From Relatives for Justice:

'It was subsequently reported in London's Private Eye that Nelson's role in traveling to South Africa and purchasing the weapons for loyalists had been approved by a member of the British Cabinet at the time.'

'Loyalists were re-armed in late 1987 when MI5's Force Research Unit (FRU) dispatched their agent Brian Nelson with the proceeds of a Northern Bank robbery in Portadown to South Africa to purchase a shipment of weapons that had initially been destined for the PLO. The ship being previously intercepted by the South African apartheid regime at the request of the Israeli government.

'It was subsequently reported in London's Private Eye that Nelson's role in traveling to South Africa and purchasing the weapons for loyalists had been approved by a member of the British Cabinet at the time.

'As a direct consequence of the importation of these weapons loyalists embarked on an unprecedented period of sectarian and political assassinations in which numerous others aspects of official collusion, apart from providing weapons, is well evidenced and documented. Loyalists are responsible for more deaths from this period onwards than any other participant to the conflict.