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At some point in the late 1970s, he was admitted to the Mater Hospital for a short stay. Although he was watched by bodyguards, the Provisional Ireland Republican Army decided to assassinate him, in what they termed "Operation Bunter". However, this was prevented by the police, acting on information received from an informant.
In 1983, Joseph Bennett, a UVF commander, became an informant for the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).
On 14 January 1993, Graham was hit by rifle shots, fired through the window of his home. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility.
The attack led to a number of other leading loyalists turning their homes into miniature fortresses for fear that they too would be targeted. Investigative journalist and author Martin Dillon uses the pseudonym "Mr F." to refer to a "military commander" in the UVF, who he states was "known as Bunter".
Raymond McCord claimed, in a statement to the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, that Graham had acted as an "agent of the state".
In 2000, amid a violent UDA-UVF feud, Graham was involved in talking to hardliners in the UVF and dissuading them from escalating the conflict. In 2012, Graham went on a trip with other veteran loyalists and republicans to the Middle East to study the Arab-Israeli conflict and the lessons it might provide for Northern Ireland.
