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ReadNotify tracking journalists and their sources, or being used for disinformation ?

Following on from our updated Home Office whistleblowers hints and tips, here is an example of the use being made by the attempted "web bug" tracking of emails, apparently using the same Australian ReadNotify email tracking service which was used unsuccessfully by Hewlett Packard to try to spy on journalists and its own executives and insiders.

[ via Martin Ingram, Welcome To The Dark Side. ]
(N.B. the original blog post "The IPCC leak and the Sunday Times story." seems to have been unpublished, but it is still out there in the Bloglines syndication feed cache)

However, we are not convinced that the supposed screenshots from the ReadNotify service do actually reveal any hidden relationship between a Sunday Times journalist and somone in the Independent Police Complaints Commission, in regard to "leaks" etc. about the investigation into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, at Stockwell Tube station in the panic after the bomb attacks and attempted bomb attacks in London in July 2005.

See the Smoke & Mirrors blog:

"The connection between the IPCC & Mr Clarke."

The email details of Liam Clarke, the Sunday Times journalist seem plausible enough::

Reader #1

liam.clarke@sunday-times.co.uk

via a corporate internet gateway at News International, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire which owns the Sunday Times newspaper:

143.252.80.110 [woki1.newsint.co.uk]

Web browser User Agent: Moz/4.0 (MSIE 6.0; WinNT 5.1; SRV1;), implying the probable use of Windows XP computer.

However

Reader # 5 looks a bit suspicious

rachael.collins@ipcc.gsi.gov.uk

rachael.collin@ipcc.gsi.gov.uk

UPDATE 1st November 2006: see comment by John below, which rightly points out the missing "s" in the email address, i.e. collin rather than collin which casts further doubt on this entry.

Just in case these images disappear from the original blog, here is a copy:

2006_1029ipcc0001-small.jpg
- click for a larger image.
  • Rachael Collins is a Press Officer for the IPCC, whose contact details appear at the bottom of several IPCC Press releases e.g . 22 September 2005, For Immediate Release, IPCC Concludes Andrew Kernan Case:
    Rachael Collins, IPCC Press Officer on 020 7166 3142 or the out-of-hours duty press officer on 07717 851157.

    Rachael Collins
    Press Officer
    Independent Police Complaints Commission
    90 High Holborn
    London
    WC1V 6BH
    Tel: 020 7166 3142

    E: rachael.collins@ipcc.gsi.gov.uk


195.93.21.42 [cache-los-ab10.proxy.aol.com]

and

195.93.21.66 [cache-los-ac02.proxy.aol.com]

This is not normal for UK Government Secure Intranet (.gsi.gov.uk) users, who pop out of various Energis gateways to the internet.

e.g. gateway-201.energis.gsi.gov.uk [195.92.40.48]

GSI emails are also filtered for spam and viruses etc. by the third party Messagelabs service.


Why would an email, allegedly read at 08:48 (British Summer Time) on the 16th June 2006, a Friday, have been read on a computer system which is brreaking the rules for being connected to the Government Secure Intranet, by using AOL, without using a secure Virtual Private Network and firewall etc., which would have prevented the ReadNotify service from tracking the "web bugged" email.
?

Web browser User Agent: Moozilla

This is not normal for AOL users !

We suspect that even if the ReadNotify screenshots are genuine, that does not mean that the Rachael Collins IPCC entry is real, and so the whole foundation of this Smoke and Mirrors blog story seems to be suspect.

However, even if this were all genuine, what would this ReadNotify stuff actually show ?

It supposedly shows that an email with a hidden "web bug" graphic (and / orby use of an initial email read receipt etc.) , tracked by the ReadNotify service, was sent to several email addresses on 3rd June 2006, and that about half a dozen of the recipienst, either directly, or after having had the email forwarded on to them complete with the "web bug", insecurely read the email in HTML format, displaying the hidden graphic, allowing ReadNotify to sneakily glean some information about the proxy server gateway and the web browser which was used to read the email.

What relevance these June 2006 emails have to a Sunday Times story printed in January 2006 is a mystery.

Even if these ReadNotify screenshots did show that a Press Officer and a Journalist were in email contact with each other, which they do not, then so what - isn't that part of their normal activities ?

