Panorama, Tabloid Hacks Exposed

What Philip Campbell Smith Said About News Of The World & Their Lawyers..

News Of The World Mislead To Their Lawyers In Computer Hacking Case

News Of The World Mislead Their Lawyers In Computer Hacking Case

A hacking victim informs a Lawyer for The News Of The World after misleading claims where sent to his solicitors, the victim informs the Lawyer for the News Of The World that things are not what they seem with their client ( News Of The World ).

News Of The World Lied about Philip Campbell Smith. we bring you the recordings.....


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Hacked British Agent ( Global News Press Release )

Global News Press Release, 10.6.2011.

The Metropolitan Police's investigation into computer hacking

The Metropolitan Police's investigation into hacking has widened from allegations of voicemail interception to that of emails and computer files, Channel 4 News has learned.

Full Details, CH4 News.

Operation Tuleta

New Metropolitan Police Hacking Enquiry, "Operation Tuleta"

A New Metropolitan Police Hacking Enquiry "Operation Tuleta" has contacted a number of former British Army agents that have worked in Northern Ireland, (infiltrating the Provisional IRA)
in regard to computer hacking carried out on behalf of News International ( News Of The World )in London & Ireland.

The former British agents are expected to be interviewed shortly..



More to follow......

MP calls for expanded investigation as list grows of those allegedly hacked by Jonathan Rees for News International

Pressure is building on the Metropolitan police to expand their phone-hacking inquiry to include a notorious private investigator who was accused in the House of Commons on Wednesday of targeting politicians, members of the royal family and high-level terrorist informers on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's News International.


Guardian inquiries reveal that the former prime minister Tony Blair is among the suspected victims of Jonathan Rees, who was involved in the theft of confidential data, the hacking of computers and, it is alleged, burglary. According to close associates of Rees, he also targeted:


• Jack Straw when he was home secretary, Peter Mandelson when he was trade secretary and Blair's media adviser Alastair Campbell;


• Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, all of whom are said to have had their bank accounts penetrated, and Kate Middleton when she was Prince William's girlfriend;


• The former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir John Stevens, and the current assistant commissioner, John Yates, who later supervised the failed phone-hacking inquiry for 19 months;


• The governor and deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose mortgage account details were obtained and sold.


Rees, who worked for the Mirror Group as well as the New of the World, is also accused of using a specialist computer hacker in July 2006 to steal information about MI6 agents who had infiltrated the Provisional IRA. According to a BBC Panorama programme in March, Rees was commissioned by Alex Marunchak, then the News of the World's executive editor, to hack the information from the computer of Ian Hurst, a former British intelligence officer in Northern Ireland who had stayed in contact with several highly vulnerable agents. Marunchak has denied the allegations.


The Guardian has previously identified other suspected targets of Rees, including Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, George Michael, Linford Christie, Gary Lineker, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, and the family of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.


None of these cases has been officially confirmed or even investigated. With many of them, it is not yet clear precisely what form of surveillance Rees and his agency, Southern Investigations, were using. Answers may lie in the "boxloads" of paperwork the Metropolitan police are believed to have seized from Rees.

But the Labour MP Tom Watson told the prime minister on Wednesday the head of the Operation Weeting inquiry into the News of the World's investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, had told him that it may be beyond its terms of reference to investigate this evidence.


"Prime minister, powerful forces are attempting a cover-up," Watson said. "Please tell me what you intend to do, to make sure this doesn't happen."

While Glenn Mulcaire worked for the News of the World as a full-time employee from 2001, Rees worked freelance for the Mirror Group and the News of the World from the mid 1990s. His agency was earning up to £150,000 a year from the News of the World alone. In 1999, he was arrested and sentenced to seven years for conspiring to plant cocaine on a woman so that her husband would get custody of their children.


After his release in May 2004, the News of the World continued to hire him under the editorship of Andy Coulson, who went on to become David Cameron's media adviser. Rees's targets during this period included Prince William's then girlfriend, Kate Middleton.


