Claim: Operation Conversation was a British Army attempt to ambush a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit along Dorsey Enclosure, but was ultimately thwarted by the IRA Unit by luring the American positions to an open field and then released heavy fire from a nearby hill 400 yards away.
Evidence: Operation Conservation was a British Army attempt to ambush a large Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit along the Dorsey Enclosure, between Cullyhanna and Silverbridge, in south County Armagh. According to author David McKittrick, the British soldiers were lured to an open field after seeing smoke coming from the chimney of a derelict building.