Alan Black, the only survivor of Kingsmill, believes that IRA members involved in the massacre were double agents working for the British state.[46] He believes there was a "cover up" and that British security forces knew the massacre was going to happen but allowed it to. Karen Armstrong, sister of victim John McConville, said "A lot of people were being protected back then and they still are".[47] It has been suggested that the gunman with the English accent could have been British Intelligence officer Robert Nairac.[48] John Weir, a former RUC officer and member of the "Glenanne gang", claims he discovered that British Intelligence, through Nairac, was "playing republican and loyalist paramilitaries off against each other".[49]
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