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Willie Carlin was born and raised in Derry. Joining the British Army in 1965, he was recruited by MI5 in 1974, and later the Force Research Unit, to infiltrate Sinn Féin. Over the next 11 years, he built up close contacts with Martin McGuinness and Mitchel McLaughlin, becoming one of Britain’s most valuable long-term agents in Northern Ireland. His cover was blown by a former handler in 1985, and he and his family were extracted to a new life with new identities. He continues to live outside Ireland to this day.