The Hidden War: British Psy-Ops & The Troubles
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the early 1970s, the British Army engaged in psychological operations (psy-ops) and black propaganda to cover up their actions during the Falls Curfew. This episode reveals the shadowy tactics used to manipulate public perception and obscure the truth. In this third and final part of Three Days in July, I uncover how the security forces manipulated Zbigniew Uglik's memory and histroy. They also intimated and harassed his family into silence when they demanded the truth. The episode also uncovers those involved and their motives behind these deceptive practices.
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Written and Researched by Fin Dwyer
Based on Original Research by the Belfast writer and journalist Pádraig Ó Meiscil. His substack is available here. You can reach him by email at [email protected]
A Special Word of Thanks to Marta Riehle Stern for sharing her family's history.
Interviewees: Marta Riehle Stern & Pádraig Ó Meiscil
Additional Narrations by Aidan Crowe and Therese Murray
Sound by Kate Dunlea
Additional Thanks: Sebastian Zimnoch and Stephanie Ní Thiarnaigh
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| 0:28.1 | Search workspace.co. UK. Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast. My name is Finn Duwara. |
| 0:39.0 | Now 54 years ago, almost to the day that this episode is released, the Falls Curfew |
| 0:46.1 | saw the British Army besieged a large working class neighborhood in Belfast in what proved |
| 0:51.3 | to be pivotal events in the outbreak of the troubles. |
| 0:55.0 | The previous episodes in this series explored how hundreds were detained over those three days |
| 1:00.6 | and thousands were barricaded into their homes. Four people, Charles Reneel, William |
| 1:06.3 | Burns, Patrick Ellaman and the focus of this series, Zibignia Vuglich, were murdered by soldiers of the British Army over that weekend as well. |
| 1:16.0 | This podcast, The Final in the series Three Days in July, reveals the dark history and cover-up |
| 1:22.3 | by the security forces to mask what they had done in the |
| 1:25.7 | lower falls in July 1970. |
| 1:28.7 | Through this show I'm going to reveal how the victim's families were intimidated, how their loved ones memories were manipulated |
| 1:35.3 | and used in a shadowy war of scyops and black propaganda by the British Army to mask the growing |
| 1:42.0 | numbers of atrocities in the opening phase of the Troubles. |
| 1:45.2 | Now this stuff can be hard to get your head around so I've taken my time with this episode. |
| 1:51.6 | If you want to learn more about the outbreak of the Troubles I have a multi-part |
| 1:55.2 | series now available for show supporters at patreon.com forward slash Irish podcast. |
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