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On St Patrick’s Day 1978, a covert surveillance mission in rural Londonderry went catastrophically wrong. In episode five of SAS: The Shadow War, The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley meets ‘Blue’, a former 14 Intelligence Company operative speaking publicly about the night he and a fellow soldier were ambushed while watching a farm linked to wanted IRA man Francis Hughes. Shot three times, with one bullet tearing through his stomach, Blue was left bleeding heavily in the dark, his…