On Wednesday, a News International spokesperson said: "It is well documented that Jonathan Rees and Southern Investigations worked for a whole variety of newspaper groups. With regards to Tom Watson's specific allegations, we believe these are wholly inaccurate. The Met police, with whom we are co-operating fully in Operation Weeting, have not asked us for any information regarding Jonathan Rees. We note again that Tom Watson MP made these allegations under parliamentary privilege."


Scotland Yard is believed to have collected hundreds of thousands of documents during a series of investigations into Rees over his links with corrupt officers, and over the 1987 murder of his former business partner, Daniel Morgan. Charges of murder against Rees were dismissed earlier this year.


Daniel Morgan's brother, Alastair, who has been gathering information for a book, told the Guardian he was aware from his own investigations and from material revealed in court hearings that the Metropolitan police was holding "boxloads" of evidence on Rees's activities. Guardian inquiries suggest that this paperwork could include explosive new evidence of illegal news-gathering by the News of the World and other papers.


According to journalists and investigators who worked with him, Rees exploited his position as a freemason to make links with masonic police officers who illegally sold him information on targets chosen by the News of the World, the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Mirror. One close contact, Det Sgt Sid Fillery, left the Metropolitan police to become Rees's business partner and added more officers to their network. Fillery was subsequently convicted of possession of indecent images of children.


Some police contacts are said to have been blackmailed into providing confidential information. One of Rees's former associates claims that Rees had compromising photographs of serving officers, including one who was caught in a drunken coma with a couple of prostitutes and with a toilet seat around his neck. Rees claimed to be in touch with corrupt Customs officers, a corrupt VAT inspector and two corrupt bank employees.


An investigator who worked for Rees claims he was commissioning burglaries of public figures to steal material for newspapers. Southern Investigations has previously been implicated in handling paperwork which was stolen by a professional burglar from the safe of Paddy Ashdown's lawyer, when Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats. The paperwork, which was eventually obtained by the News of the World, recorded Ashdown discussing his fears that newspapers might expose an affair with his secretary.


The Guardian has confirmed that Rees also used two specialist "blaggers" who would telephone the Inland Revenue, the DVLA, banks and phone companies and trick them into handing over private data to be sold to Fleet Street.


One of the blaggers who regularly worked for him, John Gunning, was responsible for obtaining details of bank accounts belonging to Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, which were then sold to the Sunday Mirror. Gunning was later convicted of illegally obtaining confidential data from British Telecom. Rees also obtained details of accounts at Coutts bank belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Kent. The bank accounts of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, are also thought to have been compromised.


The Guardian has been told that Rees spoke openly about obtaining confidential data belonging to senior politicians and recorded their names in his paperwork. One source close to Rees claims that apart from Tony Blair, Straw, Mandelson and Campbell, he also targeted Gaynor Regan, who became the second wife of the foreign secretary, Robin Cook, the former shadow home secretary, Gerald Kaufman; and the former Tory minister David Mellor.


It is not yet known precisley what Rees was doing with these political targets, although in the case of Peter Mandelson, it appears that Rees obtained confidential details of two bank accounts which he held at Coutts, and his building society account at Britannia. Rees is also said to have targeted his brother, Miles Mandelson.


Separately, for the News of the World, Glenn Mulcaire was hacking the voicemail of the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, Straw's successor as home secretary, David Blunkett, the media secretary, Tessa Jowell, and the Europe minister, Chris Bryant. Scotland Yard has repeatedly refused to reveal how many politicians were victims of phone hacking, although Simon Hughes, Boris Johnson and George Galloway have all been named.


The succesful hacking of a computer belonging to the former British intelligence officer Ian Hurst was achieved in July 2006 by sending Hurst an email containing a Trojan program which copied Hurst's emails and relayed them to the hacker. This included messages he had exchanged with at least two agents who informed on the Provisional IRA – Freddie Scappaticci, codenamed Stakeknife; and a second informant known as Kevin Fulton. Both men were regarded as high-risk targets for assassination. Hurst was one of the very few people who knew their whereabouts. The hacker cannot be named for legal reasons.