We remain sceptical of this "scoop", but it is an illustration of the dangers for journalists, bloggers and whistleblowers.

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Martin Ingram Aka Ian Hurst is a liar.Soldier of Fortune.Mercenary.Only interested in making money.He is a con-man who will sell his lies to anyone who will pay for them.
The person who calls himself Martin ingram but is in fact ex Int Corps SSgt Ian Hurst (known as rocky) is a liar of the highest order. His book STEAKNIFE is almost complete fiction, as are his assertions that Martin McGUINNESS was an agent of the state. He is dementedly lying completely about his past service in FRU. He only ever served in sleepy backwaters of the Province and never came face to face with anyone except low level eyes and ears agents. He never ran STEAKNIFE or even met him. In short, his book is a complete fabrication based on god knows what. He endangers the lives of serving and former soldiers as well as civilians with his ridiculous fairy tales. Hopefully he will appear in court at some of the current inquiries and investigations so he can be shown to be the liar he really is.

This message comes from http://www.jackgrantham.blogspot.com/


@ "Jack Grantham" - so what do you think about the Smoke & Mirrors blog allegations about the Sunday Times and the IPCC ?

What has "Martin Ingram" done to annoy you so much, that you have 2 web blogs devoted to him ?



Jack grantham, Tomy Coldicott, is the one and only " Frank Doherty " The Great Pretender,Frank is obsessed with Martin Ingram, here are link's to covert recordings of Frank, also a blog site that has exposed Frank as the Fraud he is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0bWdEUzxxA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAIz2VxHb28


@ Martin - the first posting on the Frank, Land Grabber & Bullshitter Extraordinaire." blog to which you refer, interestingly also has a reference to ReadNotify style email tracking:

Last week Martin Ingram received an email to his website, this email contained advice from a person, this person warned Martin ingram that.

[...]

The email address used tonycld1213@yahoo.com The email address has now been traced to Frank Doherty, Frank thought he was a smart arse, after Frank sent his email to Ingram's website he ( Frank ) received a number of emails offering him help ( to get dirt on Martin Ingram, Fulton & Rosenfeld, & Willie Frazer of FAIR. ) what Frank didn't know was the emails had a trace inside them. Frank has even revealed the names of his police and British Army contacts.

If the implication that Police and British Army contacts' email addresses are being successfully tracked, by ReadNotify style "web bug" or similar techniques, is true, then this breach of security needs to be sorted out as soon as possible.

It is a pity that these various blogs dedicated to "dishing the dirt on" "revealing the truth" about their dedicated targets, either have Comments turned off, or limited to registered Blogger users only - there appears to be plenty of scope for "lively" discussions, which we might even be tempted to join in !


if you look very close at reader #5 you will see that the email address is for rachael collin, & not rachael collins, the first email address is said by the IPCC to never have existed, also Rachael collins has said she does Not know Liam Clarke, the email that Liam Clarke sent to this address was related to Martin Mc Guinness J118, the day before the story broke, Clarke did two stories in the Sunday Times, on the same day, one to rubbish the document that Martin Ingram had, Clarke did not put his name to this story, the other story he did, he agreed that Mc Guinness was indeed an Informer, you must remember Clarke is doing a book, the main thrust of his book was this same document,


@ John - well spotted !


Martin Ingram Aka Ian Hurst is the biggest bullshit artist on this planet.


@ Tony - that is a bold claim - there are many other candidates for that title.

Do you have any evidence to back it up ?


For the record I do not know Rachel Collins and she is not a source of mine. The only time I have ever sent her an e-mail was after I read the Smoke and Mirrors blog. At that point I e-mailed her asking her what it was all about. I have not recieved a reply.
I sent an e-mail to the bogus Rachel Collin address at the same time but it bounced back.
These claims are indeed bullshit.
It is also claimed about that I wrote two stories in the Sunday Times about J118, putting my name to one and not the other. This is not true. My name appeared on both stories and they did not contradict each other. One said the J118 document was almost certainly a fake. The other discussed the reasons some people thought that McGuinnness might be an informer and might believe the document.
Again for the record my worrking assumption is that the document is a fake and that McGuinness is not, and never was, an informer. However he was in contact with British intelligence for many years, and has admitted as much. As a result of his value as a contact he may well have been given some protection.
I am not working on any book claiming he is an informer or any book based on the J118 document. In fact I am not currently working on any book at all.
My wife Kathy Johnston and I have already written a biography of Martin McGuinness entitled "From Guns to Government" in which we briefly discuss the theory that he was an informer but discount it.


