Hundreds of people have been warned of a potential security risk from the IRA following a discovery in computer files seized during police raids in Northern Ireland earlier this year.
Security sources confirmed more politicians, judges, forensic scientists, police and loyalists have been informed their details were discovered on suspected IRA intelligence files following the break-in at the Castlereagh police station.
A further examination of a computer seized during a raid on a republican's home in Belfast has uncovered some old material but other entries had been updated, with the word "target" typed against some of the entries.
"Where it has been identified someone might have been at risk or under any form of threat, steps have been taken to inform them," a Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesman said.
Ulster Unionist culture minister Mr Michael McGimpsey said "serious question marks" were being raised about the republicans' approach to the peace process.
"By no stretch of the imagination can you say republicans are adhering to peaceful and democratic needs when there is targeting going on," he said.
SDLP Assembly member Mr Alex Attwood remained cautious about the claims but said paramilitaries on both sides needed to think carefully about how they were perceived.
"Paramilitary organisations have to understand that there will be people who will conclude that they have been flying close to the wind recently," the West Belfast MLA said.
The allegations were rubbished tonight by Sinn Féin national chairman Mr Mitchel McLaughlin.
"It is vitally important that everyone remembers that the source of this story and of other similar stories in recent months are the same people who planned and plotted and conspired with loyalist death squads to kill political opponents, hundreds of Catholics, Protestants and the lawyers Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson.
"They have no integrity. They have no credibility. Their agenda is to destroy the peace process. They must not be allowed."
"Its production and timing is clearly linked to the concerted efforts of the spy masters and spooks within the British system who are determined to undermine the peace process and to further confuse Unionist opinion through the drip feeding of unsubstantiated allegations."
PA