John Francis Green (18 December 1946[1]– 10 January 1975), was a leading member of the North Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

An Irish government agent, Sean O'Callaghan, states he met Green at an IRA training camp in County Kerry at the end of 1973.

When the farmer, an elderly republican sympathiser, went to tend a neighbour's cow, Ulster loyalist gunmen from the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade kicked down the front door and shot Green six times in the head at close range, killing him instantly.

It was claimed by Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Special Patrol Group (SPG) officer John Weir, that the UVF killers were Robin Jackson (who was also allegedly involved in the 1974 Dublin car bombings as well as a series of sectarian killings), Robert McConnell, and Harris Boyle.

[3] The men, including Weir, were all members of the Glenanne gang, which was made up of rogue elements of the RUC, Ulster Defence Regiment, and the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade.

The 1993 Yorkshire Television documentary The Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre states that Robin Jackson and his UVF comrades were controlled by Nairac, who was attached to 14th Intelligence Company.

[13] Years after the death of John Francis Green, journalist Peter Taylor conducted an interview with his brother, Leo, who had been a key figure in the 1980 hunger strike at the Maze Prison.

Green went on to add that the UVF's motives for killing his brother may not have been solely on account that John Francis was a prominent IRA member.

[16] Green's killing was one of 87 which the Pat Finucane Centre has linked to the Glenanne gang, a group comprising rogue elements of the RUC, UDR working alongside the UVF which carried out a series of sectarian attacks in the Mid-Ulster/South Armagh area in the 1970s.

[18] Both Robin Jackson[19] and Robert Nairac were allegedly behind that attack, while Harris Boyle was blown up after the bomb he and Wesley Somerville (another UVF and Glenanne gang member) had placed in the band's minibus had gone off prematurely.

[3] Martin Dillon, in his book The Dirty War, claims that Nairac was not involved in Green's killing, nor the Miami Showband attack.