Ian Hurst -Martin Ingram, Hacking: Formal criminal investigation

Formal criminal investigation


Former army intelligence officer Ian Hurst told Channel 4 that he had been informed by the Met this week.

A private investigator working for News of the World allegedly hacked into Mr Hurst's computer in 2006 and retrieved sensitive emails regarding Northern Ireland security matters.

Police officers working for Operation Tuleta have informed me that they have identified information of evidential value in regards to my family's computer being illegally accessed over a sustained period of 2006. Ian Hurst, Former army intelligence officer.

In a statement, Mr Hurst said:


"Police officers working for Operation Tuleta have informed me that they have identified information of evidential value in regards to my family's computer being illegally accessed over a sustained period of 2006.
"The decision by the Metropolitan Police to proceed to a full criminal investigation was conveyed to me this week by Tuleta police officers."

EX-Garda Exposes New Informer At Smithwick tribunal.

EX-Garda Exposes New Informer At Smithwick tribunal.

Ex Garda sergeant Tom Fox exposes a new informer called "Mr McCann"

The ex-detective said the man he had referred to in his evidence was a Mr McCann, who he had believed was also Mr Keeley.

The retired detective who said an MI5 agent was "unreliable" and "a spacer" has told the Smithwick tribunal that the man he was talking about was not Peter Keeley, the British agent also known as 'Kevin Fulton'.



Inquiries at the social welfare office in Dundalk after Mr McCann left the area had revealed that no person of that name was signing on, he said, although Mr McCann had been seen regularly at the office.

Sources say that there are now new investigations in Republican circles to find out the identity of Mr McCann.

Ex-garda Tom Fox in tribunal U-turn on agent claim

By Gerard Cunningham
Thursday, 28 July 2011


A retired Irish detective who said an MI5 agent was "unreliable" and "a spacer" has told the Smithwick tribunal that the man he was talking about was not Peter Keeley, the British agent also known as 'Kevin Fulton'.

Garda sergeant Tom Fox clarified his evidence from last Friday when he was shown a photograph of Mr Keeley at the tribunal.

The image, taken from a website, was supplied to the tribunal by lawyers representing Belfast republican Freddie Scappaticci.

"I can confirm to you that I never saw that man in my life," Mr Fox told the inquiry.

The ex-detective said the man he had referred to in his evidence was a Mr McCann, who he had believed was also Mr Keeley. Inquiries at the social welfare office in Dundalk after Mr McCann left the area had revealed that no person of that name was signing on, he said, although Mr McCann had been seen regularly at the office.

Mr Fox also said a man known as 'Mooch' Blair was well-known to gardai in Dundalk.

Counsel for Mr Keeley said Mr Blair was "a well-known subversive", and his client often drove Mr Blair in Dundalk.

In response to a question from counsel for retired detective sergeant Owen Corrigan, the tribunal was told that his real name was Peter Keeley, and this was the name he operated under while working as an MI5 British agent.

The tribunal heard that 'Kevin Fulton' was a pseudonym invented by a journalist when Mr Keeley gave interviews about the Omagh bombing and allegations that Mr Corrigan was an IRA "mole".

Mr Corrigan has described the allegation as a "monstrous lie".

The tribunal is examining claims of garda collusion in the deaths of RUC chief superintendent Harry Breen and superintendent Bob Buchanan as they returned from a meeting in Dundalk garda station in March 1989.

Retired assistant commissioner Edward O'Dea was sent to Dundalk in the days following the murder of the two RUC officers to investigate how the meeting was set up and who knew about it.

"I did a complete report, I sent it to the commissioner. It didn't come back to me," Mr O'Dea said.

In the report, Mr O'Dea concluded that no leak about the meeting came from within An Garda Siochana.

Mr O'Dea said that Buchanan "was really setting himself up" by travelling regularly to Garda stations in his own car without changing licence plates. And he said there was "no way" former Det Sgt Owen Corrigan would tip off the IRA. "I have no doubt in my mind as to his loyalty to the force."

The tribunal resumes in September.

Story: Belfast Telegraph.

Retired detective sergeant Tom Fox has told the Smithwick Tribunal that a former MI5 agent within the IRA was not 'a spacer'.

Retired detective sergeant Tom Fox has told the Smithwick Tribunal that a former MI5 agent within the IRA was not 'a spacer'.


Smithwick Tribunal - Tom Fox retracted comments about Peter Keeley

A retired detective sergeant has clarified comments he made to the Smithwick Tribunal about a man who worked as an agent for MI5 within the IRA.

Tom Fox last week referred to a man he believed to be Peter Keeley, who also uses the name of Kevin Fulton.

Mr Fox had described him as a 'spacer' and was not a man who could be trusted. Information that he passed on was always exaggerated and that was the view of the detectives in Dundalk.

He had also said that if it was the person he thought it was, then he also used the name McCann.

Today a photograph of Mr Keeley was shown to Mr Fox when he was recalled by the tribunal.

The witness confirmed that this was not the person he had been talking about last week and that his comments did not refer to Mr Keeley.

Mr Keeley has already given a statement to the tribunal in which he claims that he was an agent in the IRA and that the Detective Sergeant Owen Corrigan was passing information to the paramilitaries. Mr Corrigan has always denied the claim.

The tribunal is investigating allegations that Mr Corrigan or two other named gardaí, retired sergeant Leo Colton or former garda Finbarr Hickey, were an IRA mole inside Dundalk Garda Station.

It has been alleged that one of them passed information to the IRA about a meeting in the station in March 1989 involving two senior RUC officers who were ambushed and killed shortly afterwards.

All three former gardaí deny the allegations.

Neil Rafferty, counsel for Mr Keeley, said his client operated inside the IRA for MI5 and that the name Kevin Fulton was given to him for newspaper reports when he spoke about the Omagh bombing and Mr Corrigan.

In reply to a question from Mr Rafferty, Mr Fox said he was aware that a man called 'Mooch' Blair was a well known subversive in Dundalk, but he did not know that Mr Keeley was a driver for this man.

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