did not think I would get any joy: The only thing he would say about
Ewins was that he understood that he had gone back to England: he had
not heard anything of him for many years.
Conversation with Rev Martin Smyth, Ulster Unionist MP for South
Belfast. November 10 1994.
Smyth confirmed that he and Harold McCusker had informed the RUC that
Graham was a target. They had been told by UDA paramilitaries in the
Maze Prisoa that the IRA had approached them for information about
Graham, saying that it was in everyone's interest to kift him. Smyth
said that the RUC had refused to give Graham protection, claiming that
he was mot a target.
Smyth said he did not have any evidence of the intelligence services”
involvement, but be did not rule it out. He said that Kennedy Lindsay
had written a book, "The British Intelligence Services In Action”,
which had looked at a case of the intelligence services attempting to
kill a member of the UDR.
He said Graham's uncle was a senior member of the RUC at the time of
the murder - possibly connected with the RUC press office (he did not
know whether this uncle was from the mother or the father’s side).
He said that the law faculty at Queen’s University had for many years
had a reputation for harbouring IRA sympathisers. He said that one
lecturcr, AMMMEMNB (who arrived there in 1969, but who had left
before the Graham murder), was well known for her IRA sympathics and
had in fact had to leave the university because of them. He said that
for many years students from the unionist tradition would simply not
study law at Queen's University out of fears for their safety. Indeed.
one student called @MEMMMMMMB had bad to go to England to finish his
course because of threats he had received as a result of his
involvement in unionist polities.
He also mentioned a book by Avro Manhattan called ‘Religious Terror in
Ireland’ (published in the early seventies) in which a lecturer at QU
is named as an IRA sympathiscr (NOTE: the book names a Mr Dolley as a
‘lecturer, writer and expert on Irish history’. However the name is
clearly a pseudonym and it is not clear where Mr Dolley is @
lecturer).
Conversation with David Trimble. Ulster Unionist MP for Upper
November 11 1994.
David Trimble was 4 senior member of Queen's University Faculty of Law
at the time of Edgar Graham's murder. Graham was a good friend.
He knows that some people have suggested that the intelligence
services were involved in Graham's murder but he feels the genesis of
the assassination is more mundane: Graham, who was a persuasive and
convincing speaker, appeared in a debate in the Students’ Union about
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