4 days ago
- Politics
- Belfast Telegraph
Governments feared names of IRA Army Council were to be published and lobbied to stop it
Senior NIO official implied in 2003 that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness were members of IRA Army Council
The British and Irish Governments were dismayed when they learnt that an 'independent' body they'd set up to monitor paramilitarism was considering publicly naming every member of the IRA Army Council.
The Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) was established by the two governments in 2004 in an attempt to persuade unionism to stick with the Good Friday Agreement despite the IRA's refusal to fully decommission years after the Good Friday Agreement.