@ Liam - thanks for the clarification.

Have you looked through your emails to see if you were sent a ReadNotify tagged email ?

You may need to view the full message headers and body in plain text, not HTML.


It seems that ReadNotify has been used to help to track down someone involved in the recent Congressman Foley scandal in the USA, something which seems to have had adverse consequences for the whistle-blower, who has lost his job.

http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/13991763.html

http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/10/24/who-is-behind-stopsexpredators/


Liam Clarke said:

"It is also claimed about that I wrote two stories in the Sunday Times about J118, putting my name to one and not the other. This is not true. My name appeared on both stories"

Here is the link to the other Liam Clarke story, His name is Not on it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1507-2210039-3048,00.html


This is the story that Liam Clarke did put his name to, let's see you get out of this one Liam !!!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2765-2209998,00.html



These links aren't working for me. Perhaps they are out of date.
However I most certainly did put my name to both articles. It appears on them both on the paper I bought and on the Times Newspapers Editorial database.
Why would I not?
If it was omitted from a story on the website I know nothing about that.
I have pasted both stories from the database below.
++++++++++++
Headline: Security experts discredit claim that McGuinness was MI6 spy
Byline: Liam Clarke
Source: Sunday Times
Issue Date: Sunday June 04, 2006
Page: Eire News 1
Story Text:


A DOCUMENT purporting to show that Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator, was an agent for MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service, is a fake, according to senior security sources.

It was obtained by Martin Ingram, a former agent handler with the British Army's force research unit, with the help of Kevin Fulton, a disgruntled former agent who is trying to pressurise his spymasters into paying him a pension.

The document was offered to the Sunday World and The Observer by a journalist who has worked extensively on stories with an intelligence angle. The Observer decided not to run it, neither did The Sunday Times, which obtained the document independently.

Ingram believes it is genuine, but last night Fulton said he knew nothing about it and had no idea whether it was authentic or not.

Ingram said the source of the document was a Special Branch officer who had worked with Fulton. Although Ingram had never met the officer, he had seen him leaving the document at a "dead letter box"
or secret pick-up point.

"I am satisfied by the authenticity of this source, who has provided useful information in the past," Ingram added. He gave the officer's name to The Sunday Times for purposes of authentication. He had been told the officer could not be contacted because he was on holiday abroad.

Inquiries have confirmed that no detective using the name mentioned by Ingram is serving with Special Branch or CID. Neither is this person on the electoral register nor in the phone book. A uniformed constable with a similar name is serving in Northern Ireland but he said he knew nothing of Fulton, Ingram or MI6.

The name was not included on a list of RUC "handlers" that Fulton had previously given to The Sunday Times. This indicates the name, like the document, is a fabrication.

There were no security markings on the document, as would be usual with secret papers. Ingram said there had been MI6 classification on the original document, but this had been removed to protect the source. Ingram, who lives abroad, refused to make the originals available and turned down a Sunday Times offer to fly him to the UK to recover them.

The McGuinness affair may be linked to Fulton's campaign to force the British Army to pay him a pension and a lump sum for the time he was an undercover agent in south Armagh.

In the past he has provided useful intelligence, even giving a possible warning on the Omagh bombing, but Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the former RUC chief constable, has said he is "an intelligence nuisance".

This was a reference to an incident when Fulton burnt a vehicle kitted out with expensive bugging and tracking devices that he had been given for spying missions.

In another incident he sent MI5 on a wild-goose chase looking for IRA arms across the UK. The cost of this exercise, motivated by a dispute with his handlers, was estimated at Pounds 2m (E2.9m).

The bogus document at the centre of the McGuinness affair purports to show McGuinness, code named J118, and an MI6 officer referred to as G, planning a series of proxy bomb attacks on British Army checkpoints across the province. The attacks, which took place at the end of 1990, claimed six lives.

