According to Stephen Dorril, at about the same time, Special Branch officers recruited an informant within CND, Stanley Bonnett, on the instructions of MI5.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

Orwell's research for The Road to Wigan Pier led to him being placed under surveillance by the Special Branch in 1936, for 12 years, until one year before the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The British intelligence group Special Branch maintained a file on Orwell for more than 20 years of his life.

David Astor described him as looking like a prep school master, while according to the Special Branch dossier, Orwell's tendency to dress " in Bohemian fashion " revealed that the author was " a Communist ".

" Likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is " certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way.

Nkrumah's association with left wing radicals meant that he was watched by Special Branch whilst he was in England between 1945 and 1947.

Bentine's subsequent investigation into regulations governing private airfields resulted in his writing a report for the Special Branch of the British police into the use of personal aircraft in smuggling operations.

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

After leaving school, Deighton worked as a railway clerk before performing his National Service, which he spent as a photographer for the Royal Air Force's Special Investigation Branch.

The report stated Special Branch officers created false statements, blocked evidence searches and " baby-sat " suspects during interviews.

The gang comprised, in addition to the UVF, rogue elements of the UDR, RUC, SPG, and the regular Army, all acting allegedly under the direction of British Military Intelligence and / or RUC Special Branch.

Colin Wallace, part of the intelligence apparatus of the British Army, asserted in an internal memo in 1975 that MI6 and RUC Special Branch formed a pseudo-gang within the UVF, designed to engage in violence and to subvert moves of the UVF towards the political process.

Recently it has emerged from the Police Ombudsman that senior North Belfast UVF member and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) Special Branch informant Mark Haddock has been involved in drug dealing.

Harling was secreted out of the country by the Special Branch and ended up in the U. S. until his return in 1933 to Ireland.

In 1934 the Fianna Fáil government set up a version of the Free State CID, when they enticed members of the Dublin Brigade IRA to join the Special Branch of An Garda Siochana.

The Special Branch of An Garda Siochana was busy while the camp was in progress, visiting the homes of Fianna members, especially the young scouts, telling the parents that the boys were on an IRA training camp.

The consequence of this action was that about eleven senior officers were arrested by the Special Branch the following Monday morning and brought to the Bridewell.

No one was detained, and most had alibis, as they were at an Ard Coiste meeting at Gardiner Place at the time of the assault and had been seen entering and leaving the building by the Special Branch men who constantly watched that premises.

* The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston, West Roxbury / Roslindale Branch records, 1948 – 1995 are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.

At the trial, counsel for the defence claimed that this was no ordinary crime, telling the court, " they hoped to find material they could take to Special Branch ".

In his autobiography, he claimed he was frequently passed information by sympathetic British army members, and that his own whereabouts were passed to republican paramilitaries by the RUC Special Branch, who, he claimed, hated him.

With a small staff and working in conjunction with the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police, the service was responsible for overall direction and the identification of foreign agents, whilst Special Branch provided the manpower for the investigation of their affairs, arrest and interrogation.

The information had been leaked to him by a member of the Garda Special Branch.

However, there is a Special Branch of the Garda Síochána, now called the Special Detective Unit ( SDU ), or in Irish, Aonad Speisialta Bleachtaireachta.

In 1991, he co-ordinated the 75th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising, during which he claimed he had been harassed by the Special Branch of the Garda Síochána.

In 1965, Doherty became a member of the Garda Síochána ( Irish police force ) and served as a Detective in Sligo before joining the Special Branch in Dublin in the early 1970s.

This ' questionable ' use of Garda / RUC Special Branch liaison, set up under the 1985 Hillsborough Anglo-Irish Agreement, prevented meetings between the Garda commissioner and the RUC chief constable for almost three years.

In the Republic, conviction for membership is possible in the Special Criminal Court, where three judges hear cases without a jury, on the evidence of a Garda superintendent or higher rank, and carries a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment.

It emerged later that Neil Blaney had ordered him to do so outside normal legal channels, but before the weapons arrived the Garda Special Branch had heard of the plan and tipped off the Taoiseach, resulting in criminal charges.

Between 1979 and 1988, he was also an informant for the Garda Síochána's Special Branch.

However, it was the southern Irish government which harassed An Phoblacht most stridently, with regular Garda Special Branch investigations into the publication's links ( both real and alleged ) to the IRA.

Ferris ceased to remain in the Kerry training panel after the Munster Final that year ( which he was unable to play ) due to poor health and Garda Special Branch surveillance.

By late April 1970, the Garda Síochána Special Branch were aware of the plot and had passed the information up to Jack Lynch.

