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did not think I would get any joy: The only thing he would say about Ewins was that he understood that he had gone back to England: he had not heard anything of him for many years. Conversation with Rev Martin Smyth, Ulster Unionist MP for South Belfast. November 10 1994. Smyth confirmed that he and Harold McCusker had informed the RUC that Graham was a target. They had been told by UDA paramilitaries in the Maze Prisoa that the IRA had approached them for information about Graham, saying that it was in everyone's interest to kift him. Smyth said that the RUC had refused to give Graham protection, claiming that he was mot a target. Smyth said he did not have any evidence of the intelligence services” involvement, but be did not rule it out. He said that Kennedy Lindsay had written a book, "The British Intelligence Services In Action”, which had looked at a case of the intelligence services attempting to kill a member of the UDR. He said Graham's uncle was a senior member of the RUC at the time of the murder - possibly connected with the RUC press office (he did not know whether this uncle was from the mother or the father’s side). He said that the law faculty at Queen’s University had for many years had a reputation for harbouring IRA sympathisers. He said that one lecturcr, AMMMEMNB (who arrived there in 1969, but who had left before the Graham murder), was well known for her IRA sympathics and had in fact had to leave the university because of them. He said that for many years students from the unionist tradition would simply not study law at Queen's University out of fears for their safety. Indeed. one student called @MEMMMMMMB had bad to go to England to finish his course because of threats he had received as a result of his involvement in unionist polities. He also mentioned a book by Avro Manhattan called ‘Religious Terror in Ireland’ (published in the early seventies) in which a lecturer at QU is named as an IRA sympathiscr (NOTE: the book names a Mr Dolley as a ‘lecturer, writer and expert on Irish history’. However the name is clearly a pseudonym and it is not clear where Mr Dolley is @ lecturer). Conversation with David Trimble. Ulster Unionist MP for Upper November 11 1994. David Trimble was 4 senior member of Queen's University Faculty of Law at the time of Edgar Graham's murder. Graham was a good friend. He knows that some people have suggested that the intelligence services were involved in Graham's murder but he feels the genesis of the assassination is more mundane: Graham, who was a persuasive and convincing speaker, appeared in a debate in the Students’ Union about 4

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