4 August 1973
New York Times Abstracts
2 Brit, brothers Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn, up for sentencing for bank robbery, on Aug 3 state before Special Criminal Ct in Dublin that they were recruited by Brit intelligence to infiltrate and discredit IRA; Kenneth is imprisoned for 20 yrs and Keith draws 15 yrs for their part in theft of $167,000 from Dublin bank in Oct '72; Kenneth tells ct that plan to discredit IRA was drawn up by Geoffrey Johnson Smith, junior defense min for army, and Lady P Onslow, whom he describes as friend of Defense Min Lord Carrington; says that through his brother he met Onslow and that she arranged meeting in London with Smith; holds that later he met with Defense Ministry contacts in GB and Ireland and handed over information on IRA arms dumps, plans for assassinations and for importation of weapons; says Brit intelligence activities were designed to force Irish Govt to put greater pressure on suspected members of IRA; says Brit told him to use his influence in IRA to create trouble in Irish Repub
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