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These documents were scanned, collated and catalogued by Ruth Murray, Annabel Harris, Isha Pareek, Eleanor Williams, Antoine Yenk, Harriet Carter, Rosa Moore, Oliver Nicholls, Kieran Wetherwick, and Cerys Griffiths.
[{"insert":"NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE"},{"attributes":{"align":"right"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"WHITEHALL"},{"attributes":{"align":"right"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"LONDON SW1A 2AZ"},{"attributes":{"align":"right"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":"Alex Allan Esq\nPrincipal Private Secretary\n10 Downing Street\nSW1A 0AA\n\n3 December 1993"},{"attributes":{"align":"right"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":"Dear Mr Allan,\n\nDOCUMENTS RELEASED BY SINN FEIN — THURSDAY 2 DECEMBER\n\nCopies of the documents which Sinn Fein released to the press yesterday after its press conference, are attached.\n\nI am afraid they are of very poor quality, but I will try and send you better copies on Monday.\n\nYours sincerely,"},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":"Simon Rogers"},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":"SIMON ROGERS"},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Private Secretary to the Secretary of State (L)"},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Sinn Fein briefing document 2 December 1993"},{"insert":"\n\nSince the launch of the Irish peace initiative, the British government have adopted a hostile attitude towards a peace process. They disguised this by using the rhetoric of peace while creating diversions, denying knowledge of elements of the peace process and by publicly re-iterating that they have no intention of changing policy. John Major's refusal to join the persuaders is reflected in his attitude to every strand of the Irish peace initiative from his government's attitude to the Hume/Adams initiative, its atittude to Albert Reynolds' approaches and its attitude to Sinn Fein. In all of this there is one central motivation. This is to thwart the Irish peace effort. In an effort to do this the British have resorted to lies, distractions and diversions.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"British duplicity"},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"SEPTEMBER 25th"},{"insert":", the day after the issuing of the 2nd joint statement by John Hume and Gerry Adams.\n\nMayhew said:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"We have made it clear that we do not negotiate with people who support the use of violence for political ends.\""},{"insert":"\n\nJohn Major would make no comment on the development, while Sir Patrick Mayhew said he had noted the joint statement "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"with interest\""},{"insert":" and would consider carefully any matters put to him by the Irish Government.\n\nPeter Temple-Morris, chair of the British–Irish interparliamentary body, said:\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"Now is not the time for the government to talk to Sinn Fein, but it is a very good thing for John Hume to be doing it, provided we can keep Sinn Fein alongside the legitimate process.\""},{"insert":"\n\n(Irish Times, 27.9.93)\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"SEPTEMBER 27th"},{"insert":", Irish Press. Sir Patrick Mayhew has insisted that no talks could be held with the IRA until the campaign of terrorism had been halted on a permanent basis.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"We will not talk to anybody or any organisation that perpetrates, uses or justifies violence for political ends,\" "},{"insert":"he declared.\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"It rests with the Provisional IRA to remove that disqualification,\" "},{"insert":"he declared.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"British deny knowing substance of Hume/Adams initiative"},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"SEPTEMBER 27th"},{"insert":", Mayhew held a press conference in Belfast city.\n\n\tQuestioned by reporters about whether he had seen the contents of the Adams/Hume report, the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Irish Times "},{"insert":"commented:\n\n\tSir Patrick said he knew nothing of the contents of the joint Hume—Adams report to be forwarded to Dublin and would await and see whatr the Government might disclose about it.\n\n\tAsked whether British Government considerations of the report might not be seen as a form of negotiations with Sinn Fein by proxy, which would in turn anger Unionists, Sir Patrick replied it would be "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"childish\" "},{"insert":"not to view the report [altered] by Dublin.\n\n[Direct] quote from Mayhew:\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"If someone in Dublin said, 'here is the text of what has been shown to us', it would be very silly if I were to say, 'well I am not even going to look at it'... Whether I am impressed by it is a very different matter,\" "},{"insert":"he said.\n\nHe also said he refused to speculate about the content of a document "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"which may or may not exist.\""},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mayhew "},{"insert":"went on to accuse Sinn Fein and in particular Gerry Adams of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"hypocrisy\""},{"insert":" for talking about peace while "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"his friends in the IRA are planting bombs.\""},{"insert":"\n\n\t"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"\"I tell them (IRA) this, you will get nowhere by your bombs and bullets except to prison. I repeat yet again: the British government will not talk or negotiate with anyone who perpetrates or justifies acts of violence. Without a total cessation of violence, there will be no peace – and the Provisional IRA will go on experiencing unrelenting attrition, such as they met near Crossmaglen last week.\""},{"insert":"\n\nIrish Times 28.9.93\n\n\n\n"}]
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Cover Letter from Simon Rogers to Alex Allan Enclosing Documents Released by Sinn Féin on 2 December 1993
Cover letter encloses copies of documents released by Sinn Féin on 2 December 1993, recorded in the same file item. Text on the photocopied documents is a little unclear in some places, and some pages are entirely illegible. Some pages show that the originals have been annotated.
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