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(BBC Newsline 6.30 - 10/11/2008 / Reporter: Eimear Flanagan) The hidden history of a World War II spy post is revealed...
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It's been described as Northern Ireland's best kept secret of World War Two. It helped to sink Hitler's most famous battleship The Bismarck and flushed out Nazi spies. During the Cold War it gathered covert intelligence on the Soviet Union. But today, it's become a not-so-secret hide out for vandals and teenage drinkers.

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