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24 May 2007. The Phoenix has published a number of smears about sources of material published on Cryptome: Kevin Fulton, Martin Ingram, Sam Rosenfeld, and others who have exposed British murderous covert operations in Northern Ireland. Smears are common tradecraft of the spooks: a favorite is name an foe as a spy to breed suspicion and foster revenge killing. There are a dozen laughable errors in this hoot.


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From The Phoenix

www.phoenix-magazine.com

 May 18 - May 31, 2007

MI5 WIPES THE SLATE CLEAN

WHILE THAT Stormont love-in with Ian, Bertie, Tony and Martin was going on, more important things were happening behind the scenes. The MI5 securocrats long blamed by many for the destabilisation of all attempts at power-sharing in the North, from Sunningdale onwards decommissioned their Irish black propaganda weapons.

In a move that surprised spook-watchers, the famous cyber-punk site www.cryptome.org was disconnected by its Arizona service provider on May 4. Cryptome was used since the 1990s to launch a number of cleverly-crafted MI5-inspired disinformation stories which rocked the Anglo-Irish peace process. These included a clever, politically driven campaign by outing Freddie Scappaticci as a British spy and his elevation to an importance that he never had in the IRA, lots of lies about Denis Donaldson and Stormontgate, and, more recently, faked claims that Martin McGuinness was a British spy.

The importance of cryptome.org in the scheme of things was that it was used as the vehicle for placing stories at a distance, i.e., planted where their provenance couldn't be checked. They were then brought back by encouraging newspapers to give them wider publicity and greater credibility. Thus Scappaticci was named as a spy called Stakeknife in The Sunday Herald (Glasgow) and The Sunday Tribune. This claim had been planted on www.cryprome.org. The Scappaticci story was a distraction operation at a time when British detectives under John Stevens were probing MI5 connections with the Pat Finucane assassination. Neither newspaper offered a shred of credible evidence to support the stories. 

Cryptome.org is run from their New York apartment by 72-year-old architect John Young and his wife. They claim they were taken off line by their NTT-owned Verizon internet service provider because they had recently publicised a minor procurement scandal in the US Coastguard.

There are three possibilities to explain this amazing cull of internet files and the removal of the black propaganda web-sites. The most likely is that Tony Blair, as a result of pressure from McGuinness and Adams, has called his spooks to heel and agreed to decommission the Dirty Tricks Brigade.

Despite the army of them (400 according to Peter Hain) presently moving into new £40 million quarters at Hollywood military base near Belfast, the internet closures appear to show that MI5 is not to play a significant role in Irish politics in the future.

Another possibility is that following a change in MI5 leadership, the new regime wants to alter tactics. Jonathan Evans took over in April as MI5 Director from Eliza Manningham-Buller who was criticised for her handling of 7/7 and the Forest Gate fiascos.

But another possibility remains to explain the sudden change of MI5 direction. On April 10 The Guardian, in a well-sourced report, said that MI5 was shredding secret papers on Ireland, including those they had demanded back from the Stevens inquiry team. So, perhaps Adams and McGuinness didn't influence Blair to rein in MI5. Maybe they are doing it themselves, with a new broom sweeping clean as part of Operation Cover-Ass. After all, Director Evans is an old Irish hand going back to the 1980s. He was in charge of MI5 operations in Belfast when the Dirty War was at its dirtiest.