The Secret Army: the IRA propaganda film forgotten for almost 50 years

A new BBC documentary tells how in 1972 the Irish Republican Army (IRA) allowed an American TV crew to film the inner workings of “Europe’s deadliest guerrilla force”.

It’s “The Troubles meets a Tom Clancy novel”, wrote Ed Power in The Irish Times.

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