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About Peter Cleary
- Peter Joseph Cleary (18 September 1950 – 15 April 1976) was an Irish republican and a leading member of the 1st Battalion of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)'s South Armagh Brigade.
- He held the rank of Staff Officer and served as the unit's treasurer.
- He was implicated by journalist and author Joe Tiernan in the killing of Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) corporal and alleged Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member Robert McConnell.
- Ten days after McConnell's killing, Cleary was shot dead by the Special Air Service (SAS) after being arrested at the home of his girlfriend outside Forkhill.
- He was widely believed to have been the mastermind behind the Kingsmill massacre, when ten Ulster Protestant workers were taken from their work van and shot dead by the roadside.
- He was the first person in Northern Ireland to be killed by the SAS, following the admission of their deployment there in January 1976.
- According to the SAS, he was shot after attempting to take the rifle from the officer who was guarding him in a bid to escape.
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