By the mid-1990s, the upper ranks of the IRA were infested with informers. The writing was on the wall.
John Hume's strategy of forcing them to the negotiating table by putting pressure on their ability to easily raise funds in the USA also bore fruit: their finances were well known to be a right mess by the middle 1990s. Actually this probably encouraged some senior members to turn informer: not (of course) part of Hume's plan in any sense, but it all added up and pushed in the same direction.
How exactly did Hume go about doing that?
