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Operation Chiffon - The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland (Hardcover)
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Operation Chiffon - The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland (Hardcover)
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On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor
tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon,
MI5's top-secret intelligence operation that finally helped bring
peace to Ireland. April 1998: the Good Friday Agreement is signed,
ending decades of violence and bloodshed in Northern Ireland. The
process of getting the IRA to end its so-called 'armed struggle'
was always the prerequisite of the search for peace. It was
Operation Chiffon that made it possible. Operation Chiffon takes us
inside the top-secret intelligence operation whose roots go back to
the bloodiest years of the conflict in the early 1970s, involving
officers from MI6 and, later in the 1990s, MI5. The remarkable
story, which has remained hidden for forty years, is now revealed
by legendary BBC journalist Peter Taylor with unique access to the
officers involved. Drawing on exclusive interviews and Taylor's
fifty years of covering the conflict, the book narrates in
first-hand detail how those involved risked their careers - and
their lives - to help secure the fragile peace that exists today.
Taylor vividly brings this covert operation to life and in the
process chronicles the history of Sinn Fein, rising from obscurity
in the early days of the Troubles to becoming the largest political
party in Ireland today. It is a story fraught with uncertainty and
danger that, as Brexit risks destabilising the peace that was
achieved in the Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago, is more
important to remember than ever.
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