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Charles Haughey used British-supplied bugs to spy on opponents

category national | crime and justice | other press author Friday October 16, 2009 05:00author by Citizen X - ¿?author email citizenx at hush dot com Report this post to the editors

Courtesy of intelnews.org:
http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/01-273/

Charles Haughey, Ireland’s Taoiseach (head of government) in the late 1970s, and on two instances in the 1980s, used audio surveillance devices supplied by a British security officer to spy on his domestic political opponents.


Of course, the guy making the allegation is hawking a book...

From the Guardian:

Charles Haughey 'used RUC bugs to spy on political opponents'
New book says future taoiseach boasted in 1970s that the gadgets 'changed the course of Irish political history'

Related Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/11/charles-haughey-ruc-spying-claims