WORLD IN BRIEF : NORTHERN IRELAND : Leak of IRA Data to Protestants Revealed
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A police investigation into security leaks in Northern Ireland reported that security forces had passed information on Irish Republican Army suspects to Protestant paramilitary groups. John Stevens, the deputy chief constable of Cambridgeshire, England, who conducted the probe, said a few members of the locally recruited, part-time Ulster Defense Regiment channeled the information.
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