Martin McGuinness, the CIA, Mossad… and the 50-year disappearance of a ‘compromising’ film to feature in BBC documentary

An American academic who had worked for US intelligence was given unprecedented access by the IRA in 1972 – and brought along an Israeli Nazi-hunter whose son believes he may have been part of a conspiracy

Martin McGuinness was captured in the 1972 film showing his gun and bullets to young children

Sam McBride

An astonishing story involving the CIA, Mossad, and the disappearance of a compromising film for half a century raises fresh questions about why Martin McGuinness evaded a long jail term.

The scarcely-believable story is pieced together in painstaking detail by veteran BBC investigative journalist Darragh MacIntyre in a film to be broadcast tonight on BBC Two.