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17/11/2005
Republicans warned of loyalist 'threat list'
The PSNI have warned hundreds of republicans that they may be under threat from loyalist paramilitaries.
The warning followed the loss of a list from an office in Castlereagh, which was used by the army in the high security complex.
While the investigation into how the document went missing is ongoing a number of soldiers have been moved to other duties.
It is understood that many of the republicans contacted by police are from the Short Strand area of Belfast.
Yesterday Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness said: "Last year a document containing the details of up to 400 people went missing from the Castlereagh security complex in East Belfast. In July 2004 it was leaked that an internal British Army probe into this was underway."
Mr McGuinness claimed that 28 members of the RIR were implicated in a "collusion conspiracy".
He said that the former Security Minister Ian Pearson and senior PSNI figures were "clearly trying to cover up the clear and irrefutable evidence of collusion between the RIR and loyalist paramilitaries". "Indeed there is a raft of comments by the British Security Minster Ian Pearson and senior British Army and security sources at that time which sought to do this," he claimed.
Mr McGuinness said that the British government, the British Army and the PSNI had "consciously allowed" over 400 people and their families "to live under threat without informing them of this risk for over 16 months in order to sustain the cover up".
A police spokesperson confirmed that a document believed to be linked to an internal security breach in July 2004 had been recovered and that a number of people had been warned about their personal security.
(SP)
The warning followed the loss of a list from an office in Castlereagh, which was used by the army in the high security complex.
While the investigation into how the document went missing is ongoing a number of soldiers have been moved to other duties.
It is understood that many of the republicans contacted by police are from the Short Strand area of Belfast.
Yesterday Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness said: "Last year a document containing the details of up to 400 people went missing from the Castlereagh security complex in East Belfast. In July 2004 it was leaked that an internal British Army probe into this was underway."
Mr McGuinness claimed that 28 members of the RIR were implicated in a "collusion conspiracy".
He said that the former Security Minister Ian Pearson and senior PSNI figures were "clearly trying to cover up the clear and irrefutable evidence of collusion between the RIR and loyalist paramilitaries". "Indeed there is a raft of comments by the British Security Minster Ian Pearson and senior British Army and security sources at that time which sought to do this," he claimed.
Mr McGuinness said that the British government, the British Army and the PSNI had "consciously allowed" over 400 people and their families "to live under threat without informing them of this risk for over 16 months in order to sustain the cover up".
A police spokesperson confirmed that a document believed to be linked to an internal security breach in July 2004 had been recovered and that a number of people had been warned about their personal security.
(SP)
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