Posted on 10/19/2001 6:49:23 AM PDT by aculeus
A PLOT by the IRA to link up with the Nazis to invade Northern Ireland during the Second World War was disclosed in secret service files published by the Public Record Office yesterday.
According to the MI5 records, Germany parachuted a spy into Southern Ireland in 1940 to assess the feasibility of the plan after being approached by the terrorist group.
But the plan was foiled after the spy, Dr Hermann Goertz, aka Heinz Kruse, or just "K", was arrested a year later by the Irish government.
The memorandum, written in 1943, read: "On the 5th May 1940 Goertz landed by parachute at Ballivor, Co Meath, Eire. Earlier that year the IRA had been in touch with the German SS through the intermediary of Stephen Carroll Held.
"Held had visited Berlin with a proposal from the IRA for an attack on Northern Ireland by the Germans to be supported by 5,000 IRA recruited in Eire and Northern Ireland.
"Goertz's mission was to examine this proposal and to obtain. . . the military information on which the joint attack by the Germans and the IRA on Northern Ireland could be based."
The report says that he met Stephen Hayes, then leader of the IRA in Dublin, but the meeting was raided. While money, a radio transmitter and a German airman's cap were seized, along with the manuscript of the plan, codenamed Kathleen, Goertz escaped.
For the next year Goertz, who had been arrested as a spy and deported before the war, lived in a number of IRA safe houses. During that period he was approached by a member of the Irish Army, Maj Gen McNeill, a fascist, the files say.
It is believed he was hoping to resurrect some kind of Fascist "Blueshirt" organisation with the help of the Germans. At first, British intelligence believed that McNeill's involvement meant that the Irish Government was collaborating, but its investigation showed he was acting independently.
The operation and McNeill's attempt to link up with the Nazis came to nothing when Goertz was arrested in November 1941.
9 May 2001: Scots 'tried to set up Nazi alliance'
Are the IRA terrorists? Perhaps so. But they have a better record of avoiding the killing of innocent civilians than their Protestant counterparts do. Generally they warn people before they blow up buildings, whereas the Protestants usually just go into the nearest bar or house and shoot whatever Catholic they happen to meet. I trust Bush will not let Blair inveigle him into this one. Blair has already given him some terribly stupid advice concerning the Palestinian question.
Is the enemy of your enemy a friend?
The Germans also bombed Belfast. They also considered dropping packages of weapons and TNT in IRA areas.
Mothers and babies were murdered and maimed in the Harrod's blast set by the IRA with just enough warning time to create maximum panic and terror.
Next you'll be telling us that the IRA bomb makers didn't learn their craft sitting around the same tables as the PLO monsters.
The book doesn't detail all that's in this story, but Goertz did meet with IRA members and Nazi sympathizers, including some guy who built his house in the shape of a swastika.
Aw, you're trying to hurt my feelings!
And I even left the bit at the bottom about the Scots to assuage the sensibilities of folks like you.
But I'll be nice and not mention DeValera's signing the condolences book at the German Embassy when he heard about Adolf's death.
PS: It's in The Times also.
Oh well, in that case, it MUST be true!
But those mothers and babies had it coming. Especially the babies. You just can't trust a British baby.
The IRA is a bunch of Marxist revolutionaries, bent on maximum mayhem. An IRA-controlled Irish state would be Hell on Earth. I can just hear the wail from Irish Catholics in the US as the IRA junta outlawed the Catholic Church in Ireland as "the opiate of the masses".
And yet, their true nature is ignored and they are sent out to commit their wanton acts of destruction, because they serve somebody else's purpose. Gee, this is beginning to sound familiar.
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.
Your too kind. And while your at it, don't mention Oswald Mosley's involvment with the Conservative party and the nazis.
Well, the Arab terrorists also supplied help and manpower for Hitler. Birds of a feather, even now.
You have been served notice IRA. You are NOT exempt from the meeting righteous and swift justice.
Evil is Evil and the face it wears has many color, but it cannot mask the blackness of it's soul.
In his political career Mosley was a Tory MP, an Indepndant MP and a Labour MP, rising to a sub-cabinent post in a Labour government. One of the main reasons he split with the Tories was Ireland -- he opposed the measures used to combat Republicanism. That hardly makes him and the Conservative Party fellow travellers.
These posts are getting better!! US soldiers on Irish soil killing Irish citizens who don't hand over IRA terrorists?? Dream on!
There are plenty of Irish Catholics in the U.S. who completely disapprove of the methods used by the IRA. So what exactly is the point you are trying to make?
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