There would be further security concern if Rees's paperwork confirmed strong claims by those close to him that he claimed to have targeted the then Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir John Stevens, who would have had regular access to highly sensitive intelligence. Sir John's successor, Sir Ian Blair, is believed to have been targeted by Glenn Mulcaire, although it has not been confirmed that Mulcaire succeeded in listening to his voicemail. Assistant commissioner John Yates was targeted by Rees when Yates was running inquiries into police corruption in the late 1990s. It appears that Yates did not realise that he himself had been a target when he was responsible for the policing of the phone-hacking affair between July 2009 and January 2011.


Targeting the Bank of England, Rees is believed to have earned thousands of pounds by penetrating the past or present mortgage accounts of the then governor, Eddie George, his deputy, Mervyn King, who is now governor, and half-a-dozen other members of the monetary policy committee.


According to police information provided to the Guardian in September 2002, an internal Scotland Yard report recorded that Rees and his network were engaged in long-term penetration of police intelligence and that "their thirst for knowledge is driven by profit to be accrued from the media".


Operation Weeting has been investigating phone hacking by the News of the World since January. The paper's assistant editor, Ian Edmondson, chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, and former news editor James Weatherup have been arrested and released on police bail.


On Wednesday, A police spokesman said: "[We] can confirm that since January 2011 the MPS [Metropolitan police service] has received a number of allegations regarding breach of privacy which fall outside the remit of Operation Weeting. These allegations are currently being considered."

Phone-hacking scandal widens to include Kate Middleton and Tony Blair

Kevin Fultons Comuter Hacked

In 2007, Kevin Fulton made a complaint to police ombudsman's officers from Northern Ireland after information stored on his computer and the content of his emails were leaked to a journalist, Fulton at that time suspected the leak came from (PSNI) police officers or the security services MI5.

News Of the World Computer Hacking ...

News of the world hacking case to take a new twist.

A new twist to the News Of the World hacking is about to break.
some of the victims of the computer hacking have been conducting their own investigations, it is said that they have uncovered a cover up by some police officers and other Government departments.

More to follow.......

An inquiry dreaded by all in Ulster's dirty war

The Smithwick Tribunal into the murders of two senior RUC officers opens today. Even 22 years on, its findings could still send shockwaves through Dublin and London, writes Alan Murray.

On the morning of March 20, 1989, Harry Breen was consumed with foreboding. His hurriedly-planned journey to Dundalk Garda station with a colleague would be followed the next day with a top-level meeting with Customs and Excise officials and, two days after that, he was expected to slam a comprehensive report on the Chief Constable's desk outlining how effectively to dismantle the racketeering empire of the IRA's border godfather, Thomas 'Slab' Murphy.

Breen harboured thoughts of a fateful premonition and expressed disquiet to his staff officer at the presence of a particular Garda officer based in Co Louth and that officer's suspected links to the IRA.

Chief Superintendent Breen was scheduled to travel to Dundalk with a senior RUC colleague, but another operational commitment meant that the officer could not travel to Dundalk that day to fulfil the appointment.

Instead, it was determined that Harry Breen would travel to Dundalk with Superintendent Bob Buchanan who, the following week, would transfer to a much less dangerous operational posting in Newtownards, Co Down.

The two senior RUC officers would travel to Dundalk in Buchanan's red Vauxhall Cavalier car, which had been used previously by Buchanan to negotiate his way to Dundalk around 20 times in previous months.

What Breen did not know - and what Buchanan was totally unaware of - was that his Cavalier had been identified by the IRA as an 'RUC vehicle'.

Not only that, the IRA had tailed the Cavalier on a previous journey to Dundalk. Breen's sense of foreboding was completely justified.

But another thing that the two men and the RUC did not know was almost as alarming. An Army surveillance unit had actually observed and noted IRA 'dickers' following Buchanan's red Cavalier - the very car that was to be used to ferry Breen and Buchanan to and from Dundalk on March 20, 1989.

Why the Army failed to communicate the IRA's clear knowledge of Buchanan's car to the RUC's Special Branch, or why MI5 - if it received the intelligence information direct from the Army - failed to alert the RUC, is one of the compelling issues which will be probed at the Smithwick Tribunal which opens in formal public session in Dublin today.

