The Irish News
Allison Morris
Gerry Adams has claimed that dissident republican groups are heavily infiltrated and being controlled to a degree by security agencies.
Speaking following a week of attacks across Northern Ireland, the Sinn Fein leader, pictured, said that recent upsurges in paramilitary violence have always coincided with progressive political developments.
"There are still people within these (British security) services for whom the war isn't over.
"I think it's about destabilising this entire process, they don't want to see a united Ireland and they can't come to terms with the people they saw as the enemy. Martin McGuinness in the offices of OFMDFM, Gerry Kelly being there, Conor Murphy and so on.
"You look again at the last time there was a recent upsurge, at the time of the Hillsborough talks.
"It's clear the people involved in this, leaving aside the young people who are being exploited, are more anti-Sinn Fein than anything else.
"They don't have a strategy and they don't have anyone prepared to articulate it
"When the IRA was active the media, when there was an incident, were coming after me or someone else to comment on it," Mr Adams told the BBC.
"Republican Sinn Fein is there, let's hear them defending the position, 32 County Sovereignty Movement is there let's, hear them defending the position, eirigi is there let's hear their position."
The West Belfast MP also revealed that Gerry Kelly would be leading a Sinn Fein delegation in future talks with the 32 CSM, a group that has in the past been linked to the Real IRA.
"I've written to the groups who are politically aligned with some of these groups and asked to meet with them," he said.
"Only one, the 32CSM, have written back and said they would be prepared to meet and Gerry Kelly will head up a delegation after the summer to do that meeting," he said.
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