<p>Gerry Adams&nbsp;features&nbsp;heavily in now declassified documents and reveal that the British considered him, along with Martin McGuinness, to&nbsp;be&nbsp;the leaders of&nbsp;republicanism.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr&nbsp;Adams denies&nbsp;ever being&nbsp;a member&nbsp;of the&nbsp;IRA, but&nbsp;a&nbsp;formerly&nbsp;secret&nbsp;document&nbsp;includes a&nbsp;claim&nbsp;that&nbsp;he&nbsp;was&nbsp;re-elected to the Army Council&nbsp;in 1996.&nbsp;</p><p> Another document&nbsp;records&nbsp;a former IRA man, then a member of the Workers Party&nbsp;telling the Government that he was told by Adams in Long Kesh that&nbsp;he&nbsp;would&nbsp;be prepared&nbsp;‘to&nbsp;wade up to my knees in Protestant blood to a united Ireland’ - something Adams says he never said or believed.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Belfast Telegraph’s&nbsp;Northern Ireland Editor, Sam McBride, joins&nbsp;Ciarán Dunbar&nbsp;on the BelTel.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>