16 January 2005

From: "Trowbridge Ford" <trowbridge.ford@swipnet.se>
To: "John Young" <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: URGENT - Louth County Blogger
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:43:11 +0100

Dear John,

Since I have finally made contact with you, I am sending you evidence of my various e-mails to show that they were sent to Cryptome.org and the RBB [Republican Bulletin Board], though my orginal one to you has been updated, and expanded upon because of what has happened in the last week or so.

I must add that your continuing trashing of my work, pure fiction by someone who might be a deep spook, is not only wrong, but truly offensive, explaining why I have such a poor opinion of you.  

How anyone can think who has read my articles about former DCI Richard Helms, Al Haig as 'Deep Throat', 'Executive Action' director William King Harvey, MI5's Peter Wright as the Soviets' leading spy, how the CIA restored itself in the wake of Watergate, why John Hinckley, Jr. attempted to assassinate Reagan, etc. in the Trowbridge Archive at codshit.com that I am some deep spook is beyond me!  For those who are still unpersuaded, I am willing to undergo the most intensive scientific testing - truth serum, lie detector tests, you name it!

As for your claim that there is no basis in fact for my claims, I want to call your attention to the article which you refused to post on your site, and, subsequently, trashed in correspondence with me - the one about how Simon Hayward's activities, especially the publication of his autobiography, Under Fire: My Own Story, caused the fall of Thatcher's government and her Conservatives.  This article was published then on informationclearinghouse.info, and codshit.com.

The article in almost entirely based upon what Hayward wrote - his two tours of duty in N.I.; how he was set up on a drug smuggling charge in Sweden by a member of the IRA, code name DUKE, and a woman companion, called Heather Weissand, just when British officials were most involved in capturing the ship Eksund, loaded with Libyan weapons intended for a PIRA 'tet offensive'; how Hayward was treated by British officials while his activities were being investigated by Swedish police, how Francisco Notarantonio was killed instead of DUKE when Hayward's appeal was hanging in the balance, how Hayward completely unloaded in his manuscript on Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe, FO Minister David Mellor, the FO Undersecretary, Ministry of Defence officials, and others when he was sentenced to five years in prison for the alleged offence, how his charges were so explosive that PM Thatcher reshaped her cabinet without either Howe or SOD George Younger to soften the blow, etc.

In sum, my article was almost totally based upon what Hayward said, and what happened because of it.  While you might not consider what he wrote authoritative, preferring some imagined official documents to confirm the story if true, I believe that Hayward is the best source on what he did, and what its outcome was - as should any respectable historian.

And I am willing to supply a similar account of the evidence any other article is based upon - given the fact that they appeared on the web,which did not require it - if you so wish.  Just say which article you want more substantiation of.

Sincerely yours,

Trowbridge Ford

P.S. I wonder if you can explain that when I went on the RBB site this morning, the entry on MSN welcomed me back, stating that "...your last visit was: Today, 04:50 AM -".  Of course, I was not on the site then, but in bed.  I do notice that your post on the RBB was at 4:44 AM this morning.  Do you have some entry into my computer, per chance?

----- Original Message -----

From: Trowbridge Ford
To: Republican Bulletin Board
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:06 PM
Subject: corrected, rejected message sent again

----- Original Message -----

From: Trowbridge Ford
To: Republican Bulletin Board
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: setting up former Garda SB det. sgt. Owen Corrigan for assassination

----- Original Message -----

From: Trowbridge Ford
To: John Young
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 8:08 PM
Subject: setting up former Garda SB det. sgt. Owen Corrigan for assassination

Dear John,

I see that your crazy efforts to support Martin Ingram aka Captain Simon Hayward and Captain James Rennie regarding the runaway Louth County Blogger in setting up the above for possible assassination has resulted in failure, and has ended up with the whole effort being quashed by London, Dublin, and Washington.

Corrigan was a most principled officer who cleaned up, or complained about much of what Ingram, your buddy, had done.  And I say this after you went out of your way to discredit me by printing two articles about Hayward, letters from me about him which you requested, and an incomplete set of mug shots about the PIRA leaderhip, and then Martin Ingram's dismissal of my claims as if he were a recognized, veteran reporter of N.I. affairs rather than the British Army's deepest, most troublesome covert operator.

The incomplete set of mug shots left out the top leadership of the PIRA's Army Council - what would have included Padraig Wilson - making the photo of Freddie Scappaticci in List C seem more like the truth of who 'Steak Knife', the BA's deepest, longest service tout in the PIRA, really is. And the photo you printed of Hayward from the back of the dustjacket for Tony Geraghty's hard cover edition of The Irish War was done in a way to minimize the shortened middle and ring fingers of his right hand rather than in a way to clearly demonstrate it. 

Corrigan helped manage the arrest, and ultimate extradition of crazy Dominic McGlinchey to N: I. in 1985 - the terrorist Hayward shot up South Armagh in the fall of 1982 in an attempt to kill, what resulted in the famous Shoot-to-Kill murders which still haven't been adequately resolved. For a good account - expect for what Hayward, who has acknowledged being there, did in the process - see Peter Taylor, Brits: The War against the IRA, pp. 243-53.

When Corrigan cooperated with the RUC's SB Chief Superintendent Harry Breen, and Superintendent Bob Buchanan in 1989  right after the assassination of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane - an effort which threatened to get to the bottom of the cross-border assassinations, especially the ones already mentioned, and the killing of Lady and Lord Justice Maurice Gibson who had helped cover up Hayward's efforts as best he could - they were themselves assassinated when they made their way back to Northern Ireland from Dundalk. Blaming Corrigan for these murders was an ideal way of covering up everything.

Especially when Corrigan spoke out ten years later about the totally unnecessary murder by the SAS and the RUC of Seamus Ludlow in 1976 - who they had mistaken apparently for Daithi O Conail. O Conail was a most hard line Provisional who the Gardai had been trying to capture since the 1974 ceasefire, and Colin Wallace, the Senior Information Officer (Psychological Operations) at N. I. Army HQ, tried to set up by forging a document for him, indicating that the PIRA was falling apart, and if discovered, would lead to its assassination of him, as Danny Morrison has just indicated in his article on the long war. 

Ingram wanted to see Corrigan taken out as an alleged PIRA tout because of the threat he represented to what he had done - Maggie's revenge killings in 1982, his dirty work as Ops Officer of the 14 Intelligence Company's South Detachment from June 1985 to March 1987, and what his colleagues, especially in the Force Research Unit, did, once he was imprisoned in Sweden, to try to rectify his complaints about them.  And there can be no doubt that Ingram endorsed the outing of Corrigan as the tout responsible for the shootings, since he explained to Mick Hall in an e-mail on the RBB that there was nothing either new or controversial in what the Dundalk Blog had allowed to be posted. 

It must be really nice to help continue to cover up the dirty work of such a slime ball.  AND I WONDER WHAT THAT MAKES YOU?

Sincerely,

Trowbridge Ford