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Episode 174: How the Troubles hid a history of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and security forces

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Johnny Adair and the IRA Campaign

Adair's team, the sea company on the lower shankle took it to a new level and he had this skill to get the best of intelligence information. It came to him from all sorts of sources and his money increased. People well connected, people within unionism were making huge donations. So he could afford to plan things properly. Was he paying for information? He wouldn't even know all this information came in from sympathetic sources. All of these cases, there was an element of frustration by the members of the security forces who illegally passed the information to him. That they couldn't do what Adair was doing. Yeah, people who believed us, what he was doing was right

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