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Provos: The IRA And Sinn Fein - Secret War

Concentrates on the 1980s and the relaunch of a campaign by the IRA after the death of the hunger strikers. Looks at the increase in heavy weaponry purchased and the funding and supply lines and the IRA\’s keeness to get hold of surface-to-air missiles to shoot down army helicopters. It also goes into the emergence of IRA informants and ”supergrasses” and the effect they had on operations.

English
  • Originally Aired October 7, 1997
  • Runtime 50 minutes
  • Network BBC One
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