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By Hamish MacPherson
Back in the Day
Colonel Colin Mackenzie and his Indian pandits Painting by Thomas Hickey (1816). Suggested identities of the persons from left to right are Dhurmia, a Jain pandit holding a palm-leaf manuscript, Cavelli Venkata Lechmiah, a Telugu Brahmin pandit, Colin THE British Empire may have been defunct for decades, save its septic presence in the deluded mindsets of many English exceptionalists and comparatively few Scottish Unionists, but it can nevertheless never be denied that Scots played more than their fair share in developing and maintaining that empire. I have shown in past columns how Scottish soldiers, engineers, doctors and administrators were key people in the empire project from its inception and, in the latter half of the 18th century and throughout the 19th century, Scots achieved high positions and great influence in the military in particular.
British army officers were ‘organising and running their own private war’ in Northern Ireland
Photo surveillance techniques used to gather intelligence on Soviet troop movements in East Germany were used by the army’s notorious Force Research Unit to help its agents monitor targets in Northern Ireland
A Royal Air Force (RAF) intelligence veteran has claimed that British detectives “weren’t interested” in hearing his evidence about the possible collusion of senior British army officers in murders in Northern Ireland.
Geoff Currums, a military surveillance specialist who retired as a squadron leader, spoke out after giving two interviews to police officers from Operation Kenova, which is investigating the activities of “Stakeknife”, the British army’s most senior spy inside the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.