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That's amazing, and seems incredulous that all of the footage was sent across to London for developing.
You can only guess what posessed the IRA to agree to it, it seems a crazy risk compared to the potential reward.
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
The writer seems amazed that they should have taken such a security risk as to make this film. But that is to forget these people were not trained, hardened operatives.
They were very young - in their teens and early twenties - driven by an idealism and a desire to get their (as they saw it) righteous message out to sympathisers in the USA. To an extent, still naive, even. The Provisional IRA, as an independent organisation, was less than three years old.
The indestructibility of youth and the self-belief of revolutionaries. Hardly surprising they were compromised, if not on some level actually lured into exposing themselves.
I don't suppose the BBC would broadcast the film itself (no doubt the security services wouldn't want that), but the programme does appear to have extracts from it.
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