.

No more moral right to police us

than it has a moral right to shoot us.

That is the answer: British withdrawal.

That's the answer...

but innocent people have been killed.

Yes, innocent people have been killed

and are being killed.

But if you look at all the colonies,

for instance, America.

George Washington was called

a terrorist in his time.

Jomo Kenyatta was a terrorist.

Archbishop Makarios was a terrorist.

Unfortunately, colonies appear

to have to fight for their freedom.

It is never granted willingly.

They must struggle for it.

Liam...

Do you know why Paul

was with Mr. Molloy that morning?

Yes. Molloy was taking him

to meet Harris, in fact.

- Where?

- At a safe house.

That you provided?

- Yes. Our interests coincided.

- In what way?

Let's just say that our enemies

became his enemies.

Where is he, Liam?

He's out the back here, waitin' for you.

If you like, we'll go now and see him.

- Yes.

- Good, then. Come on.

"Gloucester's crumbling

pushed us westward

"To liberate all the Irish

Some of us that came to fight

"From Tipperary mountainside"

Here's your visitors now.

- Thank you, Liam.

- Okay. I'll leave you to it.

Thank you.

- Harris?

- Yes.

- How much has Liam told you?

- Only that Molloy brought you here...

and that you were sheltered by the IRA.

- And you find that reprehensible?

- For Molloy? No.

No. He has his loyalties.

But for you, an officer serving

in the British Army, yes.

I am terribly sorry about what happened.

I really didn't think

they'd go that far.

Why did you want to see Paul?

- I gave him a tape. Didn't you know that?

- Not till later.

Coming here could cost me my life.

Mine, too, but unlike you,

I don't have the IRA to protect me.

I gave the IRA nothing.

I was an Army Intelligence officer

co-opted to work with Ml6...

and Ml5 when they took over.

PSYOPS.

Our cover name was

"Information Policy Unit".

Our official function was

to liaise with the press...

and prepare public relations programs.

And unofficial?

We had our own printing press.

We'd forge documents

attributed to Republican sources.

We'd provide material for the media:

Newspapers, magazines, television.

- Black propaganda?

- Yes.

What kind of material?

Whatever we thought was necessary.

We'd invent stories,

leak truths, leak lies...

leak half-truths.

Accountable to the politicians.

Let us get one thing straight, Kerrigan.

We were accountable to no one.

The Prime Minister, Parliament, the courts,

the great British public...

It made no difference.

They were all there to be manipulated.

- And that didn't bother you?

- Not against the IRA, it didn't.

But during the election of '74...

our work became increasingly political.

Ml5 were running things.

Our long-term objectives were abandoned.

The new emphasis was on

assassination teams, bounty hunters.

But the PSYOPS unit

continued to operate?

Yes, but with fresh targets.

During the '70s, the Conservative Party

was demoralized and divided.

They saw their party leader,

Edward Heath...

cave in against the miners' strike

of '74 and were searching for...

a new leader from the hard right.

We circulated stories

about his private life.

Heath was dumped.

And replaced by Thatcher.

Yeah, but that wasn't enough.

There was concern

amongst business and the military...

that Labour were heading for

a third term in office.

The moderates would be replaced

by the left-wingers...

who, in turn, would be opposed

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