The document is a transcript of a conversation but MI5, MI6, military intelligence and RUC Special Branch reports only ever contain summaries of what is said. "It is like no report I have ever seen,"
said a senior intelligence officer. He added that, to his knowledge, McGuinness did not work for MI6.

McGuinness in new spy claims, page 5


Headline: McGuinness hit by new spy claims
Byline: Liam Clarke
Source: Sunday Times
Issue Date: Sunday June 04, 2006
Page: News 12
Picture Caption: McGuinness at an IRA funeral. Gilmour suspects the hawk was
in fact a British agent who protected him and promoted
other infiltrators to positions where they could do most
damage. Photograph by Pacemaker;Gilmour: infiltrated IRA Story Text:


The document that first raised suspicions was a forgery, but new sources are coming forward to allege the IRA leader was linked to MI5, says his biographer Liam Clarke Sunday Times Northern Ireland Editor.

RAYMOND GILMOUR, a "supergrass" who infiltrated the IRA early in the Troubles, used to wake up screaming after nightmares that Martin McGuinness was about to shoot him. Now he suspects his life was protected by his former IRA commander and that McGuinness, like him, was a British agent.

"I could never understand how I was allowed to run so long and do so much damage.

Now I can see McGuinness was looking out for me," said Gilmour, who penetrated the IRA and the smaller INLA between 1977 and 1982.

Gilmour is not alone in his suspicions. A retired Special Branch detective has said he believes McGuinness, now a Sinn Fein MP, worked for MI5, the security service, under the codename Fisherman. Others have claimed Fisherman was someone else close to McGuinness.

All over Northern Ireland observers are now reassessing the career of McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator and a former chief of staff of the IRA.

He was once seen as a leading hawk, but many republican veterans now point to the "charmed existence" enjoyed by McGuinness.

He has held every senior position in the Provisional IRA since its inception.

While those around him were killed or jailed, he was never shot or injured and has never served a long prison sentence. Supergrasses such as Gilmour were never asked to testify against him.

The speculation over his links with the British were sparked by a document that allegedly showed McGuinness worked for MI6, the secret intelligence service. In Londonderry, graffiti have appeared interlocking the abbreviations PIRA and MI6.

The allegations were denounced by McGuinness as "hooey of the worst kind" and he said he was "a million per cent confident no one will ever produce anything against me".

Paradoxically, while speculation over McGuinness has grown, it now seems clear that the document is a forgery.

It was given to Martin Ingram, a former military intelligence officer, who believes it is genuine.

It purports to show McGuinness, referred to by the codename J118, planning a series of bomb attacks on army checkpoints across Northern Ireland with an MI6 officer codenamed G. The attacks, which took place at the end of 1990, claimed six lives.

"Everyone will go along with it. It's right up their street," says J118, after which G asks: "This will leave no questions in doubt, you know that?" J118 replies: "I know our fella ... has everyone geared up for it. He thinks it's his idea."

The document appears to date from 1990, but MI6 was not allowed to run agents in Northern Ireland after 1979. Even if it had made an exception for a senior figure such as McGuinness, it is hardly credible that an MI6 officer would not only plan such carnage but even write an official report documenting the fact.

Ingram was told a named "serving Special Branch officer" was the source of the document, but The Sunday Times has established that no detective of that name works in Northern Ireland.

Security sources add that notations such as J118 are not used by any of the intelligence services.

"It is like no report I have ever seen," said a senior intelligence officer, who added that, to his knowledge, McGuinness had not worked for MI6.

In the past, claims that senior republican figures worked for the British were routinely dismissed by the IRA as "black propaganda".

Recently, however, observers have become more ready to countenance them. Denis Donaldson, a senior Sinn Fein administrator, and Freddie Scappaticci, the IRA's deputy head of security, have both been unmasked as informers.

Scappaticci disappeared after it emerged he was the highly placed agent codenamed Stakeknife.

Donaldson was murdered, apparently by republicans, while taking refuge in a remote cottage in County Donegal earlier this year.

Rumours over McGuinness have been given added impetus by his contacts with MI6 in secret talks with the government before the peace process came into the open.

