Boston College has been caught up in an investigation over the 1972 murder of a suspected IRA informer.
The New York Times reports:
LONDON — The police in Northern Ireland said on Thursday that they were taking legal action against Boston College to obtain all transcripts and recordings of interviews with paramilitary members on both sides of the sectarian divide who took part in an oral history project there.
The move came after 11 interviews with former members of the Irish Republican Army were subpoenaed last year. They had all referred to the 1972 abduction, execution and secret burial of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10 whom the I.R.A. believed to be an informer.
Tapes of those interviews led to the brief arrest and questioning this month of Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the former political arm of the I.R.A. and now one of Ireland’s most successful political parties. Mr. Adams denied any links to the McConville murder and was released without charge on May 4…
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