The British Ministry of Defence and the intelligence agency MI5 are demanding that the Stevens inquiry return certain secret documents to them before the opening of four separate murder investigations that could expose the level of collusion between government agencies, especially the MOD and MI5, and "loyalist" paramilitary groups. Previous suits over documents have led to them being returned and then destroyed. Sources inside the Stevens inquiry have indicated that workers are copying documents to protect against the eventuality that they may have to be returned. Said one source:
"There are calls from certain agencies for their documents to be returned...In some cases we have handed them back and they have been shredded. The pressure on us is growing and it has got to the stage where we have told them what part of the word 'no' don't you understand?"
There have already been nearly 100 prosecutions over such collusion as a result of Lord Stevens's previous investigation which opened in 1989.
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