Some of the darkest secrets of the IRA and loyalist paramilitary killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland are set to be revealed in the coming years as direct participants' accounts, under lock and key in the US, are released.
The accounts were given to academic researchers from the prestigious Boston College on strict condition that they could only be released with the express permission of the ex-terrorists or in the event of their deaths.
Britain offered to pay Colonel Muammar Gaddafi £14m in return for Libya ending its military support for the IRA, secret papers seen by The Independent have revealed.
The deal, worth £500m today, was part of a package of compensation measures to appease the Libyan leader and help open up trade with the North African state during the late 1970s.
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