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'''British Military Intelligence Systems in Northern Ireland''' is a term used to describe various [[HUMINT]], [[ELINT]], and [[SIGINT]] systems used by the RUC and British Army Intelligence in [[Northern Ireland]]. There have been a number of systems with only some described below. It is unclear which of these systems are still in operation or which have been upgraded to more sophisticated systems. It is suspected that [[Thiepval Barracks]] British military HQ and [[Knock Barracks]] (RUC HQ) form the primary processing hubs for these systems.
| Image = Ron Prince.jpg
| Caption = Prince at the KC Catbackers summer 2006 event
| DateOfBirth = {{Birth date and age|1969|9|18|mf=y}}
| Birthplace = [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha, NE]]
| Sport = [[College football]]
| College = [[Kansas State University|Kansas State]]
| Title = Head Coach
| CurrentRecord = 16-15
| OverallRecord = 16-15
| Awards = None
| Championships = None
| CFbDWID = 4167
| Player = Y
| Years = 1988-89<br />1990-91
| Team = [[Dodge City Community College|Dodge City CC]]<br />[[Appalachian State University|Appalachian State]]
| Position = [[Offensive tackle|OT]]
| Coach = Y
| CoachYears = 1992 <br /> 1993 <br /> 1994 <br /> 1995-1997<br /> 1998-2000<br /> 2001-2005<br /> 2006-Present
| CoachTeams = [[Dodge City Community College|Dodge City C.C.]] (Volunteer) <br />[[Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University|Alabama A&M]] (OL) <br />[[South Carolina State University|South Carolina State]] (OL) <br />[[James Madison Dukes football|James Madison]] (OL) <br />[[Cornell Big Red|Cornell]] (OL) <br />[[Virginia Cavaliers football|Virginia]] (OC)<br />[[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]]
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'''Ron Prince''' (born [[September 18]], [[1969]], in [[Omaha, Nebraska]]) is the head [[American football|football]] coach at [[Kansas State University]]. He is presently one of six [[African-American]] head coaches in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Division I]]-Bowl Subdivision.


==Coaching career==
Prince succeeded [[head coach]] [[Bill Snyder]] at [[Kansas State]] following the [[2005 NCAA Division I-A football season|2005 season]]. When he started his first season at Kansas State, in [[2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season|2006]], he was 36 years old and the third-youngest head coach in the Division I-Bowl Subdivision.


During the 2006 season, Prince led Kansas State to its first winning record since [[2003 NCAA Division I-A football season|2003]] with a 7-6 mark, as well as a berth in the inaugural [[Texas Bowl]]. The hallmark win of the regular season was a 45-42 upset of then #4 [[Texas Longhorns football|University of Texas]] on November 11, 2006. Kansas State lost the 2006 Texas Bowl to #16 [[Rutgers University]] 37-10.


In Prince's second season, Kansas State slipped to a 5-7 record, including a four-game losing streak to end the year. He also led the Wildcats to their first home loss against Kansas in over a decade.
==Vengeful & Crucible==
Vengeful is dedicated to tracking vehicles of suspects.<ref>Suspects being those under suspicion of involvement with paramilitaries, or any vehicle deemed a 'target' and thought operationally fruitful to track via the system.</ref> Vengeful's counterpart, (for logging and classifying the names and locations of people connected to the vehicles), was a system titled "Crucible". Vengeful is fully integrated to the Northern Ireland vehicle licensing office (DVLNI). Crucible operates in tandem with Vengeful, holding a personal file containing a map/picture showing where suspects live as well as details of their family and past.


On [[National Signing Day]] in February 2008, 19 [[junior college]] recruits signed to play football at Kansas State, although only 15 of them were able to enroll in the fall. As a result, Kansas State's 2008 recruiting class reportedly contains more junior college players than any other class ever compiled by current [[Bowl Championship Series|BCS]] teams. Some have criticized this as "panicking" to get good players, while others have praised Prince's moves, pointing out his predecessor [[Bill Snyder]]'s success with using junior college players.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/sports/ncaafootball/23kstate.html?ref=sports|title=Kansas State Sees Players Where Some See Panic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3514911&name=feldman_bruce|title=How desperate is K-State's Ron Prince this year?}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kansascity.com/165/story/761133.html|title=The pros and cons of raiding the junior colleges for players}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cjonline.com/stories/081608/cat_319265753.shtml|title=Playboy envisions breakthrough year for K-State}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kansas.com/sports/lutz/story/504439.html|title=Juco-heavy Wildcats take a risk}}</ref>
===Scope of Vengeful===


