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Gerry Adams could be linked to IRA killing by secret tapes

Gerry Adams may be implicated in an IRA unit responsible for the killing of suspected informant Jean McConville on tapes that could be released by a US judge, it was reported.

The leader of Sinn Fein has been accused of setting up the unit that abducted Mrs McConville before she was shot in the back of the head in 1972.

Allegations against Mr Adams, who has repeatedly denied involvement with the IRA, were made by two people interviewed by researchers for an oral history project on the condition the tapes were not released before their deaths. The claims were not independently verified.

Collected by Dr Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA prisoner, the interviews were intended to be held securely in America after the project, which was sponsored by Boston College....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)