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::The lecturer was an outspoken critic of the apartheid dictatorship, and many years later he discovered that South African Defence Force (SADF) intelligence branch had doctored details from a leaked [[RUC Special Branch]] file, to make him a target for loyalists. | ::The lecturer was an outspoken critic of the apartheid dictatorship, and many years later he discovered that South African Defence Force (SADF) intelligence branch had doctored details from a leaked [[RUC Special Branch]] file, to make him a target for loyalists. | ||
| − | ::The file, originally about an English-born lecturer working in Northern Ireland, who was a secret link between the [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] and the | + | ::The file, originally about an English-born lecturer working in Northern Ireland, who was a secret link between the [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] and the African National Congress, was revised by a South African agent, Leon Flores, in such a way as to suggest that Guelke was the IRA-ANC link. |
::Flores flew to Belfast via London in the autumn of 1991, contacted the [[UDA|Ulster Defence Association]], and provided its south Belfast brigade with the revised intelligence report. | ::Flores flew to Belfast via London in the autumn of 1991, contacted the [[UDA|Ulster Defence Association]], and provided its south Belfast brigade with the revised intelligence report. | ||
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Revision as of 16:23, 24 June 2010
Shooting of Adrian Guelke
Flores provided false intelligence reports that led to the shooting of South-African-born lecturer Dr Adrian Guelke at his home in South Belfast on 4 September 1991.
- The lecturer was an outspoken critic of the apartheid dictatorship, and many years later he discovered that South African Defence Force (SADF) intelligence branch had doctored details from a leaked RUC Special Branch file, to make him a target for loyalists.
- The file, originally about an English-born lecturer working in Northern Ireland, who was a secret link between the IRA and the African National Congress, was revised by a South African agent, Leon Flores, in such a way as to suggest that Guelke was the IRA-ANC link.
- Flores flew to Belfast via London in the autumn of 1991, contacted the Ulster Defence Association, and provided its south Belfast brigade with the revised intelligence report.
- The UDA fell for his story, and targeted the unfortunate academic a few days later.[1]
References
- ↑ Loyalists at war: Duff ammo saved lives, Sunday Life, 26 September 2004, archived on Micheailin's Irish Republican Fenian Blog, accessed 16 June 2009