At the beginning of Prince's third season, on August 7, 2008, Ron Prince agreed to a new contract locking him up through the 2012 season. The deal is retroactive to January 1, 2008, runs through December 31, 2012, and replaces the original contract signed in December of 2005. Coach Prince's base salary for 2008 will be $143,000 with a total guaranteed package of $1.1 million, which also includes payments from endorsements such as T.V., radio, internet, personal appearances and apparel. Prince could also earn up to an additional $950,000 per year in performance-based incentives.<ref>[http://www.kstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=3065&SPID=212&DB_OEM_ID=400&ATCLID=1551188 Prince signs new contract<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.kansascity.com/165/story/740231.html Details of Prince's contract<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Together the two systems extend a blanket coverage of surveillance over the movement and activities of the entire population of Northern Ireland.<ref>Geraghty estimated in 1999 that 1 million people (living) appeared in Crucible</ref> Intelligence data gained via the systems is graded from a basic, 'Green Army' Level III, available to ordinary line battalions, to Level V (brigade headquarters and above) to a level of joint Intelligence which, in theory at least, is the pinnacle of sensitive information provided by [[14 Intelligence Company]], [[MI5]] and the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]] (RUC) [[Special Branch]].


===Previous coaching stops===
Examples of data held in Crucible & Vengeful:
Before coming to [[Kansas State]], Prince served for three seasons as [[offensive coordinator]] under [[Al Groh]] at the [[University of Virginia]], and for a total of five years as the [[Virginia Cavaliers|Cavaliers]]' offensive line coach. Prior to his years at Virginia, Prince also served as an assistant coach at [[South Carolina State University|South Carolina State]], [[James Madison University|James Madison]] and [[Cornell University|Cornell]].
*The lowest level information would note that 'Mr. X and Mr. Y meet in a certain bar and have drinks'. Information like this could be gained from a [[Ulster Defence Regiment]] (UDR)/RUC patrol/checkpoint.
*At a higher level, Mr. X would be noticed in an area where he is not usually noticed. Information like this could originate from an Army/RUC [[watchtower]], [[helicopter]], [[bugging]], [[informer]], etc.


===Record as head coach===
Details on both contacts would be relayed back to the Intelligence processing centre for storage and processing.
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===Record against Big 12 teams===
Top-level data, that is data considered 'Secret', would be mostly handled via the [[Joint Action Unit]], (Northern Ireland JACUNI). Information JACUNI is believed to have handled include the PIRA attack on [[Loughgall]] in May 1987. JACUNI are believed to have been aware of the attack before it happened, allowing a trap to be sprung.<ref>In his book "The Irish War" 1988 Tony Geraghty alleges that the PIRA volunteers who took part in the attack in Loughgall were set up by an [[informer]] within the attacking unit. This informer being inadvertently killed on the day of the attack. Writing in the 2004 book ''Stakeknife'' the [[Force Research Unit]] (FRU) agent using the pseudonym "[[Martin Ingram]]" disputes this and says that the operation did not have a [[Mole (espionage)|mole]] and was uncovered prior to the attack by bugging.</ref>
*As of October 4, 2008.
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==Personal information==
There are strong rumours that this system is also in operation, and has been for some time, within mainland UK.
Although Prince was born in [[Nebraska]], he was raised in [[Junction City, Kansas]], a town 30 minutes west of Kansas State's campus in [[Manhattan, Kansas]]. He was raised by parents Ernest and Georgeanne Prince. He is married to the former Zo Ahern of Valhalla, New York and they have three sons, Deuce (6), James (4), and John (1), and a daughter, Grace (3).


Prince attended Junction City High School, where he graduated in 1988. He began his college football career at [[Dodge City Community College]], then transferred to [[Appalachian State University]], where graduated and played on the offensive line under coach [[Jerry Moore]].
===GLUTTON Data capture===


==References==
By the time of the PIRA ceasefires of 1994 and 1997 - 1998, the British army had modernized its systems. The scale and cost of this programme reflected the army's belief that it would continue to fight an Intelligence war in Northern Ireland for years to come and that the surveillance war would increasingly become part of normal life in England as the PIRA launched new attacks in Britain. As a result of budget increases various attempts were made to create an overarching system encompassing HUMINT, ELINT, and SIGINT streams which also collated and analysed within a short time frame.
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==External links==
The first move towards this was to unify vehicle data held in Vengeful with cameras able to read [[Vehicle registration plate|vehicle number plates]] at public locations ([[Automatic number plate recognition|ANPR]]). Once these details were captured and stored they could be linked to the suspect data held in Crucible. The automatic number plate registration cameras were code-named 'GLUTTON'. During 1997, eighty overt GLUTTON cameras were switched on at unidentified public sites in Northern Ireland. Another twenty were covert. The covert data capture for Vengeful was to be collected at surveillance points on routes which suspects would likely use to avoid RUC and British Army checkpoints.
*[http://www.kstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=3070&SPID=212&DB_OEM_ID=400&ATCLID=220015&Q_SEASON=2007 Kansas State biography]
*[http://www.texasbowl.org Texas Bowl]


