{"id":337783,"date":"2025-12-27T07:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337783\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:07:08","slug":"irish-state-papers-government-said-ira-man-organised-26-5m-bank-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337783\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish state papers: Government said IRA man organised \u00a326.5m bank raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was considered the head of intelligence of the IRA for a period from the mid-1990s &#8211; being named as such under parliamentary privilege.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More recently, he was the northern chairman of Sinn F\u00e9in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent more than 20 years in jail, beginning with internment without trial when he was 17, a year after he joined the IRA in 1972.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Security sources linked him to several major incidents, including the Northern Bank robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Irish State papers now reveal the UK government &#8220;were given to believe&#8221; the raid had been organised by Mr Storey and was too complex to have been solely &#8220;a brigade job&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinn F\u00e9in has not responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was considered the head of intelligence of the IRA for a period from the mid-1990s &#8211; being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-337783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}