SF member expelled as securocrats role in collapsing Executive exposed - Adams
Sinn Féin has revealed that a member of the party in Belfast, Denis
Donaldson, was expelled last night after it was uncovered that he had been
working as a British agent. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams will hold a
press conference today at 4pm (Friday 16th) in the Joyce Room in
the Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin.
Speaking
in Dublin this morning Mr. Adams said:
“The
nature of British rule in Ireland is that for a very long time it has been
driven by a security agenda, with policy dictated by British Intelligence,
state police and military agencies. The Good Friday Agreement is, as
much as anything else, about ending that.
“The
collapse of the power sharing government was blamed on allegations of a
Sinn Fein spy ring at Stormont.
“The
fact is that there was no Sinn Féin spy ring at Stormont.
The
fact is that this was a carefully constructed lie created by the Special
Branch in order to cause maximum political impact.
The
fact is that the collapse of the political institutions was a direct result
of the actions of some of those who run the intelligence and policing system
of the British.
The fact is that the key
person at the centre of those events was a Sinn Féin member who was a
British agent.
“This
is entirely the responsibility of the British government.
“What
is clear is that there are those within the PSNI and the intelligence
agencies who are a law onto themselves, who use informers, spies and
agents and who are operating to their own agenda with no accountability.
They are manipulating the situation for their own narrow ends. They
have sought to undermine Sinn Féin and are working against the
implementation of the Good Friday Agreement which is the publicly stated
policy of the British and Irish governments. The British Prime Minister and
the Taoiseach have to wake up to this reality.
“Sinn
Féin has been very conscious of the negative role being played by elements
within the British system and we have raised these matters consistently with
both governments. If Britain’s war is over then the British Prime
Minister needs to come to terms with the fact that he has to end the
activities of the securocrats. This entire episode underlines the need
for an end to political policing. That, and defending the Good Friday Agreement
remains the focus of Sinn Féin.” ENDS