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IRA informer unreliable, claims former MI5 officer

DISGRACED former MI5 officer David Shayler claimed yesterday that he was told an IRA informer who alleged Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness told him he fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday was a “bullshitter”.

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Shayler: IRA informer not reliable

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M15 officer 'not aware informer's account was nonsense'

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'Reliable informer' said IRA fired first, inquiry told

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Saville: Army agent will be screened

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McGuinness: I want to uncover Bloody Sunday massacre
'Brutalised 'claims of McGuinness's former brother-in-law

A one-time brother-in-law of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, who was jailed in America for attempting to import a missile to Ireland, claimed at the new Inquiry into Bloody Sunday he had been ‘‘brutalised’’ by events that day 29 years ago.

Wed, 04 Apr, 2001

Sein Fein says Shayler has cleared McGuinness

Sein Fein says doubts cast by a former MI5 officer on claims that Martin McGuinness fired a shot before the Bloody Sunday massacre prove that the allegations are bogus.

Sun, 14 Jan, 2001

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