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GLUTTON was also put into operation in Britain. The sites Glutton initially operated were in England and included unspecified ports on the east and west coasts. Intelligence gathered from this effort was to be categorized as:
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*'coarse-grain' - overt framework operations which record the movements of suspects through predefined associates and any "suspicious activity",
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*'fine-grain' - covert, point-targeted, as tasked by the RUC/RUC Special Branch.
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==Caister & Calshot==


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'CAISTER' (similar to [[C4ISTAR]]) was a new Intelligence focused computer system predicated on a [[Knowledge-based systems|Knowledge-based system]] (KBS) architecture. It was designed to replace Crucible in sifting personal information about suspects. Caister and its variant '[[Calshot]]', identified significant links between one suspect and another instead of leaving the intelligence officer to establish arbitrary relationships in a database. As with Crucible, Caister would have had access to the files on everyone noted as being 'in' or 'connected with' the conflict in Northern Ireland. According to a source quoted in Geraghty's book, a single document would utilise processing suites at Thiepval Barracks and Knock to sift data. These bases were in turn connected to up to 350 terminals spread out over Northern Ireland. Each terminal was able to retrieve data up to "Secret" level depending on the clearance a particularly user had. The system reportedly averaged a response time of ten seconds for a single enquiry with over 192 concurrent references.
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==Effigy & Mannequin==
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In 1997, after the successful trial of another Artificial Intelligence system codenamed "Effigy", the British [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] (MoD) launched an attempt to integrate "Effigy" with Vengeful. This was done under the code-name "Mannequin". The new system was expected to be put into service by 1998 and its aim was to leverage the maximum from data collected and stored on British Military and Intelligence systems, with a reasonable response time, up to 'Secret' level.
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==Impact of computer systems on the PIRA==

As the new systems were being trialled, a [[Welsh Guards]] sergeant, dumped his unwanted secret papers in an unclassified dustbin instead of the shredder at the end of his tour of duty in [[South Armagh]] in September 1997. The documents, together with computer disks, were taken to a civilian dump and later found their way to the PIRA. In January 1998, ''[[An Phoblacht]]'', exposed the material including aerial photographs and maps showing the homes of twenty-one alleged PIRA suspects and details of the Vengeful system. One of the suspects was [[Pat McNamee]], a Sinn Féin councillor in [[Crossmaglen]], County [[Armagh]]. He said the documents showed that the army had never called a ceasefire and had exploited the IRA's truce to infiltrate nationalist areas. He added:

<blockquote>"This calls into question the commitment of the British Government to the peace process. The really scary thing from a personal point of view is that these documents could have fallen into the hands of Loyalist assassins. Given the history of collusion between British forces and Loyalist killers, there is obvious concern that this material could have fallen into the hands of loyalist killers."</blockquote>

A 1997 [[G2]] (branch of Irish Intelligence) report also quoted in "The Irish War" states:

<blockquote>"Integral to surveillance is monitoring and manipulating all terrorist communication and information systems. In Northern Ireland this is conducted by special troops and controlled at strategic level."</blockquote>

==Advancements in surveillance in Britain==

In the early 1990s £20 million was invested in the Metropolitan Police Crime Report Information System, CRIS, while [[HOLMES]] (Home Office Large Major Enquiry System) was then in use in both [[London]] and [[Manchester]], major target areas for the PIRA.<ref>HOLMES had been switched on in London & Manchester in 1986 and was used in all major incidents including serial murders, multi-million pound fraud cases and major disasters including bombing attacks.</ref> Surveillance cameras around sensitive areas such as the City of London, linked to computers which automatically identified suspect vehicles within four seconds, evolved into computerized, digital maps of human faces. Among the first PIRA volunteers to be captured as a result of this systems use in Britain were the Harrods bombers, Jan Taylor, aged fifty-one, former army corporal, and Patrick Hayes, aged forty-one, a computer programmer with a degree in business studies.<ref>The particular attack on Harrods both men were involved in happened in 1993, detailed [http://libcom.org/library/red-action-ira-london-bombs-independent here]. In 1994, the [[Metropolitan Police]] in London decided to create [[HOLMES 2]].</ref>

==Footnotes==
<references/>

==Sources==
* [http://www.madden-finucane.com/patfinucane/index.htm Information regarding the murder of Pat Finucane]
* [[Tony Geraghty]]: ''The Irish War'' Johns Hopkins University Press 1988
* Article by [[Duncan Campbell (investigative journalist)|Duncan Campbell]] on the attempt to prosecute Geraghty & his source [http://www.guardian.co.uk/freedom/Story/0,2763,391398,00.html here] and [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,292939,00.html here].
* Guardian bio of Nigel Wylde, Geraghty's source [http://cryptome.sabotage.org/e2-v-wylde2.htm here].

