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Tricking Terrorists: The Four Square Laundry
Bombs rocked Belfast in the 1970s. They were planted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a terrorist group fighting to make Northern Ireland independent from British rule. Yet there were IRA sympathizers in Belfast; some hid militants in their homes. How could the British Army find those terrorist hideouts?
IRA bombmakers used an explosive material that left traces on clothing -- until the clothes were washed. So British undercover agents created the Four Square Laundry, collecting dirty washing from IRA neighborhoods to literally sniff out suspects. |