Force Research Unit (FRU) is alleged to be a name used by a covert military intelligence unit established by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army based at Templer Barracks, Ashford in Kent. The FRU is alleged to have been formed between 1980 and 1981 replacing an existing unit as an agent handling capability. The FRU is claimed to have been based at the Intelligence Corps centre at Thiepval Barracks, Northern Ireland from where its members recruited and handled agents.
The FRU and its members are alleged to been engaged in a policy of collusion with loyalist paramilitaries during the 1980s and 1990s, and to have contributed to the assassinations of at least 14 Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland between 1987-1991 along with the deaths of two senior members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
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