The Sinn Féin president, Mr Gerry Adams, has rejected new claims the IRA has been targeting judges and politicians.
Yesterday, the PSNI said more than 200 top public figures, including politicians and judges, have been warned their names were discovered on a computer disk in the home of a prominent republican.
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However, Mr Adams insisted the Provisionals' ceasefire was still intact. "It's my firm belief that the IRA remains disciplined, remains on cessation, remains committed to the peace process," he said.
Mr Adams dismissed allegations that forensic scientists and loyalist details were also on the intelligence database seized during a raid on a nationalist area of north Belfast.
The find was made during an investigation into the break-in and theft of confidential files from Special Branch offices at the Castlereagh police complex in east Belfast.
Security sources still believe the IRA took delivery of the documents stolen during the raid in March.
The Director of Public Prosecutions is considering a police application for a chef who once worked at Castlereagh to be extradited from the United States to face fresh questioning. Detectives have already interviewed him twice in New York.
Mr Adams claimed the accusations were another attempt to wreck the devolved administration.
"It's about trying to kill the peace process, that's what it's about," he insisted. "It's about trying to make things so difficult that foolish people within unionism will bring the crisis in securocrats and in unionism into the political institutions."