Sean McPhilemy produced a television program called, "The Committee" which aired on Britain's highly acclaimed Channel 4, an independent television network. The documentary put forth the thesis that the RUC and prominent members of the Protestant community were assisting Loyalists terrorists in killing Irish Nationalists and Catholics and did so formally as a Committee. When the documentary aired, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) moved to discredit the program by claiming the hidden source had already confessed that the whole story was a hoax. Attempts to smear the program as being infiltrated by IRA members to foster anti-British propaganda appear to have worked with the help of Barrie Penrose and Liam Clark who propped up the RUC allegations of hoax. So much for a free press.

The RUC was put in charge of investigating itself and cleared itself of any wrong doing. Clark and Penrose never appeared to see anything wrong with that and attacked Sean McPhilemy and Channel 4 with allegations made at RUC headquarters. Clark and Penrose regularly put out outlandish stories about the IRA Perhaps they believe the RUC never lie, but than they probably don't pay any attention to cases such as Roisin McAliskey's

Members of UNION have read the book McPhilemy wrote on the whole ordeal. The book is effectively banned in Ireland and the UK by libel laws. You can order the book by clicking on the title above. The members of some of the committee are listed here with the main characters listed above, full listing below is from the appendix of the book.

Albert and David Prentice have filed suit against the publisher and author. Roberts Rinehart Publishers is now fighting the suit and welcomes donations.

BILLY ABERNETHY
Chairman, Ulster Loyalist Central Co-ordinating Committe-The Committee; Ulster Bank Executive; ex-RUC Reserve

HUGH ROSS
Presbyterian Minister; President, Ulster Independence Committee

TREVOR FORBES OBE
RUC Assistant Chief Constable and Head of Special Branch (retired)

JAMES SANDS
Source A; Hugh Ross's "messenger"

JOHN McCULLAGH
Representative, Ulster Resistance paramilitary organization

ISOBEL McCULLOCH
Performed secretarial services, booked halls, etc.

GRAHAM LONG
ex-British Army, Loyalist paramilitary

NELSON McCAUSLAND
Belfast City Councillor; Ulster Unionist Party

DAVID PRENTICE
Businessman; Prentice Garages, Portadown, County Armagh

ALBERT PRENTICE
Businessman; Prentice Garages, Portadown, County Armagh

CHARLES MOFFETT
Accountant, laundered money for arms shipments

RICHARD MONTEITH
Solicitor, Belfast and Portadown, County Armagh

CECIL KILPATRICK
Member, Ulster Independence Committee; Hillsborough, County Down; ex-RUC Reserve

LEWIS SINGLETON
Solicitor; Ulster Independence Committee (See below, Drew Nelson and William David Trimble)

PHILIP BLACK
Staff member, Computer Science Department, Queen's University, Belfast

SAMMY ABRAHAM
Businessman; Akraprint Ltd, Tandragee, County Armagh

WILL DAVIDSON
Major, Ulster Defence Regiment; UDR Representative on Inner Force; Former Chairman, Banbridge District Council (UUP); former B Special; former Justice of the Peace

ALEC JAMISON
Inner Force

ROBIN JACKSON
Assassin; nickname The Jackal

BILLY WRIGHT
Assassin; nickname King Rat

DEAN McCULLOUGH
Portadown/Lurgan Ulster Volunteer Force

ALEC BENSON
Assassin; Loyalist Retaliation and Defence Group, Lisburn, County Atrim

KEN KERR
ex-British Army, Loyalist paramilitary

IAN WHITTLE
RUC Inner Force, Portadown Representative

McPhilemy's book also states four associates of the Committee. Here they are listed.

ALAN CLEGG
RUC Inspector and Head of Lurgan RUC Station when Sam Marshall was murdered by Robin Jackson in March 1990

WILLIAM DAVID TRIMBLE
Member of Parliament for Upper Bann; Leader, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP); Member of the Privy Council which advises the Queen of England; briefed by the Committee leaders while assassination campaign was under way; swore affidavit in libel proceedings brought by Committee member Richard Monteith; defended Committee member Hugh Ross on "Right to Reply"; attacked The Committe television documentary in speeches in the House of Commons; legal representatives: Lewis Singleton and Drew Nelson (see names above)

FRAZER AGNEW
Politician, Ulster Unionist Party; ex-Mayor of Carrickfergus, County Antrim; Associate of Trevor Forbes, named above.

DREW NELSON
Solicitor; Dromore, County Down; Partner in Legal Practive with Lewis Singleton (named above); Signed affidavit on behalf of Richard Monteith (named above) in his unsuccessful criminal libel action against Sean McPhilemy.

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