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Tue 12 Dec 2008Britain rejected secret IRA peace talks offer, 1978 archives reveal
THE PROVISIONAL IRA sent a message to the British government in 1978 that it was willing to enter talks on ending its campaign, according to a sensitive document released at the UK National Archives in London.
Files from the office of British prime minister James Callaghan describe an IRA message, "to the effect that it was time to talk and end the present violence".
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