In a statement last December, the NIO said nothing would be withheld from the inquiry.
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Among its members are Customs and Excise representatives, the police, the NIO, Home Office and the Inland Revenue.
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Although on Monday Mr McGuinness repeated Ms Ni Chuilin's criticism of the NIO, he didn't immediately volunteer those comments.
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said Thursday's meeting, which lasted about two hours, had been arranged some time ago.
Follow-up searches uncovered 20, 000 litres of illegal fuel, the NIO said.
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Gerry Adams has personally criticised Owen Paterson and there are strong rumours of tensions between Caral Ni Chuilin and the NIO behind the scenes of the recent Olympic Torch relay.
On 3 February, 1982 Stephen Leach, an NIO official, recorded a conversation with Captain Austin Ardill, the convenor of the Unionist Devolution Group (UDG), a UUP pressure group which supported the restoration of devolved institutions.
Sir Leonard had travelled north with the permission of the NIO to meet the cardinal and his Church of Ireland counterpart, Archbishop John Armstrong, in the wake of the bitter hunger strike of the previous year.
But in this case both the DUP and the NIO stayed silent - apparently unwilling to engage in a slanging match which might diminish the chances of an historic encounter between the deputy first minister and the Queen.
In a memo on the file, dated 12 February, 1981, C Devenport, an NIO official, noted that during Question Time at Westminster, Rev Ian Paisley had asked the Secretary of State, Humphrey Atkins to confirm or deny that the Army patrol detailed to observe Tynan Abbey on the fatal night was 'being wined and dined in a well-known republican house in the area'.
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