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Speaking after Sir Keir's comments at PMQs, his official spokesman said he could not guarantee that compensation payments to Mr Adams or other former Troubles internees would be prevented.

But one of the internees decided to start a Girl Guide group, which would meet once a week in a corner of the exercise yard.

He was transferred from an Immigration and Naturalization Service facility in Montana to the center for enemy alien internees in Louisiana.

Detained as they had been, the internees, Goodman found, had scarcely been enjoying the benefits of a “free society.”

"There is an onus on the British government to identify and inform other internees whose internment may also have been unlawful," he said.