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How The Great Train Robbery Worked

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The Ulster Man

The last great mystery of this thing from the 60s. Was just unraveled like two days ago. And I didn't even know it at the time, but the code name was Ulster Man. It was always believed to be someone on the inside of the train and post industry to give him information. He was named by Gordon Goody as Patrick McKenna. Because he's kept this guy's identity secret. There were two other people who knew they both died before Goody.Patrick McKenna died years back. But there was just this one man who swore he would take the secret to his grave and he named them. That is a really weird then that the banks would trust their money that were

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