SECRET DIPLOMAT’S KIDNAP FILES

William Craig

FOREIGN AND Commonwealth Office (FCO) files have just been released which shed some light on the IRA kidnapping of Germany’s Consul in Belfast, Thomas Niedermayer, in December 1973. Secretly, the Provos demanded the release of Marian and Dolours Price from prison in England for his return. Publicly, no group admitted responsibility. Niedermayer’s body was not… Read more »

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