ARMY'S PHONEY PHOTOS

The 'Sunday Mirror's' army-supplied photo of Doherty • taken when he was in police custody, not when he was arrested.

1. 1'550: by the British army.

But in yesterday's capitalist press the picture above was given sensational treatment as if it was a real-life incident. These come are pictures an a ca central And the Fleet St proprietors, all Tories, are co-operating in using these pictures to slander The "Daily Mail' explained the story behind the picture like this:

'In uneasy Ulster yesterday the woman being dragged away by the police did something which was just plain stupid. She pointed a realistic-looking plastic toy.

'As the woman pulled the model gun from beneath her coat, an NCO raised his own— the real thing-and ordered her to "freeze". She obeyed him, then collapsed, and the toy clattered to the ground.' £l,250 Fund: THESE ARE hoax pictures the IRA, workers and their families.

searching a This preposterous tale was given front-page splash treatment in the 'Daily Mirror' "Dany ple a page in the and page 2 treatment in the 'Daily Telegraph.

The 'Sun' went even furVIOLENCE in N Ireland claimed another victim yesterday morning when landlord Jack Lavery was killed by a bomb planted in his bar. It blew up in his face as he tried to move it.

His death followed that of a 20-year-old girl killed by gunfire in Belfast on Monday night and the shooting of a soldier the same evening. At least a dozen explosions have taken place in the city's crowded shopping area in the past 48 ther (see above). A two-page spread began: 'This is Londonderry where a joke can lead to sudden death,' giving the impression that woman had been killed when she 'played a trick on a British soldier'.

Only the 'Daily Telegraph' carried the remark that the picture was supplied by the Army Information Service.

The picture is dodgy on several counts:

+: He's trying the Queen' imperial crown of the United Kingdom'.

Worded in the same antiquated way, the Movement's •statement says: It will be submitted that this man's desire, endeavour, intention to subordinate the United Kingdom to the Cominon Market by accession to the Treaty of Rome, with the consequent curtailment of the sovereignty of the Crown in Parliament, amount to this offence' We feel constrained to point out that one of the prerequisites of the birth of capitalism in this country was the subordination of royalty to • parliament and was achieved by the rising capitalist class by the simple expedient of cutting off the king's head.

• It is too well-composed uto be an instant kerb.

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Why has the woman's » identity been kept secret? If the story and picture are genuine, why has the army deliberately masked a 10013* *When. did the rcident take place? Some papers make out it was on Monday; others hint that it simply occurred 'recently. • Where did it take place?

The armyu says Londonderry. But what What time of day street?

Last weekend the 'Sunday Mirror' used a full-page picture of Tony 'Dutch' Doherty, the Provisional leader in Belfast. The caption said Doherty was 'a coward fearful of the conand imprisonment uestioning sequences It showed Doherty huddled in a corner with fear in his face as he tried to protect himself (see page one).

The caption further stated that the picture was taken at the 'moment of his arrest' in a Belfast club.

Now, 'however, it has be come clear that the picture was takén by an army photographer when Doherty was undergoing. interrogation at the Flax St barracks, Belfast.

It was placed on the front page of the 'Sunday Mirror' it the specific request of th army chrough ar officer of the Green Howards.

These hoax pictures play a very important part in the army's continuing campaign of brutality and murder against workers, their wives and families.

The toy gun picture is an attempt to clear the army in its policy of 'shoot first, ask questions later'.

(It will be remembered also that controversy surrounded army'i shooting a 16-year-old boy last week who was playins, we with a toy gun.)

Doherty picture formed part of a press campaign to portray him as a coward and a man who had 'spilled the beans' to the army during interrogation.

By publicizing this picture, the army hopes to spread dissension in the IRA's ranks and to destroy confidence in the military leadership, which is erratic enough anyway.

As the head of military intelligence in Ulster, Brig Frank • Kitson, says in his recent book:

•Priority should now be given to teaching officers the methods carrying out large-scale persuasion and to providing the Psychological Operations specialists and quired, which will be reOperations' by kitson, means And "Psychafog cal the turning of govefnment policy "into specific propaganda material such as films, broadcast programmes, newspaper articles, leaflets and SO on'