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aul 'Chico' Hamilton (left) and Jim McCarthy (above) are tw

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams's most trusted escorts. Both


were jailed for terrorist offences in the 1970s, and it was th
two who announced their IRA status before taking Martin
McGartland to a housing estate to await the Provo executio
Yet they are also proud to display their legal Sinn Fein iden

from page *cveu not socialise together. McGartland would know Fein, its political voice. Low-grade Sinn Fein
that they were gathering for a meeting only when members, he says, were not involved in military
in 1989 to infiltrate a woman came knocking on his door with a matters and were distrusted by the IRA for being
message to go to a safe house. Singing rebel songs vulnerable to infiltration by the security services
was seen as childish, and attending republican "But the leaders of the two organisations were
the same. There is no difference ber.veen the
"I s::.: •;:-.:-.--re:~e ir.d ::: friend/- •v::h :.r. and Sinn Fein."

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