Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams US Prosecutors Seek Access To IRA Tapes -- The Telegraph
Secret tapes of former IRA members that could implicate Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, in dozens of murders in the 1970s have been demanded by American prosecutors acting on behalf of the British authorities.
A subpoena has been received by Boston College for the tapes of interviews with Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price, both one-time senior IRA figures, carried out by researchers for an oral history project.
Hughes, a convicted IRA man who was once arrested with Mr Adams, died in 2008. A book “Voices from the Grave” by Ed Moloney, based on the interviews, quoted him as identifying Mr Adams, who has always denied ever being a member of the IRA, was commander of the IRA’s Belfast Brigade in 1972.
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My Comment: The IRA no longer have the pull they once had in Washington. As a result, US officials now feel they have free reign to go after IRA actions that broke U.S. laws. This is a part of IRA history that present living Irish leaders do not want exposed .... but my prediction is that it will be exposed, and many a reputation of former IRA commanders and present Sinn Fein leaders will be damaged in the court of international public opinion.
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