A former army secret agent who infiltrated the IRA has blamed security
services for a break-in at his secret hideaway in England.
Kevin Fulton claims that highly sensitive information - including the names
of agents he recruited to spy for the British - were stolen in the raid.
Fulton, a former agent, is locked in a bitter compensation battle with the
Minister of Defence and is fighting a court injunction banning him telling
secrets about his time in army intelligence.
He claims that his telephone was also bugged.
The Metropolitan Police has been called in to investigate the claims of
break-in at his home last week.
Agent Fulton claims that a notebook with the names of a number of other
agents he recruited within the nationalist community to infiltrate the IRA,
were stolen.
He also claims that a number of covert audio tapes were taken from an
envelope he had filed away for his court hearing.
Fulton, who spied on the Provisional and Real IRA for military
intelligence, MI5 and Special Branch, is the agent who sparked off the
inquiry by Northern Ireland police ombudsman Nuala O'Loan into the RUC
investigation of the Omagh bomb.
Fulton - not his real name - said the tapes stolen included damaging
conversations with his police handlers and an MI5 agent prior to an 1992
attack on police in Newry in which police woman Colleen McMurray was killed
by an IRA mark 12 mortar.
He claims he passed on information about the IRA's new horizontally fired
weapon, but couldn't say where it was to be used.
Another conversation is said to be with senior police and handlers after
the 1998 Omagh bomb attack at which he alleges he was offered £20,000.
Fulton said he feared that the tapes and notebook had been taken by
security services to thwart his case for compensation.
"I knew someone had been snooping around the house. I even had the phone
company check the line because I knew the line was tapped.
"It was being tapped from the outside, and their engineers found the wires
leading to my connection had been tampered with.
"I got the landlord of my property to admit that someone had been in the
house without my knowledge.
"The key was handed over but I've yet to find out why.
"But I know that the police are treating this as burglary and unlawful
entry."
