The journalist John Ware has truly (see next chapter) said that ‘good advanced intelligence can do more to save a life than all the 20, 000 soldiers and armed police on the streets in the province today’. But Ware also points out that: vital though this undercover war is, it has become a very Dirty War. There have been too many unexplained killings, too many examples of collusion between Loyalist paramilitaries and rogue members of the security forces, too many stories of unjustifiable pressure applied on young men and women to become ‘informers’ against the paramilitaries – for which the
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