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...Baader-Meinhof gang in West Germany. When members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army went on a hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison in the spring of 1981, for example, British intelligence agents noticed that senior KGB officials held a number of meetings with Provo leaders in Dublin. Says a top Western intelligence expert: "The Soviets back groups and people who are certifiably terrorist, but they do it with their fingers crossed and with their hands over their ears, if not their eyes. Backing a terrorist is a little like shooting craps, and the Soviets don't like...
...resignation. It is a tale of taps on journalists' phones, of a secret tape recording of a political discussion, apparent conspiracies and controversy involving high-ranking public figures. And then there is dogged investigative reporting and at least one "Deep Throat." Sound familiar? Well, yes, but this is Dublin 1983, not Washington 1973. The central character is former Prime Minister Charles Haughey; the scandal is Liffeygate, after the River Liffey that bisects Ireland's capital city...
Just as Watergate sprang from a bungled burglary in Washington, Liffeygate grew from something insignificant; an after-hours drinking session in a bar in Boyle, a country town 90 miles from Dublin. Last February, police raided the pub and took the names of the people they found drinking there after the legal closing hour of 11 p.m. Normally, summonses would have been issued and small fines imposed...
...that the police, on the orders of Haughey's Fianna Fail government, were tapping the telephones of journalists. Murtagh followed up the story and found that Doherty, in an effort to stem embarrassing reports about internal party squabbles, had placed bugs on the phones of two of Dublin's top political reporters. It was also discovered that Haughey's Deputy Prime Minister, Ray MacSharry, had borrowed a police recorder to tape a private conversation with a Fianna Fail dissident. His aim, it turned out, was not to carry out government business but to uncover an anti-Haughey...
...dislodged by assaults that would shift normally tenacious men." In part, Haughey is able to hold on because of some old-fashioned political patronage. Says one Irish reporter: "Charlie has people everywhere. When the chips are down, he is hard to beat." Perhaps, but at week's end Dublin bookmakers were offering odds on his possible successors...