Adams 'not prepared to speculate' on IRA membership, High Court hears

According to the High Court case, claims were made in a BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight programme in 2016 over who sanctioned the killing of British spy Denis Donaldson. Mr Adams has denied the allegation that he had any involvement in ordering the murder. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Gerry Adams has rejected a suggestion that he was a senior IRA member released from internment as a precondition to talks aimed at securing a truce between the paramilitary group and the British Army in 1972.

The former Sinn Féin leader was giving evidence on the second week of his High Court action against the BBC, in which he claims a Spotlight programme and a related article published in 2016 defamed him by falsely accusing him of sanctioning the 2006 killing of British agent Denis Donaldson.