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Our Dirty War: The British State and the IRA
Secret killer and super-spy: the Stakeknife inquiry leads Peter Taylor to revisit the brutal covert war between Britain and the IRA. Chilling tapes and victims reflect the horror.
Stakeknife was a super-spy, a secret agent working for both the British and the IRA. He walked a precarious tightrope in an undercover war where exposure meant death. Operation Kenova, the long-running investigation into Stakeknife and the so-called dirty war, which is now coming to a close, brings Peter Taylor back to Northern Ireland. He revisits the chilling IRA interrogation tapes he initially uncovered and talks again to grieving families devasted by the loss of their loved ones to the IRA’s brutal interrogators and killers.
Last on
Sun 10 Mar 202415:30
BBC News except UK & UK HD
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reporter | Peter Taylor |
| Producer | Richard Newman |
| Editor | Gwyneth Jones |
| Assistant Editor | Chris Thornton |