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An American Spy in Northern Ireland

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May 18, 2024

May 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment

The wild, true story of a Chicago trucker-turned-spy who infiltrated the Real IRADid you hear the FBI paid to lease a pub on the Irish side of the Northern Ireland border for its amateur spy, trucker Dave Rupert, to make inroads with IRA supporters? The FBI is the United States’ domestic intelligence agency – not the CIA – working with Britain’s domestic intelligence agency – … [Read more...] about An American Spy in Northern Ireland

Real IRA Informer in
Protective Custody

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2001

June 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

A former leading figure in the Irish American dissident republican community is in protective custody after it was revealed that he had been working as a double agent for years. According to Irish and British news accounts, David Rupert, 49, a trucker from Illinois, infiltrated the Real IRA, the republican splinter group opposed to the Good Friday Agreement, gaining access to … [Read more...] about Real IRA Informer in
Protective Custody

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