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owing information has been rec,delicate source:-;

't As: 25 itta,a ur y eltenficers' Committee' of the Northern Minority Defence Force

'took place between 6.30pm and lOpm. Those invited were told:sleet at the 'Crown' public house, Cricklewood Broadway, NW2,

and were then taken to an office at 35 Cricklewood Broadway,NW2, where the meeting was helid,„ f. te tnmen presentI lowing gjcientified;- 1.•,".

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Pdvagy_ i opened by saying that those persona 4116 had einvited to the meeting had been appointed as the 'HeadquartersStaff' of the N.Y.D.F. They had been appointed because of their'specialised knowledge and previous military experience. He said:that the premises which they were now in had been in use forsome time and was known only to members of the 'Officers' Commit eTo date the office had been ueed solely as a 'dead rietter_bWand a meetinEpl.ace for the original Committee viz i Privacy

Privacynow 1E6 now Bcome:tEb adtiveTead-quarters of-th it-dEd-Voumanned every- evening.

Conversation then turned to the sending of a uniNorthern Ireland. It was the opinion of those present that

. war,was still very imminent in Northern Ireland t7(,

recent action taken by the British Government Privacy 1that having promised that the N.M.D.F. would seL:1assist Active Service Units in the North they would have

' After a long discussion it was decided that the uni ably be Qg most use helping to..4eXen4 New .. .

hey then discussed the practical problems of sending ao Northern Ireland. It was decided that it would be prudent

embers made their way individually to the Republic of Ireland. and then met up at a pre-arranged address in Dublin., Thisaddress, a boarding house belonging to relatives of PrivacyWould be supplied to the members prior to their depaLftiffi:.---TEierwould then move up as a body to a border town or village such asDundalk and under cover of darkness make their way over the bord

11411 -theTmsr* still 2rdt could bestmployed it wee decided to send one or two representativesDublin to have an interview with Joe CAEILL and rely onadvice.. A date for the trip was not finalised.

' On turning to more mundane rietteri,i Pdvacy !

aunced that it woe agreed that instead sectionsthe N.M.D.F. meeting in separate places they should fortime being combine and hold their section meetings atlEemmingford Arms' public house, Offord Road, Ni.

unteers would be informed that the next wouldthere on Wednesday 29 Karch at 8pm.

:'The meeting closed with. Privacy_ ke n&iig metlers two,'address and telephone number (450-8215) of the officeremain. a closely gu,ax.ded.seoret to. be divulged to no!.

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/tb-office is -A one roomed, faltIplette unIt siterittx4.on the first floor above a bookshop at 35 Cricklewood:Broadway, NW2. Also in the building is a firm of solicitors.-!ITLe office is furnished with a desk, chairs, drawing boardstelepene, typewriter and shelves. The shelves contain booksand magazines on Irish heritage. It is not known whether:-the office, which trades under the name of 'Gaelcraft Productsand Eandicrafts' is used entirely aeli-lfront' or whether it'-does in fact conduct some business along.the_lings_indicated.'(The telephone has been registered under L Pdvacy baze

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'The names and Special Branch references of persons ,oned in this report are given in the attacheik-Appensitx

Appendix to Specie

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6. A general meeting of the NMDF wile take Place at the Irisl

Centre nursday 30 March 1972 and a further deellonal meeting

will t place at the 'Hemmingfor“rms' publio ilieese on

Wednesday 5 April 1974,providt be'llmit has no Iready travelaed- ee

SUBJECT.... ..

Northern Minori,ty

.flefenceeForce

Reference to P

APQ/72/16...

ACK-71-8565116M

METROPOLITAN POLICE

1. The following information has been recesource:

2. "On Wednesday 29 March 1972 a etional .eet_eg of the No ernMinority Defence Force took place at the 'Memmingford Arms' PublicLouse, Offerd Road, Nl. The meeting, which commenced at 9m andfinishedat 11nm was chaired byr-- Oii i---1Section Leader forNorth-Beet London. Ten persons were-Present inciu.din, the fallowi

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. !Privacy [said that the time valkAdvaneeWity would set of forvolunt000 might possibly be mobilweek-end ee it was aetreditionalHe then asked each volunteer how mueThe answers ranged frolea couple ofthat in all probability the advancewho could leave in a matter ofsettle their affairs would joinin Ireland.

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4. At this pain/ Pdvacy !took a telephone call and on returni

gave apologies foxl-a-d6H6e from Privacy whose wife was

expecting: a baby, and for. Privacy r Till Privacy 1

absence ttliotilp_r_BIT4 7._was apeointed Sowflon iemier,.for NorthWest Londeli„ L .Privacy , I was then appeinted se6=441i coof that-640tien.1 Privacy who eppaentlr serv-d fer*ght yea

with the Royal FAIgInf,erfi; claims to have a good Elting knowled

of explosives and radio operating. It also transnired t-at the

Second-in-Command of the North-East Section was Privacy

5. Foil the now usual warning by[PdvacOn security precautions

the meeting 'broke into small groups each-dTS-6iiiising the current

situation in Northern :Ireland.

