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Court hears of possible threat to researchers in BC case

Release of IRA history at issue

By Martine Powers

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 04, 2012

Researchers responsible for a high-profile oral history project will likely face violent retaliation if Boston College relinquishes confidential interviews with former members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an attorney argued in federal appeals court Wednesday. But lawyers for the US government contend that an international treaty on criminal investigations should trump any potential risks of releasing the interview recordings to British investigators, who first demanded the records last summer.

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