Some top NIO officials didn't want to speak to PUP and UDP a

Senior NIO officials were split on whether the Government should break off contact with the political representatives of loyalist paramilitaries at a point where loyalist murders were dramatically increasing in the early 1990s, a previously secret document has revealed.

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