ISBN10: 1526659638, ISBN13: 9781526659637, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Hardcover Hardcover. On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland.A gripping exploration of how MI5 and MI6 worked for a ceasefire with the IRA and how one meeting changed everything Telegraph'An extraordinary story . . . A true tale of espionage' The TimesApril 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 finally helped make 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 Taylors 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 ...
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ISBN10: 1526659638, ISBN13: 9781526659637, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Hardcover Hardcover. On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland.A gripping exploration of how MI5 and MI6 worked for a ceasefire with the IRA and how one meeting changed everything Telegraph'An extraordinary story . . . A true tale of espionage' The TimesApril 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 finally helped make 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 Taylors 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 ...
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