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12 August 2006
A sends:
The article on Cryptome today about Kevin Fulton is old news:
Police seize files of spy linked to IRA murders
By David Harrison
(Filed: 23/07/2006)
Cryptome,
joyrider has just posted a new topic entitled "FULTON (KEELEY) UNDER PRESSURE??" in forum "Irish Affairs".
The topic can be found here:
http://www.irlnet.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13060
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Police have raided the secret hideaway of a former soldier who claims he carried out killings with official approval while working as a British agent within the IRA.
Officers went to the home of Kevin Fulton - not his real name - as part of an investigation into his claims in a new book that he was involved in murder and bombings.
In his memoir, Unsung Hero, published last month, Fulton describes shooting and abducting people and planting bombs while working within the Provisional IRA as an agent for British security forces. Even his wife knew nothing of his 21 years as a double agent.
Fulton claims that he committed all the offences, including helping to kill British soldiers, with the full knowledge of his intelligence handlers, and is suing the Government for a compensation package he claims he was promised for his work.
Last week five plain clothes officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) raided his address in southern England and seized a computer, papers, audio tapes and recording equipment. Police also visited the west London office of his publisher, John Blake, and the home of the ghost-writer John Nally, and confiscated all documents relating to the book.
Fulton, who lives on the run under a death threat from the IRA and cannot see his wife and children in Northern Ireland, said yesterday he was shocked by the raids and vowed to fight any attempt to prosecute him. "I am supposed to be living in a secret location but they have compromised me," he said. "I do not know exactly what they are investigating. The police have got to do their job but I was not a terrorist who turned. I was a serving British soldier working covertly in Northern Ireland.
"If they try to get me, I am ready to fight and I will bring MPs and other senior people into it because they knew all about what I was doing. I didn't break the law, but war is dirty."
Fulton, from Newry, Northern Ireland, joined the Army at 18 and was soon recruited as an agent. He claims to have infiltrated the IRA and remained there for 15 years but says he was abandoned by his military controllers in 1994, when his usefulness ended. He fled Northern Ireland that year, returned in 1997 and fled again when his life was threatened.
"To this day British intelligence agencies refuse to acknowledge the full extent of my role in the dirty war," he claimed. "In truth they'd like me dead. I'm a nuisance. I don't expect to live long."
Police are understood to be particularly interested in Fulton's confession of links to the murder of Eoin Morley, a republican shot dead by the Provisionals in Newry 16 years ago. In the book, Fulton admits being one of two gunmen involved, although he does not say who fired the fatal shots. The other man was an IRA bomb-maker who later joined the Real IRA.
Morley's mother, Ailish, and brother, Ivan, have called for Fulton and the second gunman to be charged.
Last year the Northern Ireland police ombudsman found that Morley's murder had not been investigated properly and that police had failed to arrest a suspect, understood to be Fulton.
The Morleys, a well-known republican family, lived near Fulton's home on the Derrybeg estate in Newry, where Morley was shot twice in the back outside his girlfriend's house. Ivan Morley believes that senior IRA figures had resented the Morleys ever since Eoin's father, David, defeated Gerry Adams in an IRA inmates' election to become an IRA officer in the Maze prison in the early 1970s.
Eoin Morley had left the IRA and, like Ivan, joined the rival Irish People's Liberation Organisation. Fulton says his death was ordered soon after that by a member of the IRA with a grudge against Morley.
Yesterday the PSNI would not confirm that Fulton's home had been raided. It said that as part of its investigation of "the contents of a book" searches had been carried out in south-east England.
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