Revealed: How Scots Loyalists Sent Gelignite to Paramilitaries Secret Memo Says Explosives Were Shipped in Small Boats

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LOYALISTS in Scotland went from sending food parcels to shipping gelignite to paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, according to confidential Irish government papers.

During the first half of the 1970s, the government of the Irish Republic spied on Orange Lodges and loyalist groups in Scotland to assess their involvement in terrorist activities in Northern Ireland.

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Revealed: How Scots Loyalists Sent Gelignite to Paramilitaries Secret Memo Says Explosives Were Shipped in Small Boats

According to an Irish government memo, the Orange Order, which had kept the UDA and UVF at arm's length, began to revise its attitude to loyalist paramilitari...

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