NZPA-Reuter Belfast A Belfast Judge wearing a bullet-proof vest yesterday found 21 men guilty of membership of the outlawed Irish Republican Army on the evidence of an I.R.A. informer. The 21 are among 33 men and five women facing charges in Northern Ireland's longest guerrilla trial. The trial, which has last 117, days, was seen as the first big test of the controversial policy of using informers — dubbed as “super-grasses” by the British news media.
A convicted I.RA. guerrilla, Christopher Black, aged 29, turned informer in exchange for his free-
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