The Garda Síochána ( Irish Police ) Special Detective Unit ( SDU ) provide protection for the Irish President, Mary McAleese, as well as the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

He had a small part in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot ; his part was eventually cut, but can be seen on the Special Edition DVD.

He was eventually accepted to Harvard in 1954 after first enrolling as a student in Harvard's Office of Special Students.

Around 9 p. m. a team from the Special Operations Group of the Tasmania Police had arrived and were eventually able to assist in removing the policemen from the ditch to safety by using the cover of darkness, riot shields and bulletproof jackets.

Indeed, some are eventually deemed psychologically unsuitable as agents ( for example as Mawhrin-Skel notes about itself in The Player of Games ) and must choose ( or choose to choose ) either mental reprofiling or demilitarisation and discharge from Special Circumstances.

900 Free French paratroopers landed as part of the British Special Air Service ( SAS ) Brigade ; the Free French 2nd Armored Division — under General Leclerc — landed at Utah Beach in Normandy on 1 August 1944, and eventually led the drive toward Paris, while the divisions which had been fighting in Italy became part of the French First Army — under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny — and joined the U. S. 7th Army in Operation Dragoon.

John Patrick O ' Neill ( February 6, 1952 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American counter-terrorism expert, who worked as a special agent and eventually a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation until late 2001.

The head of the FBI's Less-Than-Lethal Weapons Program at the time of the 1991 study, Special Agent Thomas W. W. Ward, was fired by the FBI and was sentenced to two months in prison for receiving payments from a peppergas manufacturer while conducting and authoring the FBI study that eventually approved pepper spray for FBI use.

Cary-Elwes and his batman were eventually exfiltrated by sea from northern Brittany on July 1944, on an escape line maintained by MI9, a now-defunct branch of the British War Office Directorate of Intelligence, at this period closely integrated with the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) and the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) who had joint control of the branch and knew it as P15.

Most of the inquiries are fruitless, but in the United Kingdom, the inquiry is eventually passed on to the Special Branch of Scotland Yard, and another veteran detective, Superintendent Bryn Thomas.

Nevertheless, it would seem he was subsequently recruited by MI6 ( Secret Intelligence Service ) before eventually having his name and credentials passed to the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ).

He eventually was promoted to Chief Accounting Officer, where he signed off on the Special Purpose Entities that were Enron's downfall.

A two-volume CD set of recordings from the three shows-The Special Garage Concerts Vol I and The Special Garage Concerts Vol II-was eventually released in 2005.

The Sultanate eventually defeated the incursion with help from the Shah of Iran, Jordanian troops sent from his friend King Hussein of Jordan, British Special Forces, and the Royal Air Force.

When the airborne establishment was expanded, No. 11 Special Air Service Battalion was renamed 1st Parachute Battalion, and eventually formed the nucleus of 1st Parachute Brigade when it was created in September 1941.

Nevertheless, Fung accepted a number of appointments from the Chinese government, joined the Preparatory Committee for the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and while he voted against the setting up of the Provisional Legco in 1996 in the Preparatory Committee, he ( and other ADPL members ) joined the provisional body eventually.

The establishment of a four-star Commander in Chief and an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict eventually gave SOF a voice in the highest councils of the Defense Department.

The 3rd and 4th ( Special Reserve ) Battalions were placed in " suspended animation " in 1921, eventually being disbanded in 1953.

In 1995, he enlisted in the United States Army's reserve component Special Operations Command as a Psychological Operations specialist, holding MOS 37F and eventually achieving the grade of Sergeant.

It has also tested Canadian satellites such as RADARSAT-1 and previously tested the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator which will eventually be installed on the Mobile Servicing System of the International Space Station.

Wonder Woman erased all traces of her previous life as Diana Prince and established a new Diana Prince identity, becoming an Air Force captain, ( eventually major ), serving in the Pentagon as adjutant to Col. Trevor in the Special Assignments Bureau, a special military intelligence program designed to interdict global crises before they develop.

In January 2007, he starred in the episode " Scheherazade " of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as a retired criminal who wants to reconnect with his daughter and admit his crimes before dying of a terminal disease thus eventually clearing a wrongfully imprisoned inmate.

Although far past the age at which he could join the armed forces, Hastings wrote to the Secretary of State for War offering his services, and was eventually contacted by Kingsley Wood, the Secretary of State for Air, who offered him a commission in the Royal Air Force as a squadron leader in Administrative and Special Duties Branch, serving with Fighter Command.

Feely earned NFL Special Teams Player of the Week honors after converting three field goals of more than 40 yards against the Carolina Panthers on October 20, and eventually earned NFC Special Teams Player of the Month honors for converting 9 of 10 field goals and all nine PATs.