Who Killed Airey Neave back in March 1979?

international | crime and justice | opinion/analysis Tuesday February 04, 2014 06:13 by Nuala

NO INNOCENT IRISH PEOPLE WERE FRAMED FOR THE MURDER OF AIREY NEAVE, THE MOST SENIOR BRITISH POLITICIAN EVER TO BE ASSASSINATED.
The case remains ‘unsolved.’
‘Unsolved,’ in 1970s parlance, means no innocent people were framed for it.
But why? Why this departure from standard procedure in 1970s England?
What was so special about Airey Neave - that they made an exception in his case?

WHO KILLED AIREY NEAVE?

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Being as brief as possible, we’re talking here about England in the 1970s.
If a heinous crime was committed by anybody in the 1970s, the system in
England back then was that if the real culprits could not be found
quickly, then some vulnerable innocent people would be selected and
falsely convicted, to ‘balance the books.’

Ask Dick Holland. Ask Stephan Kiszko. Ask Anthony Steel. Ask Judith Ward….
etc. etc….

That was the culture of the 1970s, the system of ‘justice’ in England in
the 1970s.

The Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four had already been falsely
convicted, to ‘balance the books.’

The Peter Sutcliffe Myth / The Yorkshire Ripper Cover-up was still to
come.

But in between those events, there was a slight discrepancy in 1979.

A little glitch.

A strange departure from the norm.

NO INNOCENT IRISH PEOPLE WERE FRAMED FOR THE MURDER OF AIREY NEAVE, THE
MOST SENIOR BRITISH POLITICIAN EVER TO BE ASSASSINATED.

The case remains ‘unsolved.’

‘Unsolved,’ in 1970s parlance, means no innocent people were framed for
it.

But why?

Why this departure from standard procedure in 1970s England?

What was so special about Airey Neave - that they made an exception in his
case?

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INLA

Responsibility for the murder of Airey Neave was immediately claimed by
INLA (so the media told us).

Who were INLA?

[I’m much too tired to look up everything. I’m writing from memory.
Correct me if I’m wrong about any non-essential detail.]

John Stephenson, the English *ruling group stooge* / MI5 plant / Special
Branch sleeper, orchestrated the split in the IRA Army Council in Dublin
in 1970. After that, for a while, we had the Provisional IRA and the
Official IRA.

After Aldershot and Bloody Friday in 1972, the Official IRA, who were more
emotionally mature and more politically sophisticated than the Provos, saw
the futility of further violence, and their leadership - Cathal Goulding,
Tomas Mac Giolla, and some less public figures, - called a ceasefire,
while retaining their guns in the north and reserving the right of
defensive action.

Some rank and file elements in the Official IRA in Belfast were
disgruntled at the ceasefire. They were burning with hate and craved
action. Some of them defected to the Provos. Some other ‘Officials’ set up
a splinter group titled the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). Their
political arm was the Irish Republican Socialist Party.

The Officials, along with elements of IRSP, evolved into The Workers Party
in the south of Ireland. This group in general were often referred to as
“The Stickies” - a derogatory term relating to their practice of using
stick-on labels for their Easter Lily badges at 1916 commemorations. The
stick-on labels distinguished them from the Provos, who were still using
old fashioned pins to stick the Easter Lily badges onto the jackets of
reluctant and unwilling donors outside the church……..

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WHO KILLED AIREY NEAVE?

Could a bunch of uneducated, emotionally immature, bumbling, amateurish
yokels in Belfast such as INLA have penetrated the security of the car
park at the Palace of Westminster in 1979, at the height of the IRA scare
in London, and placed a bomb under Airey Neave’s car, walking in and out
like The Invisible Man?

The bomb was a highly sophisticated device. It had a mercury tilt switch,
meaning that as soon as the car drove onto the non-horizontal ramp leading
out of the car park, the mercury in the detonator flowed under gravity and
tilted the switch to close an electrical circuit, activating the bomb.

Could INLA, a bunch of uneducated, immature yobs in Belfast, have
constructed such a sophisticated bomb, and then walked into the car park
at the Houses of Parliament, placed the bomb under Airey Neave’s car, and
then walked out again without anyone seeing them?

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WHY DID THE POLICE DEPART FROM STANDARD PROCEDURE IN THE CASE OF AIREY
NEAVE?

Given that it was standard practice in England in the 1970s to frame
innocent people for outrageous crimes, to ‘balance the books,’ WHY WERE NO
INNOCENT IRISH PEOPLE ARRESTED AND FRAMED FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF AIREY
NEAVE?

Why this departure from standard procedure?

Airey Neave was the highest ranking English politician ever to be
assassinated. He was Margaret Thatcher’s right hand man. Everybody knew
Thatcher was going to win the election.

Airey Neave was destined to become a very powerful man if he had lived to
become a member of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet. A man who would be
listened to. Perhaps even a future prime minister of England.

He was a military man.

He’d been in Colditz.

He knew things about the British military establishment.

He knew about things that had happened in World War Two.

Many Welshmen of his generation were dogmatic in their sense of right and
wrong.

Such men would tell the truth regardless of who’s toes they tread on.

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At the time of his assassination, Airey Neave was an obscure figure,
largely unknown to the general public.

INLA, the bumbling, amateurish yokels in Belfast, had never even heard of
Airey Neave.

I still remember the BBC / ITN news broadcasts at the time - the reporters
nervously fumbling to find a ‘reason’ why such a man - a man almost nobody
had heard of before then - had been targeted for assassination by an
obscure bunch of uneducated yokels in Belfast who seemingly had the powers
of The Invisible Man ……….

The BBC / ITN TV reporters in 1979 were not total fools. They were clearly
embarrassed…

It didn’t add up………

etc. etc. etc.

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Some people need killing, from the viewpoint of the ruling group.

For example, John Lennon. Imagine … what John Lennon would be saying today
if they had not bumped him off……

Airey Neave as prime minister of England? Imagine what he would have said.

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INLA, those cheap *corner boys* in Belfast, had never even heard of Airey
Neave.

But INLA and PIRA and OIRA were riddled with infiltrators from the very
start.

etc. etc. etc. …………