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Article: NorthWest: Inquiry told security service is 'biased'
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- May 27, 2002
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THE security service was today accused at the Saville Inquiry of
being a biased and unreliable source of information by a lawyer
acting on behalf of the families of the Bloody Sunday dead.
Lawyers acting for the security service today asked the inquiry to
allow three of its former and serving officers to give evidence in
secret.
The security service wants the measure to be adopted to protect
the identity of one of its agents who is code-named Infliction.
Infliction has alleged that the Education Minister, Martin
McGuinness, told him he fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday.
The inquiry has ruled that Infliction himself does not have to