New documents claim proof of Gerry Adams involvement as a senior IRA member
A secret document unearthed by the widow of a former RUC officer shows details of Gerry Adams’ involvement in the IRA in the middle of the 1990s. Dr Susan Phoenix, the widow of Ian Phoenix, who was a counter-terrorism specialist for the RUC, discovered the documents after her husband’s death in a helicopter accident in 1994.
The documents show that Adams was a senior member of the IRA, along with leading politicians such as Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly. Adams and McGuinness are named in the documents as joint deputy chief of staff, while McGuinness is also named as the IRA’s Northern Command.
The document, which was revealed by the Sunday Independent, claims that many of Adams’ closest colleagues in Sinn Féin were leading members of the IRA too. Senior security sources in the Republic of Ireland have stated that the chart matches up to the one which Irish intelligence forces gathered in the early 1990s.
Adams has always claimed that he was not a senior member of the IRA, and these revelations are sure to hamper his and his party’s chances in the upcoming General Election.
