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Article: IRA hawk or MI6 superspy? Sensationalclaims that Martin McGuinness is a spy have grabbed the headlines. Northern Ireland's leading security expert Brian Rowan gives his assessment
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- May 29, 2006
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He is the public face of Sinn Fein in the peace process, but that
is only part of his story. The private Martin McGuinness - the Martin
McGuinness of Northern Ireland's war - is a man often portrayed as
the "hawk" of the IRA leadership. But was he also a British spy? That
is what a number of Sunday newspapers reported and hinted at
yesterday. If it is true, if he was an agent, then it was concealed
from some of those who have sat and who sit in the most senior
policing, security and political offices in Northern Ireland. And, if
it is true, then in the words of one source, "This would be a bigger
scandal for the British Government than the IRA." Indeed, it would be
such a scandal, that the ...