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CBS interview with Gerry Adams accuser sought by Northern Ireland police

British authorities launch new effort in U.S. to prove Adams was in IRA

PATRICK COUNIHAN,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Monday, October 8, 2012, 7:06 AM

Updated Monday, October 8, 2012, 9:09 AM

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Police in Northern Ireland want to seize interview material from CBS News in New York relating to claims that Gerry Adams was an IRA leader as calls are made for his accuser Old Bailey bomber Dolours Price to be arrested.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) now want to seize material and interview notes from the Sunday Telegraph and the CBS network after recent claims by Price the Guardian newspaper is reporting.

Convicted bomber Price has again claimed that Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams was the IRA leader who ordered her to drive Jean McConville, a suspected informer, across the border to her murder by the Provisionals, in December 1972.

Adams defenders have pointed out that Price, former wife of actor Stephen Rea, has major mental problems and has been arrested on several occasions for drunkenness and has allegedly made suicide attempts.

The Guardian is reporting that the PSNI is to seek to obtain notes and video footage from the Sunday Telegraph paper and the New York based CBS television station in relation to the allegations made by Price.

In a recent interview she claimed that Adams was in charge of a specialist IRA unit that ‘disappeared’ and killed mother of 10 Jean McConville.

The PSNI has already gone legal in America in a bid to force the US Supreme Court to order Boston College to hand over tapes from a series of interviews led by Irish journalist Ed Moloney.

The tapes include testimony from Price about her time in the IRA.

Moloney has claimed that the PSNI’s latest move proves police in Northern Ireland are now ‘laying siege’ to journalism.

The director of the Belfast Project for Boston College told the Guardian that he sincerely hoped both CBS and the Sunday Telegraph would resist police attempts to subpoena their material.

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audreybolton | Oct 16, 2012, 04:14 PM EDT

sean: Tut Tut Tut. You;re still an eejit.

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audreybolton | Oct 16, 2012, 04:12 PM EDT

sean: Dad was a Colonel when he retired. Tut tut tut. He still thinks you're an eejit.

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seanomelb | Oct 11, 2012, 05:26 PM EDT

Good on ya daddy your little girl is proud of you. She just gifted you a rank of colonel because she was ashamed of your rank as major.end of discussion. Hey duggie maybe he was Chief of staff who cares.

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Gordan Duggan | Oct 11, 2012, 04:45 PM EDT

Seanonelb: You seem to know so much about military rankings, what was Admams' rank in the IRA? Were you and your friends in it too?

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audreybolton | Oct 11, 2012, 04:39 PM EDT

Sean, BTW dad was a Colonel when he retired. End of discussion.

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seanomelb | Oct 10, 2012, 06:15 PM EDT

Tell me audreybolton to quote you the "army in the dark ages" was a slight on the quality of the armed forces at a certain time in its development. daddy,s little girl needs succour and justification him and your squaddie's. Daddy can think what he likes little girl who cares. The fact he was a major means little. A rank given to retiring captains just prior to their retirement so they can milk the retirement fund.

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audreybolton | Oct 10, 2012, 12:57 PM EDT

sean in melbourne: You're gas. You obviously need a pair of glasses as you read my post wrong if you think I was denigrating the army in which I serve ( or where you diliberatly being insulting. My father who was an Army Major in the Sixties thinks you're an eejit! He's right.

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Gordan Duggan | Oct 10, 2012, 12:41 PM EDT

Seano: What part of Irish military did you serve in? The naval service?

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seamus60 | Oct 10, 2012, 09:57 AM EDT

Ireland north. There you go. Jepordise the peace process, damage the peace process, collaspse the peace process. LOL HOW ?

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IrelandNorth | Oct 10, 2012, 08:10 AM EDT

Uniformed band members of the British Army's (BAs) Irish Guards (a non-royal regiment!) performed in aid of the Jack & Jill Foundation children's charity recently at the K Club in Straffan, Co Kildare (attended by current Irish Army Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Sean McCann). They concluded with a rousing rendition of the Irish National Anthem - Amhrann na bhFiann/Soldier's Song. Both Irish and British militaries are currently restructuring under the auspices of EuroMil and NATO, with BA 'Irish' Regiments being repatriated to the north. In an age when the Orange Order re-embrace the St Patrick's Cross flag with a superimposed raised crown-over-harp motif, a reunited Ireland within the Commonwealth of Nations seems an amicable constitutional compromise formation between former ideological adversaries on the Island of Ireland. Against such a reconciliatory backdrop, it's difficult to understand how possible personal vendettas of retired RUC officers rehired by the PSNI could be allowed jeopardise the hard one peace process won with the active assistance of Citizen Adams.

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DaithiSuibhne | Oct 09, 2012, 07:42 PM EDT

Ah Gerry me boyo looks like the headhunters are out for blood again.Look I tried to let you know before the people you were getting in bed with only wanted to cut off your willy. As I see it Ger you should have kept quiet when you were speaking about the past. From now on you'd better be looking over your shoulder Mr. First Minister, oh thats right you gave that job up so you could retire on your stipend from the Queen. Gerry I once admired you because I thought you were really true to your convictions about a United Ireland, but now I can see your true colors,it's all about you isn't it , just another gombeem man. Gerry your the bane of the Irish race.

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seamus60 | Oct 09, 2012, 07:23 PM EDT

My apoligies folks. That last post should have read Isreali jews.

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seanomelb | Oct 09, 2012, 07:03 PM EDT

The sixties Audrey!! denigrating the history of the military in which you serve is ignorant and ill conceived just like your take on political parties. Go have a good laugh in your insular bivouac.

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seanomelb | Oct 09, 2012, 06:59 PM EDT

In the sixties Audrey!! denigrating the history of the military you serve in is typical of your type. Ignorant and ill conceived.

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RedBranch | Oct 09, 2012, 04:05 PM EDT

Insightful as always Seamus.

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