He had a hotline to Michael Oatley, MI6's head of anti-terrorism operations between 1985 and 1991. Oatley had negotiated an IRA ceasefire in 1974-5 through secret meetings with the IRA's army council. After this deal broke down, he left a secret channel of communication with two intermediaries in Londonderry, Brendan Duddy and Denis Bradley, through whom messages could be passed to the IRA and to McGuinness personally.

However, Oatley did not meet McGuinness until February 1991, shortly before he retired, when they talked for three hours. This was a crucial meeting in the lead-up to the first IRA ceasefire in 1994.

Those who have looked at McGuinness's career closely note that, far from being the IRA hawk of republican legend, he wound down the campaign in the area under his command far sooner than anywhere else.
He also presided over an organisation riddled with informers, many of whom he had promoted to positions of influence while he operated secret channels of communication with the British.

His accommodation with the British may have dated back decades. In a
1995 interview, Sean MacStiofain, the Provisional IRA's first chief of staff, claimed to Anthony McIntyre, a former republican prisoner, that McGuinness was lobbying for a ceasefire as far back as 1972.

IRA veterans and Ingram agree with Gilmour that McGuinness often promoted police and army agents in the terrorist organisation to positions where they could do most damage. One example is Frank Hegarty, who was suspected of being an informer but who was promoted to a position where he was in charge of hiding imported Libyan weaponry.

After the weapons were seized, Hegarty was given a new life in England by his handlers but returned home and was shot dead after a series of phone calls with McGuinness.

Suspicion was also aroused in 1979 when Brian Keenan, a terrorist who was running a bombing campaign in Britain and Northern Ireland, was arrested after being flagged down by McGuinness on the motorway and having a brief conversation with him.

Keenan at the time claimed McGuinness had betrayed him, but he never pursued the matter after being released from jail.

There are times when McGuinness's value to the British -whether as a political contact or something else -appears to have saved him. In November 1994, for instance, Operation Taurus, a police investigation in which three witnesses were prepared to implicate him for directing terrorism, was halted.

In the police file, there is a note pointing out that McGuinness would shortly be in talks with the government about the future of Northern Ireland.

For some republicans, this political value, underlined by his hotline to Oatley, may be enough to explain why McGuinness has seemed protected.

For others, the questions over the true nature of his links to the British will not stop.


It's worth a mention to all the spy watchers out there, that there is a libel case in the pipeline for the courts, a Sunday Times journalist names his source for a story, another journalist from another paper, this same Times journalist has pooped all over a number of people, now they are all waiting to give evidence against him. A journalist should check the facts, ( not write what he thinks is the truth, or just to bully someone ) Someones credibility is going to take a nose dive. It's a murky world with spy's & informers. ( especially when new ones are exposed in court. )


Out of curiosity I checked NUZHOUND the site that records all the Media reports on NI affairs.

Liam Clarke appears to be wrong in this respect. Indeed I remember Kathy Johnston ( His wife ) starting a thread on Slugger Otoole about source protection. Martin Ingram made one post challenging both Johnston and clarke about these matters and the response was not forthcoming. I.E They started the thread and then refused to participate.

Liam is clearly rattled on these matters. My understanding is Read Notified is authenticated for court use! clearly somebody from Clarkes computer sent this e mail . It is upto the readers to judge who did it but Clarke is not well respected in the Journalist world. He recently named Hugh Jordan as a SOURCE in legal papers yet he says he protects sources in same breath.

He clearly is a man who tells lies, the papers did not contain his name, I have checked and for him to claim otherwise is a clear lie? what else is he lying about.

Dont be silly Liam and stop digging a deeper hole here, you should concentrate on your legal action defending your inaccurate reporting of Peter Kerstin, did your MI5 Handler ask you to carry that Falsehood? thought so .LOL


@ Intelligence Insider -

My understanding is Read Notified is authenticated for court use! clearly somebody from Clarkes computer sent this e mail .

Please clarify exactly which email tracked by ReadNotify you are talking about.

The graphic published on the Smoke & Mirrors blog above does not show which computer originated the ReadNotify tracked email.

ReadNotify does offer a service, by mutual prior agreement between, say, a company and one of its suppliers, whereby receipt of an order or invoice etc. via email might well hold up in court.

However, using it in a sneaky attempt to track emails in secret looks impossible to prove.

