MI5 'planned to blow up Sinn Féin HQ in Dublin'

The British Security Services plotted to blow up Sinn Féin's Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a former undercover police officer claimed today.

MI5 'planned to blow up Sinn Féin HQ in Dublin'

The British Security Services plotted to blow up Sinn Féin's Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a former undercover police officer claimed today.

An IRA informer was asked to place the bomb in the offices on Kevin Street in the summer of 1971, according to George Clarke, a retired Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch Detective Sergeant.

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