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U.S. and U.K. Entangled in Legal Battle to Release Former IRA Militants’ Stories

Boston University acted as a safeguard for the oral histories of former Northern Irish militants. Participants were promised their stories would remain private until their deaths. But new clues in an unsolved murder in Ireland triggered the U.S. Department of Justice to subpoena the tapes.

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