An American chef last night (Friday) "categorically" denied having played any part in the alleged IRA raid on Special Branch offices at Castlereagh on St Patrick's Day last year.
Speaking from his New York home last night Larry Zaitschek claimed that elements of Northern Ireland's intelligence community were attempting to blame him for something he insists he had nothing to do with.
Mr Zaitschek asks why, if as alleged, he was an IRA 'super mole' in Castlereagh, he would have taken his four-year-old son along with him to use the police station's gym on the night of the raid.
The Polish-American chef last night further revealed that he had been invited to a luncheon with then chief constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan, for working overtime during the 2001 Drumcree crisis.
The former chef admits how he was humbled when he received a handshake from Sir Ronnie for "going above and beyond the call of duty", for working 18-hour days to ensure that police at Castlereagh had proper meals during the Drumcree stand-off.
And more than a year after his name was publicly linked with the raid on Special Branch offices, Mr Zaitschek questions why the Northern Ireland Office has still not applied for his extradition from the United States.
The 32-year-old father of one last night revealed that he has now initiated legal action in the Northern Ireland courts to force police to allow him to contact his son.
Mr Zaitschek questions why his estranged wife and son Pearse were taken into police custody last year and are now being hidden in a safe house somewhere in Northern Ireland.
"My life is in tatters," the former Castlereagh chef last night admitted.
"I have a son who I haven't seen or spoken to in a year. The police have my son and his mother hidden away somewhere and for what reason?
"I have tried to send birthday cards and Christmas cards to my son to let him know I'm thinking of him, but the police won't let him have them.
"They won't even let me speak to Pearse on the telephone because they say I'll somehow try and find out where they are.
"This is a four-year-old child who doesn't even know his father still loves him."
Mr Zaitschek says he does not know if he will ever recover from the ordeal of being publicly linked to the biggest security breach in the history of the state.
"There is all this talk in the newspapers that I am going to be extradited but no one has spoken to me or my solicitors in America," he says.
"They have made me out to be public enemy number one.
"My whole life has been totally and utterly ruined for something which I know absolutely nothing about."
