Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has released a statement emphatically denying the allegations made on Tuesday night’s Spotlight programme.
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In 2006, he was told by the police that his role was about to be exposed in the media and fled to a remote cottage in Donegal.
Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams has rejected a former informer’s accusation that Adams authorized the 2006 Irish Republican Army killing of another high-profile informant.
The man said Adams approved the 2006 killing of former senior Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson.
The allegation about the 2006 killing of Denis Donaldson was made by a man who claimed he was also a paid state agent in the IRA.
Mr Adams, who said he would have no issue speaking to police to reiterate his denial, said he was consulting with his lawyer about potential legal action against the BBC.
Suspicions that Provisionals killed Donaldson after declaring peace threatened to derail efforts to revive a unity government for Northern Ireland.
Adams has denied any involvement in the murder of Donaldson.
Mr Donaldson was killed in Co Donegal shortly after he publicly revealed he was a British agent, a move which led to the collapse of the institutions in Stormont.
“That the BBC would broadcast unsubstantiated allegations from an anonymous person, a self-confessed agent, about me, I think is very, very low journalism indeed”, Mr Adams said.
Mr Murphy’s solicitor was contacted by Spotlight but the programme said they had received no response last night. He was shot dead a short time later, and three years afterward the Real IRA dissident republican group claimed responsibility, the BBC reported.
However today, Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly has called the programme “a collection of discredited conspiracy theories”.
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He added: “The programme-makers have had no regard for the feelings of families of the victims of the conflict, including the family of Denis Donaldson”.
