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2 unusual facts about Force Research Unit


Force Research Unit

Self professed former FRU operative Martin Ingram asserted that the arson attack which destroyed the offices of the Stevens Inquiry was carried out by FRU to destroy evidence on operational activities collected by Stevens' team.

There is a debate as to whether this agent is IRA member Freddie Scappaticci or another, as yet unidentified, IRA member.


Tommy Lyttle

A former officer from the Force Research Unit (the covert military intelligence agent-handling unit based in Northern Ireland) using the pseudonym "Martin Ingram" suggested that Lyttle ordered Nelson, who was recruited by the FRU to infiltrate the UDA's intelligence structure, to compile targeting information on Catholic solicitor Pat Finucane prior to his killing in 1989.


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