a house in Rosemary Street, in downtown Belfast, was proposed to both the IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries as a sort of HQ for terrorists where they could all meet (and be bugged) under the one roof. At first sight the idea appears ludicrous, but I suppose one must take it in conjunction with the fact that at the time everyone in Belfast appeared to be aware that the British secret service, MI6, was housed in Laneside, a large house overlooking Belfast Lough. The scheme progressed to a point whereby, despite the fact that sectarian assassination was rampant at the time, the four paramilitary
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