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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Weapons & equipment > General
In May of 1970, two government ministers were dismissed from
Cabinet for allegedly purchasing guns for the IRA. The Taoiseach
Jack Lynch disavowed any knowledge of the plot. Few believed him.
Charles Haughey, Minister for Finance, a captain in Irish military
intelligence along with two others were put on trial. All were
acquitted. Haughey refused to talk about the crisis for the rest of
his life. Fianna Fail endured decades of splits, turmoil and
leadership heaves. Until now, no one has revealed the pivotal role
of an IRA informer in the affair. The part he played became the
best-kept State secret of the last half-century. The book also
reveals a dirty tricks campaign by Britain's Foreign Office to
conceal the ancillary role of a British agent called Capt.
Markham-Randall in the murder of Garda Richard Fallon on the eve of
the eruption of the Arms Crisis.
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