All news on the topic: IRA

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Operation Midas in Ukraine: tapes reveal Tymur Mindich paying activists, influencing defense policy, and staying outside public disclosures
ormer Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Stanislav Bronevytsky has released new fragments of the so-called “Mindich tapes”
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Scotland sees 193 terrorism charges since 2000, including loyalist, republican, and neo-Nazi groups
A freedom of information response revealed there have been 193 charges in Scotland under the Terrorism Act 2000.
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Report finds MI5 shielded IRA double agent Stakeknife, allowing murders and obstructing investigation
A long-awaited nine-year investigation has concluded that MI5 allowed a top agent inside the IRA to commit murders and later hindered efforts to investigate his crimes.
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Dame Stella Rimington, the first female director of MI5, has died at age 90
Dame Stella Rimington, who advanced from being a part-time typist in MI5 to becoming the spy agency’s first female director general, has died at the age of 90.
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High Court rules that SAS soldiers’ use of lethal force in the killing of four IRA men was unjustified
Four Provisional IRA members - Kevin Barry O’Donnell, 21, Sean O’Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19, and Daniel Vincent, 20 - were shot and killed on 16 February 1992 at St Patrick’s Church in Clonoe, Co Tyrone.
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Grave exhumed near the Northern Ireland border in search for IRA ’disappeared’
Search for Joe Lynskey, who was murdered and secretly buried by IRA in 1972, takes place in County Monaghan
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Inquiry chief alarmed by MI5’s posthumous discovery of Stakeknife files
Release of intelligence year after death ‘casts doubt’ on security service’s previous claims about British spy in IRA accused of murders