Daniel McCann

And information had been received about those three people in detail, who they were, what they were going to do, and in the end, when they were going to do it, because there was initially a big question mark over the last of those things.

Those three people were all known to be frontline IRA operatives, Sean Savage, Daniel McCann, and Mairead Farrell.

And were they followed all the way from Northern Ireland to Gibraltar? What was the sort of in- s- surveillance picture and, and when did you, as the SAS, get involved?

We knew, we'd been briefed that there had been and, and was surveillance, not all the time, but part of the time in Spain, uh, ag- against these, uh, three members of, w- who made up the Active Service Unit for the IRA.