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1. The aallowing..information hael*en received from a reliable

source: _ - . . . • . . . ••

a aaaa- aa a • aaa a a aan:"On Thursday 6 apr'l 70-? a of ta-• • :-.hern nori

afenee Force took ntre, 1 The

aaeting commencel at Lani0ea ,are 14 paa'ans_-resent inclaling Sten un'; the following

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3. The meetint,ppemetiswith the chairman1[ Privacy

annouhoingthat the threat of Civil War in ri,7;1-6,Y17,- ,:ea—to havebeen averted, at least for the next few months. HL said that people

must not, .o;ever, allow themselves to be lulled into a false.eiese

of aecarity because the Irish situation could only be re.- lve4G-4.1-aa

+he end, by the Irish p0091# themselves. Whit- i - and h band of ,?2,

aglish Civil L'ervants were tooling themselv, 'hea gine thd ata

. ay could solve the problems of 1110t4r. [ Priv49Y:1 -ed by

at -in? that it meant that tl- - (4aa NEDF) woald now have t little mca

-ale to train their force. .1 that cor and structure had been

set up and a liemdquarters L. T•'" now lay open for

the regular tritfling of Yolun.,,_ tee,-usefiC, tad.

4. Referring to the march which took place a

said that many aeople joined in the .reh

W S disappointing to see how wide the gep be:

and the Officials (Clann na h iEtteerie),had

public image of Irish organisatilus.Wee not el

on SI- lay hen as one Taiela an.rch was leaving .

enter J. aed - qat a'-ht be

a leL in -Ingia, era. ' ons tt-a ,

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need by what happenedde Park another one

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place p aLS-tol on Saturday 1- April. Ile sai ..,.,, Bristol Anti -

Inter , ent League were organiti'p: A dr'on• tr i n in ,,stol in protest

agaia - the grantina of the of the Cit )ucesters,

who ) t returned from a :7. He said

that apaonstration was tu ber It The 1.30om

and would include Ft aarcP and. aarap #p.4. Ses4 .. . . . . „... . ....... ,....... ... . .

a anged b -Am-to ove roiipe from . nri oncoaci on whIchsst4e Oetitingent would be travé

tó1caveQuex ,P,oad,s THlburn at 1Qam on the 15 4irile prornióe Ors:Oupport from seven of those preisent

that the' tniDfs'per ty ' "tool d proabL .:fiwe1l to at leeenumber '

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received.tated'-ale that-

:J1loI, a n, 'Off' re4,eeting took gece 4t this meeti rs diSCUsset:trainiwprog*Tle for volunteers in u' on radi622-theory, fielAcrr ppn.1,1andling he sftnd gen'raLI.

cip11ne.1 Privacy Ithen sal that ,,tkeire was tl-m-ibility- of-1,_ r -15Inc able toj)btaim-the use of a:piece :ofon whiAlVit would be possible to-train -1.1th weaponc.:He was

• ,Nery 'cagee2:40Iit itsllocation but said that it wits crown land:21r1-,ich had *Alit lea:-ed to a rercon who had falen behind with the

aymieTt.s (rent of £40 per year). If the 1TNV.,vished, they could.I:pay ISO which would give them the use of thiet'land for the next'few months. SeAld not give any further details but said that,the land was about 14.7 hours travel from London. The proposal:that-they should spend Z60 of t4eir funds on this venture wasthew.discussed with the ma,jorit t those present coming out in

Ifaveur of it. Further 4etells were to be obtained and the matt

.-Again discussei at the next Officers' ttin o tn,

The Speci1 ranch references of those persons mentionedhis report together with the Command Structure of the Ma,' areven on Appendices 'A' antV'B' respectively attached to this

eport.

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Tan CAnitON

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lal Branch report dated 7 April l972 concerni

rn Minority Defence Force at the Irish Centr

names and Special Branch re erenc of those

the report and in Appendix 'B'

Mentior; re ITMDF

Unable to identify

Present at :=F meeting 29.3.72

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entions re NMDF

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Mentions re 14MDF

Mentions re NMDF

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Present at N1,".DF meeting 29.3.72

Present at NYDF meeting 29.3.72

Mentions re IT%

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Present t NXDF meeti

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iuBJECT.19'9.r.P*.r.Minoriti- Defence

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Force

Reference to Papers

400/72/16

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METROPOLITAN POLICE

1. The foll(A!ng infL:- tion n received from a reliable

source:-

2. a meeting of the Northern Minorityliefence Force held

at the Irish Centre on Thursday 6 April, _ Privacy_

introduced a supporter who gave his name ail_ Privacy Thu

man is aged about 28, 5,7" tall, slim build with a biáók, unverit

b- ancl_blAcic,_long curly hair. He has a Northern Ireland

accent. Privacy :said that whilst,Privacy:wal not to become

a member-cif-the-iiliit'he was available -to- gaire first-hand

knowledge on military subjects. He was already committed to

'another ori:anisation' and would only be ill gland for the

next sir months.

3. Whenl_ Privacy 1 the treasurer of the NMDIP, *liked

if any officer present was in a position to supply him with

Government leaflets and books which, he said, were readily

available to members of the Civil Service_and.Armed Forces,

on the subject of arms, explosives etc.LPrivacylsaid that he

had several ex-colleagues in the 'RangeriT-it ixesent based

in Somerset. lie said that if', Privacy lwished, he would

travel down to Somerset and obtain copies. Privacy said

that the pamphlets Were not:tor use in this coa-nri.

Pdvac said thatAiSwould ftsctiolia this w1thprivacy at a

4.: Privacy was seen to drive a private black Au.bti

sa1-d8b-777.7)r car,registration mark! Privacy Iv/hi

registration".

5. Special Branch references to the persons . e

contained in an ariendix to this report.

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