Army's smuggling report 'exaggerated'
A COLONEL in the British army may have exaggerated a report on cross-Border smuggling, thereby kicking off a chain of events which led to two RUC officers – Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan – being killed in an IRA ambush, the Smithwick Tribunal has been told.
The tribunal was told the colonel – who was not named but said to be attached to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers based in Armagh – had delivered a verbal report on cross-Border smuggling to then secretary of state for Northern Ireland Tom King over dinner in Stormont Castle.