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Sam McBride: Secret files suggest Robert Nairac was meeting with an informant before disappearance


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Captain Robert Nairac was meeting an informer when he was abducted and murdered, secret military documents indicate. Those files, discovered by the Belfast Telegraph’s Sam McBride, also show that the Ministery of Defence was desperate that that fact would not be revealed, so desperate that it would rather his killers walked free from court than answer questions about what he was up to. Robert Nairac was murdered and secretly buried by the IRA in 1977. Since his disappearance, he has become a mythical figure shrouded in secrecy and rumour. 

Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Sam McBride to reveal some of what he has found in London’s Kew archives. 

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