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who infiltrated G Division, suggests that much of their activity was unprofessional and dependent upon casually-recruited local informers plus conspicuous
English officers whose wartime experience in Cairo and elsewhere had little relevance to Dublin conditions.
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railway station. Ryan raided the offices of the newspaper on 15 September, and the staff were arrested. They were tried and sentenced to terms of penal servitude.
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inside the G division branch. There, he copied sensitive files for
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