His immediate superior was the Colditz escapee Airey Neave.

The first action to bring the INLA to international notice was its assassination on 30 March 1979 of Airey Neave, one of Margaret Thatcher's closest political supporters.

Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, DSO, OBE, MC ( 23 January 1916 – 30 March 1979 ) was a British soldier, barrister and politician.

During World War II, Neave was one of the few servicemen to escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle.

Neave was assassinated in 1979 in a car-bomb attack at the House of Commons.

His father was the grandson of Sheffield Neave, the third son of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet ( see Neave Baronets ).

Neave was sent to St. Ronan's School, Worthing, and from there, in 1929, he went to Eton College.

When Neave was asked why, he answered: " since war coming, it only sensible to learn as much as possible about the art of waging it ".

By his own admission, while at Oxford University, Neave did only the minimal amount of academic work that was required of him by his tutors.

Neave returned to Britain through France, Spain, and Gibraltar and was the first British officer to make a " home run " from Colditz.

Airey Neave was a Governor of Imperial College between 1963 and 1971 and was a member of the House of Commons select committee on Science and Technology between 1965 and 1970.

Edward Heath, when Chief Whip, was alleged to have told Neave that after he suffered his heart attack his career was finished but in his 1998 autobiography, Heath strongly denied ever making such a remark.

When all three refused to stand, Neave agreed to be the campaign manager for Margaret Thatcher's attempt to become leader of the Conservative Party, that was eventually victorious.

In opposition, Neave was a strong supporter of Roy Mason, who took a hard line against both Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries.

Neave was author of the new and radical Conservative policy of abandoning devolution if there was no early progress in that regard and concentrating on local government reform instead.

This integrationist policy was hastily abandoned by Humphrey Atkins, who became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the role Neave had shadowed.

Politician Tony Benn records in his diary ( 17 February 1981 ) that a journalist from the New Statesman, Duncan Campbell, told him that he had received information from an intelligence agent two years previously that Neave had planned to have Benn assassinated if a Labour Government was elected, James Callaghan resigned and there was a possibility that Benn might be elected Party Leader in his place.

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* Sheffield Airey Neave 1933 The History of the Entomological Society of London, 1833-1933 Printed by R. Clay & sons, London

* 1979 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster.

* March 30 – Airey Neave, World War II veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the British House of Commons car park.

** Airey Neave, British politician ( assassinated ) ( b. 1916 )

In 1984, Powell claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency had murdered Earl Mountbatten of Burma and that the deaths of the MPs Airey Neave and Robert Bradford were carried out by the USA in order to stop Neave's policy of integration for Northern Ireland.

Memorial plaque to Airey Neave at his alma mater, Merton College, Oxford

On 14 April 1992, the INLA carried out its first killing in England after the death of Airey Neave, when they shot dead a recruiting Army Sergeant in Derby.

Benn, however, discounted the validity of the story and wrote in his diary: " No one will believe for a moment that Airey Neave would have done such a thing ".

Memorial plaque to Airey Neave at his alma mater, Merton College, Oxford.

Airey Neave was killed on 30 March 1979, when a magnetic car bomb fitted with a ball bearing tilt switch exploded under his Vauxhall Cavalier at 2: 58 p. m. as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park.

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It was the first assassination of an MP since Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812 and the last until Airey Neave ’ s assassination by the INLA in 1979.

Airey Neave described her as " one of our greatest agents ".

* Little Cyclone by Airey Neave ( Little Cyclone was the nickname given to Andrée de Jongh by her father.

Tory Action was a right-wing pressure group within the British Conservative Party, founded by in November 1974 by George Kennedy Young and Airey Neave and right-wing defectors from the Monday Club.

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* Richard Neave ( 1783 – 1785 )

Diana Josceline Barbara Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon ( 7 July 1919 – 27 November 1992 ), born Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard.

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