Cathal Goulding
[9] During his time in Wakefield prison, he befriended EOKA members and Klaus Fuchs, a German-born spy who had passed information about the US nuclear programme to the Soviet Union.He believed the British state deliberately divided the Irish working class on sectarian grounds, in order to exploit them and keep them from uniting and overthrowing their bourgeois oppressors.In August 1969 Goulding issued a statement that IRA men had been moved into Northern Ireland to defend Catholics that had been "terrorized by mobs backed by armed B-Specials."Gouldings statement went on to warn that British forces must not be "used to suppress the legitimate attempts of the people to defend themselves against the B-Specials and the sectarian Orange (Protestant) murder gangs.After public revulsion at the shooting death of William Best, a Catholic from Derry who was a British soldier, and the bombing of the Aldershot barracks, the Official IRA announced a ceasefire in 1972.