Even ReadNotify themselves only give a "probability" rating in their tracking reports, and many email systems simply will not register i.e. they block the "web bug" graphics and ignore the optional, not mandatory, read / display receipts requests.

Even when ReadNotify appears to work, it often only reveals the IP address to the level of an Internet Service Provider (like AOL) or Corporate (like News International) or Government (like the UK Government Secure Intranet) Proxy server, and not an individual computer behind the Proxy server / Internet gateway.

Going to court with only a few, easily forged, screenshots of alleged ReadNotify reports must surely be a waste of time ?


I understand that these and OTHER receipts have been authenticated and a sworn statement prepared for court use. Liam knows that a case is pending because he received legal papers last week? is that not true Liam?

In respect of the court case, these papers form a very, very small part of the claim.

The fact is an e mail was sent from Clarkes computer about J118 martin McGUINNESS and it WAS OPENED 100% on the secure Govt server by a NOW DEFUNCT email address by Proxy to a AOL account.

The court will be informed as to the ID of that AOL account and that will be very revealing I assure you.

The fact that Liam is a repeat Liar will undoubtedly count against him, this e mail about McGuinness was sent from his computer just like the one to his legal team was. Both were tracked and both can and will be authenticated.

Liam , I am told does not believe the e mail is fabricated, he believes and has suggested someone else sent the offending e mail.

The last senetence says it all, someone else sent it not me?

you make up your own mind.Cos the courts will.


Intelligence Insider.

PS. I note that Liamn has not responded to the protecting Sources issues raised earlier. My prediction is he wont, nor will he come back upon the Newshound aspect because he has been caught out telling Porkie Pies.He told porky Pies about kerstin and will no doubt lose his job over this, his stock within journalism is at Zero, the Irish News and others had to print a public retraction of one of his recent stories because of factual errors .

Come on Liam lets debate these issues nobody is watching? EXCEPT half of all Northern Ireland Hacks. LOL


@ Intelligence Insider -

The fact is an e mail was sent from Clarkes computer about J118 martin McGUINNESS and it WAS OPENED 100% on the secure Govt server by a NOW DEFUNCT email address by Proxy to a AOL account.

Unless someone has been breaking the rules and the standard configuration for, say, remote access to the IPCC's email system via the Government Secure Intranet, then that seems unlikely.

If true, that is a breach of security which should already have been investigated.

A read receipt which says "opened" or "displayed" does not necessarily prove that an email was actually read - it could have been "opened" by an automatic anti-virus scanning or junk email spam filtering system.

How do you know that this did not happen when, presumbly, the IPCC email server "bounced" the ReadNotify tracked email sent to a non-existant account i.e. "rachael.collin" rather than "raechel.collins @ ipcc.gsi.gov.uk as the screenshot graphic appears to show ?



The court will be informed as to the ID of that AOL account and that will be very revealing I assure you.

Have you secured the cooperation of AOL for this Communications Traffic Data, or is this by inference from the same AOL screename being used in emails or AOL discussion groups ?

ReadNotify claim that their email "web bug" tracking can also work with Microsoft Word .doc and Adobe .pdf email attachments and, with emails which have been forwarded to others with the "web bug" (hidden and obscured 1 pixel graphic called via HTML from ReadNotify's servers) still attached.

However, you need to pay for the premium rate service for this to work sneakily, and, obviously, read receipts will not go back to ReadNotify from forwarded emails.

Or are you saying that a ReadNotify tracked email was sent from Liam Clarke's computer, e.g. in the format

blog@spy.org.uk.readnotify.com

and someone else has managed to get access to the ReadNotify tracking reports account ?

For those of us not so well informed, is there a URL link which explains who Peter Kerstin is ?


The email did exist at that time, it does not exist today.

The email was sent from Clarke`s computer.

Peter is a well known property developer in Belfast, one of the biggest. Clarke wrote a few pieces claiming information proving Peter was funded by the IRA.

The story has no merrit and is untrue, Peter is suiing and the Times are very very anoyed at Clarke for this story which was and is widely accepted today to be without any foundation.It suited certain individuals at the time and had a political edge.

Lets see what Clarke says when comes back, I understand the most sensitive evidence is being withheld for court, I would do the same.

Insider.

PS.

Did you check Nuzhound to see clearly Clarkes disinformation?


