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Is there an Irish Secret Service?

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  • #92
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    * gets fake glasses with nose and bushy eyebrows attached...:cool:


  • #93
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    "If any of your force are caught or killed the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions"
    You have been warned!


  • #94
    everdead.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    Ireland have a very successful military and Garda intelligence branches. They also have an irish secret service who if you check the indo came in under budget in 2012 I'll see if I can find the article.

    But during ww2 it was irish intelligence that broke a significant amount of the enigma code in Dublin but don't tell anyone other wise the allies wouldn't be able to give out about us.

    The Americans and British were worried about us though and the CIA sent people over to spy on us and were supposedly met as they came off the plane by irish military intelligence and given the tour they left happy.

    I should also mention irish and Israeli army officers are the only officers who receive intelligence training by default no other country does this.

    Edit not the one I was looking for but confirms its existence http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/budget-for-secret-service-increases-to-1m-26705265.html


  • #95
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    franktheplank wrote: »
    (and where do I join?)

    Good nickname you picked.


  • #96
    Capt'n Midnight
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    everdead.ie wrote: »
    But during ww2 it was irish intelligence that broke a significant amount of the enigma code in Dublin but don't tell anyone other wise the allies wouldn't be able to give out about us.
    good story but it fell flat on it's face with the enigma bit


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  • #97
    Frosty McSnowballs
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    Wikipedia.....LOL


  • #98
    Victor
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    everdead.ie wrote: »
    But during ww2 it was irish intelligence that broke a significant amount of the enigma code in Dublin but don't tell anyone other wise the allies wouldn't be able to give out about us.

    The Americans and British were worried about us though and the CIA sent people over to spy on us and were supposedly met as they came off the plane by irish military intelligence and given the tour they left happy.
    You do realise the CIA wasn't formed until two years after the war ended?


  • #99
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    The Secret Service budget allocation is the kitty available for the paying off of garda informants and the like, as far as I know. Nothing too exciting about it


  • #100
    i chop your dollar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 ✭i chop your dollar


    It wasn't so long ago that a dissident republican was arrested with the names of all 50 members of the ERU who apparently are as close as you may come to an Irish Secret Service.
    By the sounds of it, they aint doing that great of a job especially when some are eating in the bar across the road from their main headquarters in Dublin City Centre :pac:


  • #101
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    i chop your dollar wrote: »
    It wasn't so long ago that a dissident republican was arrested with the names of all 50 members of the ERU who apparently are as close as you may come to an Irish Secret Service.
    By the sounds of it, they aint doing that great of a job especially when some are eating in the bar across the road from their main headquarters in Dublin City Centre :pac:

    The ERU would be something more akin to a SWAT team than an intelligence agency. Various other units of the gardai and defence forces cover that function, such that it is needed.


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  • #102
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    You know, the snow covers the rooftops in Belgrade this time of year....:cool:


  • #103
    i chop your dollar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 ✭i chop your dollar


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    The ERU would be something more akin to a SWAT team than an intelligence agency. Various other units of the gardai and defence forces cover that function, such that it is needed.

    I'd imagine they're more versatile than you might think.


  • #104
    EireGun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭EireGun


    i chop your dollar wrote: »
    It wasn't so long ago that a dissident republican was arrested with the names of all 50 members of the ERU who apparently are as close as you may come to an Irish Secret Service.
    By the sounds of it, they aint doing that great of a job especially when some are eating in the bar across the road from their main headquarters in Dublin City Centre :pac:

    What's the source of that information? The names of all ERU operators?


  • #105
    billyhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,078 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    The ERU would be something more akin to a SWAT team than an intelligence agency. Various other units of the gardai and defence forces cover that function, such that it is needed.

    This is true actually. The ERU are similar to the american swat team or in the army the army rangers. An I rish secret service would be made up of detectives but would have a role similar to the CIA or FBI


  • #106
    Filibuster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 361 ✭✭Filibuster


    Garda Special Branch. I read an interesting book about them running informants in the IRA during the troubles.


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