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273:. Kelly, at that stage, was already the subject of several security reports to the Secretary of the Department of Justice, Peter Berry, from the Special Branch, implicating Kelly with subversives and with promises of money and of arms." Kelly never objected to such versions of the events of 1969.
269:, there were meetings with leading members of the IRA, when they were promised money and arms. The critical encounter took place in Bailieborough , County Cavan, on Saturday, 4 October 1969. It had been arranged by Captain James Kelly, an army intelligence officer, and
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214:, and was supposedly an Officer Commanding, or General, of the United Irishmen in the East Cavan/South Monaghan area. James Kelly joined the Irish Army in 1949. By 1960 he had been promoted to captain and appointed to the intelligence section at army headquarters.
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