The Smoke & Mirrors blog now seems to have re-edited their original post
"The connection between the IPCC & Liam Clarke.Sunday Times. ( some of the computer data )"

and the graphics of alleged screenshots from the ReadNotify system.

The "detailed evidence" graphical
image (published above) has been replaced with a screenshot of an October email describing a change of private work email address by the Sunday Times journalist Liam Clarke, "for spam blocking" purposes.

The post has been edited to ask

"One must ask, Why did Liam Clarke change his email address ( Spam ) ?"

which seems to be a pointless question, unless it is meant to imply that "The Doctor" has been sending spam email to this old email address.

We are still not convinced by the Smoke & Mirrors blog.


Martin Ingram Aka Ian Hurst is a liar.Soldier of Fortune.Mercenary.Only interested in making money.He is a con-man who will sell his lies to anyone who will pay for them.
The person who calls himself Martin ingram but is in fact ex Int Corps SSgt Ian Hurst (known as rocky) is a liar of the highest order. His book STEAKNIFE is almost complete fiction, as are his assertions that Martin McGUINNESS was an agent of the state. He is dementedly lying completely about his past service in FRU. He only ever served in sleepy backwaters of the Province and never came face to face with anyone except low level eyes and ears agents. He never ran STEAKNIFE or even met him. In short, his book is a complete fabrication based on god knows what. He endangers the lives of serving and former soldiers as well as civilians with his ridiculous fairy tales. Hopefully he will appear in court at some of the current inquiries and investigations so he can be shown to be the liar he really is.


Nelson Mandela,Mi5 Agent Liam Clarke,The Times Newspaper and British Intelligence

It is unknown at the moment whether Liam Clarke is an Mi5 Agent or a Dummy or Both.He has lost his job as the Northern Ireland[Ulster] Editor for Sunday Times as the Times is closing down its Northern Ireland Operation.He works for Rupert Murdoch the owner of the Times Newspaper.As well as his journalism work for the Times he is involved in a Vendetta against Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness.As well as writing for the Times Newspaper he publishes his Vendetta Material at Cryptome.org, Indymedia, Wikpedia, Blogger.com and numerous other online publications including The Times.He is working closely with Martin Ingram Aka Ian Hurst and other persons unknown.Some of the Vendetta material is published in his own name but some of it is anonymous as you will see in these two links from wikiscanner.virgil.gr where he is updating these two web pages.
1.Martin Ingram[Ian Hurst]
2.Denis Donaldson

Mary Benson [was one of the many British Intelligence Agents who ran The Anti-Apartheid Movement]

Mary Benson was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, South Africa and was educated there and in Great Britain. Before the Second World War she was a secretary in the High Commission Territories Office of the British High Commission in South Africa. Between 1941-1945 she joined the South African women's army, rising to the rank of Captain and serving as Personal Assistant to various British generals in Egypt and Italy.After the war she joined UNRRA and then became personal assistant to the film director David Lean. In 1950 she became secretary to Michael Scott and first became involved in the field of race relations. In 1951 she became secretary to Tshekedi Khama, and in 1952, together with Scott and David Astor, she helped to found the Africa Bureau in London. She was its secretary until 1957 and travelled widely on its behalf. In 1957 she became secretary to the Treason Trials Defence Fund in Johannesburg. She became a close friend of Nelson Mandela, and assisted with smuggling him out of South Africa in 1962. In February 1966 she was served with a banning order under the Suppression of Communism Act and she left South Africa for London later that year.In London she continued to work tirelessly against apartheid, writing to newspapers and corresponding with fellow activists in South Africa. In April 1999 Mandela visited her at her home during his state visit to Britain and later that year an 80th birthday party was staged for her at South Africa House.Mary Benson died on 20 June 2000.Among her writings are South Africa: the Struggle for a Birthright, Chief Albert Luthuli, The History of Robben Island, Nelson Mandela: the Man and the Movement, the autobiographical A Far Cry and radio plays on Mandela and the Rivonia trial.

http://nelsonmandela2.blogspot.com/


@ Jack Grantham - what exactly are you alleging about Nelson Mandela and Liam Clarke ?

Your confusing blog posting does not seem to link them in any way, except through the dubious title.



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