Special Branch link to Loyalist death squads

[pete2]

A former senior police officer has told an Ulster terror inquiry that Special Branch systematically failed to warn some 255 people in Northern Ireland that they were being targeted by Loyalist death squads. Vincent McFadden, senior investigating officer with the Stevens inquiry, which investigated allegations of security force and Loyalist collusion in Northern Ireland, said the majority of those targeted were members of the Catholic community. McFadden said some of the targets had links to Republican paramilitary groups such as the IRA, but in other cases the links were "perceived". He told the inquiry the targeting was often a case of "guilty by association" simply because a person had been spotted in the company of a known paramilitary.
The former detective chief superintendent said the Stevens inquiry found no evidence any of the individuals were ever warned by the RUC that their lives were under threat, and an unspecified number of them were later shot and killed or shot and injured. McFadden said he had records that showed RUC Special Branch failed to act on intelligence they had received that Catholic civilians were being targetted...

Special Branch Link To Loyalist Death Squads (from Sunday Herald)

[Gabha Óir]

Vincent Mc Fadden? Sounds too much like a taig. It musn't be true.