More information has come to light following the publication of the statement by Kenneth Joseph Lennon, the self-confessed Special Branch informer, found dead last week.
It is now clear that Lennon was operating against industrial militants and the left in Britain, before being switched to infiltrating Sinn Fein.
This can be borne out by information revealed in the Weekend World television programme last Sunday, and in the Dublin newspaper Sunday PROVOCATION IN NEWRY Austin Currie, an SDLP member of the Northern Ireland Executive has since contirmed that the incident in which Lennon was photo graphed dismantling a police barricade was a provocation, designed to spark violence at a peacetul civil rights march in Newry in January 1969.
In all probability Lennon's membership of the Communist Party, and undoubtediy his later involvement with the Socialist Labour League (now Workers Revolutionary Party), was part of a Special Branch operation directed at the Chrysler factory in Luton, where there had been a series of militant struggles against the introduction of Measured Day Work.
The Sunday Times last Sunday (21 April), tried to cover up tor Lennon's history as an informer. They quoted 'one of the [ Workers Revolutionary Party] Party Establishment', as having said: Lennon had good credentials as a shop steward in the car industry. If he had wanted Red Weekly EDITORIAL/FEATURES 01-837 6954 NEWS/REPORTERS 01-278 2616 PRODUCTION 01-837 9987 All at 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1.
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to get on the inside of our organisation he could have donc so. The Sunday Timer postulates that since the then SLL was a priority organisation for infiltration, his remaining outside was proof of his not being an Informer But Alex Mitchell of Workers: Press told Red Weekly that the WRP bad given no such statement, and that they were considering a letter to the Sunday Times denying it. In any case, Lennon did not have to join the SLL to get information abolit militants inside the factory.
RELEASE REPUBLICANS Given the evidence of Lennon's activities apainst trade unionists, and the Special Branch involvement in the Strachans" dispute, the labour movement must campaien lot the releuse of the four Republicans convicted as a result of Lennon's activities, Only this can defear the SB's use of entrapment to put militants This tie-up between SB activity against Irish militants and trade 520-100 TOUS CITEDT organised by the Intelligence and Security Coordinating Committee, which controls Army Intelligence, the Special Branch, the SAS, MI5 and SIS.
In a statement published in the Sunday World, Brendan Magill of Sinn Fein in Britain named five members of this committee, and challeng ed them to deny their membership. He called for them to be subpoenaed to give evidence to a public enquiry into the Lennon affair.
The nien he named were Sir Peter Wilkinson, Lieut. Colonel Louis de Baily. J.P. Watis MC, DSO. Martin Bowlen Hanly, and Maurice Oldfield.
The New Sratesman, in a front page article last Thursday said: If there is one trapping of state power with which Labour can have no truck it is the recruitment and deployment of agents provocateurs.
The New Statesman's concern should be shared by the entire working class movement-and acted upon in the form of a labour movement enquiry into the whole sordid cesspit of the Littlejohn and Lennon + affuirs.
GAVIN ROBINSON