The Troubles event
also: troubles
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
Irelandcountry · 3Mafiaorganization · 2Operation Gladiooperation · 2United Statescountry · 1Marshall Planoperation · 1Louis Mountbattenperson · 1Bosniacountry · 1William Howard Taftperson · 1Tim Spicerperson · 1Scots Guardsorganization · 1Falklandsplace · 1Bobby Sandsperson · 1Bostoncountry · 1Dwight D. Eisenhowerperson · 1Global Undergroundorganization · 1Harry S. Trumanperson · 1Donald Trumpperson · 1
Claims (1)
Tim Spicer spied_on
The Troubles documented
“seen combat several times. He was in the Falklands. He also, let's see, was in the Iraq War and in Bosnia. During the early 1990s, Spicer got his first taste of controversy with his Scott guards had been deployed to Ireland as part of the T…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 42:23
Mentions (7)
▶ 29:43
So it goes on to talk about, in a subsequent chapter, a thing called the Troubles. The Troubles resurfaced in the late 1960s when the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland began, and I know I'm going a circuitous route, but trust me, this a…
▶ 31:31
There's a lot of nuggets in here, despite the fact that the guy's very left. The troubles resurfaced in 1979 when Irish Republicans planted a bomb aboard Montbatten's yacht, killing him and one of his grandsons. It was an act of terrorism. …
▶ 32:02
by starvation of Robert Bobby Sands in 1981. Sands was a leading hunger striker in the maze and internment facilities that the Brits had created on an Air Force base in 1971, specifically for IRA paramilitary. Sands' martyrdom brought inter…
▶ 42:23
seen combat several times. He was in the Falklands. He also, let's see, was in the Iraq War and in Bosnia. During the early 1990s, Spicer got his first taste of controversy with his Scott guards had been deployed to Ireland as part of the T…
▶ 42:17
to Ireland under Eisenhower. So Eisenhower in 53? Okay. Yeah, Truman was, yeah, you're right. So I want to see the timeline because I know based on another book that I read, the whole IRA situation was part of Operation Gladio. Every time t…
▶ 43:18
He may have been the chaos agent in Ireland that set that all up with Marshall Plan money. Yeah, and it's not to say that the IRA does predate Operation Gladio by quite some time. The IRS troubles go way back. Everything does, but then they…
▶ 43:45
IRA and the big struggles of the 1960s and 70s, they had to get their weapons from somewhere, which means they were working with the underground, the global underground, which means they had connections with, of course, the CIA. Yes. Well, …