Espionage And Assasination With Michael Collins' Intelligence Unit: With the Dublin Brigade
“Hardly a day passed without some important operation taking place.
About this time, January 1921, we had been very much occupied with the activities of a certain group of RIC under the leadership of a west of Ireland man whom I shall refer to as Nemo.
This group was composed of about twelve policemen from those parts of the country where the Volunteers were most active. Each policeman had been attached to the Crimes Special (Political) Branch in his district for a number of years, and h...ad made it his business to know the political opinions of all the people in the neighbourhood.
The group had now been stationed in Dublin for some time. They patrolled the principal streets in civilian clothes, on the lookout for any Volunteer up from the country. They greatly interfered with the mobility of the Volunteers and were one of the most effective arms operating against us.
A Volunteer named Howlett on arrival at the Broadstone Station had been met by this gang and shot dead; and this was but the first of a series of such acts committed under Nemo’s leadership.MoreLess
About this time, January 1921, we had been very much occupied with the activities of a certain group of RIC under the leadership of a west of Ireland man whom I shall refer to as Nemo.
This group was composed of about twelve policemen from those parts of the country where the Volunteers were most active. Each policeman had been attached to the Crimes Special (Political) Branch in his district for a number of years, and h...ad made it his business to know the political opinions of all the people in the neighbourhood.
The group had now been stationed in Dublin for some time. They patrolled the principal streets in civilian clothes, on the lookout for any Volunteer up from the country. They greatly interfered with the mobility of the Volunteers and were one of the most effective arms operating against us.
A Volunteer named Howlett on arrival at the Broadstone Station had been met by this gang and shot dead; and this was but the first of a series of such acts committed under Nemo’s leadership.MoreLess
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