Chris Moore

That was probably very naive in the way in which I reported that.

But I think that was the beginning of the kind of trust that came with the job.

If you could meet sources and keep your mouth shut, that was a good sign from their point of view.

And so that's why I think I was accepted more readily on the Shankill Award.

Well, Jim Craig was a leading figure in the UDA.

He was also associated very closely with the military wing of the UDA, if I can put it that way, the UFF.

And he was...

the kind of person who could be charismatic and very likeable.

But on the other hand, he had this dark side and he could become very threatening.

And there was good reason to feel threatened by him because he had a history of

of organising his men in such a way that they would tolerate his violence, if only to be disciplined about something they'd done to offend him.

My experience with Jim Craig began when I worked in the newsletter paper and I patrolled the length and breadth of the Shankill Road

meeting loyalists from the UFF through the UDA and also the UVF.

And Craig and one of the leaders of the UDA, a man called Tommy Little, quite often met me in bars on the Shankill Road.

They would bring me up to speed with various events that were happening

I don't have those notebooks any longer.

I think they have got lost in a house move.

But it was in the 70s.

On occasions, I would meet them separately.

I mean, coming little, I would meet him in his house, not far from the Tennant Street RUC station.