==See also==
*[[C4ISTAR]]
*[[Martin Ingram]]
*[[Force Research Unit]]
*[[MI5]]
*[[MI6]]

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Ron Prince

Ron Prince (born September 18, 1969, in Omaha, Nebraska) is the head football coach at Kansas State University. He is presently one of six African-American head coaches in the NCAA Division I-Bowl Subdivision.

Coaching career

Prince succeeded head coach Bill Snyder at Kansas State following the 2005 season. When he started his first season at Kansas State, in 2006, he was 36 years old and the third-youngest head coach in the Division I-Bowl Subdivision.

During the 2006 season, Prince led Kansas State to its first winning record since 2003 with a 7-6 mark, as well as a berth in the inaugural Texas Bowl. The hallmark win of the regular season was a 45-42 upset of then #4 University of Texas on November 11, 2006. Kansas State lost the 2006 Texas Bowl to #16 Rutgers University 37-10.

In Prince's second season, Kansas State slipped to a 5-7 record, including a four-game losing streak to end the year. He also led the Wildcats to their first home loss against Kansas in over a decade.

On National Signing Day in February 2008, 19 junior college recruits signed to play football at Kansas State, although only 15 of them were able to enroll in the fall. As a result, Kansas State's 2008 recruiting class reportedly contains more junior college players than any other class ever compiled by current BCS teams. Some have criticized this as "panicking" to get good players, while others have praised Prince's moves, pointing out his predecessor Bill Snyder's success with using junior college players.[1][2][3][4][5]

At the beginning of Prince's third season, on August 7, 2008, Ron Prince agreed to a new contract locking him up through the 2012 season. The deal is retroactive to January 1, 2008, runs through December 31, 2012, and replaces the original contract signed in December of 2005. Coach Prince's base salary for 2008 will be $143,000 with a total guaranteed package of $1.1 million, which also includes payments from endorsements such as T.V., radio, internet, personal appearances and apparel. Prince could also earn up to an additional $950,000 per year in performance-based incentives.[6][7]

Previous coaching stops

Before coming to Kansas State, Prince served for three seasons as offensive coordinator under Al Groh at the University of Virginia, and for a total of five years as the Cavaliers' offensive line coach. Prior to his years at Virginia, Prince also served as an assistant coach at South Carolina State, James Madison and Cornell.

Record as head coach

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP°
Kansas State (Big 12) (2006–present)
2006 Kansas State 7–6 4–4 T-2nd (North) L Texas Bowl
2007 Kansas State 5–7 3–5 4th (North)
2008 Kansas State 4–2 1–1 T-2nd (North)
Kansas State: 16–15 8–10
Total: 16–15

Record against Big 12 teams

  • As of October 4, 2008.
Team Wins Losses
Baylor Bears 1 1
Colorado Buffaloes 2 0
Iowa State Cyclones 1 1
Kansas Jayhawks 0 2
Missouri Tigers 0 2
Nebraska Cornhuskers 0 2
Oklahoma Sooners 0 0
Oklahoma State Cowboys 1 1
Texas Longhorns 2 0
Texas A&M Aggies 1 0
Texas Tech Red Raiders 0 1
Total 7 10

Personal information

Although Prince was born in Nebraska, he was raised in Junction City, Kansas, a town 30 minutes west of Kansas State's campus in Manhattan, Kansas. He was raised by parents Ernest and Georgeanne Prince. He is married to the former Zo Ahern of Valhalla, New York and they have three sons, Deuce (6), James (4), and John (1), and a daughter, Grace (3).

Prince attended Junction City High School, where he graduated in 1988. He began his college football career at Dodge City Community College, then transferred to Appalachian State University, where graduated and played on the offensive line under coach Jerry Moore.

References

  1. ^ "Kansas State Sees Players Where Some See Panic".
  2. ^ "How desperate is K-State's Ron Prince this year?".
  3. ^ "The pros and cons of raiding the junior colleges for players".
  4. ^ "Playboy envisions breakthrough year for K-State".
  5. ^ "Juco-heavy Wildcats take a risk".
  6. ^ Prince signs new contract
  7. ^ Details of Prince's contract

External links

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