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Dave Rupert: The Chicago trucker recruited by the FBI to spy on IRA

December 15
35 mins

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Episode Description

Dave Rupert, a six and half foot tall, middle-aged trucker from Chicago, with no Irish links. Rupert was a tourist who enjoyed a pint and through a series of chance events became a trusted republican insider and then an agent working for the FBI. How did an American man with no background in republicanism end up living a double life as part of the Real IRA Army council, and why did its leader Mickey McKevitt believe him? 

CiarĂ¡n Dunbar is joined by Abdon Pallasch.


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