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- Belfast Telegraph
Special Branch agent: ‘I prevented Provos pulling off Army massacre on par with Narrow Water'
Martin McGartland tells podcast of IRA plot to blow up three trucks loaded with soldiers coming off Larne ferry
Martin McGartland has claimed that if he had not prevented an IRA bomb attack on an Army convoy coming off the Larne ferry, it would have been a massacre on the scale of the Narrow Water atrocity.
The Belfast man is one of the most high-profile agents in the history of the Troubles. A 2008 movie was made of his memoir Fifty Dead Men Walking, starring Jim Sturgess as McGartland and Ben Kingsley as his handler.
