[4] Information that loyalist paramilitaries were regularly meeting at the farm appeared on British Intelligence Corps documents from late 1972.
[8][1] In an affidavit, John Weir affirmed that the farmhouse was used as a base for UVF operations that included the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.
[9] Weir also stated that on one occasion an RUC constable gave him two weapons to store at the Glenanne farm: He then offered me the two sub-machine guns because he knew about my connection to Loyalist paramilitaries.
[13] According to Sean McPhilemy, Mitchell's farm was also used to launch a car bomb attack outside the Step Inn Bar in Clontibret, County Monaghan.
[16] He was convicted for possession of weapons found on his land after an RUC raid in December 1978 and received a one-year suspended sentence.