The failure of the Garda and the RUC to take adequate and appropriate measures to safeguard the two senior RUC officers in the climate of intense IRA activity in 1989 will be one of the key aspects probed by Judge Smithwick's tribunal.
Collusion via omission has already been mentioned in the Rosemary Nelson Inquiry findings. And, if it was identified as a factor in her murder, then indisputably it was a key ingredient in the ability of the IRA to murder Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan.

The role of the Irish state in events leading up to the fatal ambush and the integrity of the Garda Siochanna will also come under the spotlight in the inquiry, which Dublin's justice minister, Alan Shatter, wants wrapped up by November.
It's not difficult to fathom why elements within the British and Irish security establishments - 22 years after the double-murder - might welcome proceedings being guillotined before the role of British Army double-agent Freddie Scappaticci could be dissected and explored in detail.

Equally difficult issues for the Dublin government that will arise will be why the decision of a Garda commissioner to approve the transfer of a garda based in Co Louth to another operational area was countermanded by Taoiseach Charlie Haughey's office not once, but twice.
Unofficially, some gardai in Co Louth were under suspicion by the force's headquarters in Dublin's Phoenix Park before Breen and Buchanan were ambushed.
Communications relating to IRA activity in Louth were routinely processed through Phoenix Park and RUC headquarters at Knock in Belfast, bypassing - where possible - gardai in the county.

The tribunal is expected to hear that the IRA had carried out surveillance of Dundalk Garda station from a building on the other side of the road and had probably first 'clocked' Bob Buchanan's red Cavalier as he parked it in front of the station during one of his 20 visits in the weeks prior to the Jonesborough ambush.
In spite of Harry Breen's foreboding about the trip to Dundalk, he would have been comforted slightly by the fact that the meeting with the Garda had not been long in the planning.
The IRA didn't have weeks to lay their deadly trap in Jonesborough. Perhaps they had only hours to prepare after learning that Buchanan's car was back again outside Dundalk Garda station.

Three former Garda officers have been granted legal representation at the Smithwick Tribunal, as has west Belfast IRA man Scappaticci - the British Army agent known as 'Stakeknife', who interrogated IRA members suspected of working for the British and who allegedly liaised with rogue Garda officers stationed along the border.
Scappaticci's involvement in the interrogation and torture of Cooley peninsula farmer Tom Oliver in July 1991 may be relevant to the Smithwick Tribunal.
It will be especially relevant if the Garda officer who betrayed Oliver - a registered Garda informant - is the same officer suspected of betraying Breen and Buchanan.

In spite of the Irish government's desire to guillotine Smithwick, it is inevitable that details embarrassing for both the British and Irish administrations will be made public.


Belfast Telegraph: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/an-inquiry-dreaded-by-all-in-ulsters-dirty-war-16008757.html

Former Agents Labelled As IRA Sympathisers

Ministry of Defence officials in London labelled three former British undercover agents as Republican sympathisers (IRA) to the prime ministers office and to other government departments.


The former agents, Sam Rosenfeld, Willie Carlin, & Kevin Fulton spoke out about the way they where abandoned and set up for murder by intelligence services after working undercover in Ireland against the IRA.

it is believed the MOD labelled the former spies as Republican sympathisers to discourage MP's and others from assisting the trio and to prevent dirty secrets of the MOD's dirty war in Ireland from being exposed.

More to follow....

Legal action is now in the pipeline as some of the former agents are instructing solicitors.

Maggie Hunter PSNI,C3.Requested "Adverse Intelligence" on Former British Agent.

Maggie Hunter ( Very Very Old Photo )


Police look to British Army Intelligence for "Adverse Intelligence" on a former British Army Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland.

The then head of the "New Police" force PSNI (special Branch C3) Maggie Hunter contacted JSG a secret British Army Unit in Northern Ireland that replaced the Force Research Unit ( FRU )and requested "Adverse Intelligence on the subject"

A request for intelligence was not what she wanted,
she wanted "Adverse Intelligence" on the Agent......




More on this story later.....