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| Dolours Price interviews received by US officials | Dolours Price interviews received by US officials |
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| By Jennifer O'Leary Dublin reporter | By Jennifer O'Leary Dublin reporter |
| US officials have received transcripts of interviews that former IRA member Dolours Price gave to an oral history project at Boston College. | |
| The BBC has learned that 13 transcripts have been received by US officials and the material is being held by the Office of the Assistant US Attorney. | |
| It follows ongoing legal action in the United States on behalf of British authorities who want the material. | |
| The court asked that US government officials file a response by 9 January. | |
| Dolours Price was one of 26 former IRA members to give a series of interviews - between 2001 and 2006 - as part of a research study, called the Belfast Project. | Dolours Price was one of 26 former IRA members to give a series of interviews - between 2001 and 2006 - as part of a research study, called the Belfast Project. |
| The project was funded by Boston College, which hired three researchers, including journalist Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre, a former republican prisoner. | The project was funded by Boston College, which hired three researchers, including journalist Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre, a former republican prisoner. |
| In return for honest accounts, former republican and loyalist paramilitaries were promised that their identities would be kept confidential and that the interviews would be released only after their deaths. | In return for honest accounts, former republican and loyalist paramilitaries were promised that their identities would be kept confidential and that the interviews would be released only after their deaths. |
| Mr Moloney told the BBC said he is hopeful the interviews will be returned to Boston College but insisted he won't co-operate with any future criminal prosecution. | |
| "We are determined to fight this all the way," he said. | |
| "If whoever has intitiated this action inside the policing structures persists in any sort of attempt to bring criminal charges, then they can expect absolutely no co-operation from me or the interviewers." | |
| He claims he has information that the British Government "does not want to own this... quite the reverse, there's a wish this thing would go away. | |
| In December, Boston College was ordered by a federal judge to turn over recordings, transcripts and other items related to Dolours Price to federal prosecutors acting on behalf of British authorities. | |
| An appeals court decision last Thursday temporarily prevented US officials from handing the documents over to British authorities. | |
| Three DVDs of interviews conducted by Ed Moloney in 2010 which were not part of the Belfast Project have also been received by US officials. | Three DVDs of interviews conducted by Ed Moloney in 2010 which were not part of the Belfast Project have also been received by US officials. |
| US prosecutors have demanded anything in the Boston College archive related to the 1972 IRA abduction and murder of Belfast mother-of-10, Jean McConville. | US prosecutors have demanded anything in the Boston College archive related to the 1972 IRA abduction and murder of Belfast mother-of-10, Jean McConville. |