Ian Hurst :Was The Sunday Times Involved In Computer Hacking ?

High Tec Touting

It has been suggested that some of those involved in the computer hacking scandal may have been working for Government agencies, So we would have a case of spies hacking spies and reporting back to MI5/6 and police special branch.

It has also been suggested that an email address of a Sunday Times journalist from Northern Ireland may have been involved in the hacking(with out his permission of course )so he may have been hacked so the hacker could hack others.........read more

http://stakeknife.blogspot.com/2011/11/high-tec-touting.html

Sean Hoare Whistleblower Found Dead Speaks Openly About Phone Hacking

http://themurdochempireanditsnestofvipers.blogspot.com/2011/07/hackgate-sean-hoare-speaking.html

Leveson Inquiry :NOW installed Trojan virus onto intelligence man’s family computer

Former British army intelligence officer Ian Hurst. Picture: Getty

Published on Monday 28 November 2011 15:10

The News of the World hacked into the emails of a former British Army intelligence officer in a possible attempt to find out information about the IRA double agent Stakeknife, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.



Ian Hurst told the hearing he learned this year that the paper installed a “Trojan” programme on his family computer in 2006 that allowed it to access his messages and other documents.

Mr Hurst served in covert Army units in Northern Ireland between 1980 and 1991 specialising in recruiting and developing agents within paramilitary organisations, the press standards inquiry heard.

He featured in a BBC Panorama programme broadcast in March this year which alleged that a fax containing extracts of his emails was sent to the Dublin office of the News of the World in July 2006, the hearing was told.

Mr Hurst said in a statement to the inquiry that the News of the World may have been trying to obtain information about the British intelligence agent within the IRA known as Stakeknife.

Panorama’s journalists told the former intelligence officer that the now-defunct Sunday tabloid hired a private investigator to target him, who in turn commissioned a specialist hacker - referred to only as Mr X - to access his computer.

Mr Hurst knew Mr X as someone who had served in the intelligence community in Northern Ireland and arranged to meet him to question him about these claims, the inquiry heard.

“He more or less charted the events from the middle of June 2006, he states for a three-month period, and all the documents he could access via the back door Trojan - emails, the hard drive, social media,” Mr Hurst said.

“He did not say this but the Trojan that we have identified would have allowed the webcam, so he could have actually seen me or my kids at the desk.”

Mr X said he infected the computer by sending an email from a bogus address and tricking Mr Hurst into opening the attachment, the inquiry heard.

But the former intelligence officer said he believed the virus actually came from a “trusted media contact from a well-known newspaper”.

“The type of Trojan which is deployed by newspapers or private detectives isn’t that sophisticated, and you have to open an attachment,” he said.

“The ones which would be used by governmental agencies would be, for instance, with a microdot, a full stop, so you wouldn’t need to open the attachment.”

Counsel to the inquiry, Robert Jay QC, said: “The unusual feature of your case is that the targeting of you is likely to have been not for the purpose of investigating issues relating to your personal privacy, but perhaps in a very different and in one sense sinister way, matters bearing upon your work in the intelligence community in Northern Ireland and any aftermath which followed from that.”

Mr Hurst replied: “I don’t think that’s a fair analysis. I think they were looking to obtain a commercial advantage as well.”

He told the inquiry that when police arrested Mr X in April 2009 they found the hacker had obtained his wife’s CV, pin number and documents connected to their telephone number and address.

Mr Hurst alleged that the police were involved in covering up the journalistic abuses and urged Lord Justice Leveson to require the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to provide him with “all intelligence of police corruption, including at the very highest level”.

“The MPS have let society down, they should be making a full disclosure to you,” he said.

Jane Winter, director of human rights charity British Irish Rights Watch, told the inquiry that Mr Hurst contacted her in July to tell her that emails she sent to him had been illegally accessed.

She said: “From the point of view of my organisation, we really rely on trust and confidentiality and we deal with people from all sides of a very difficult situation in Northern Ireland.

“When I first heard that these documents had been compromised, my first thought was if all the people we help hear about this, they will lose confidence in us through no fault of our own and that is a very chilling thought.

“It is a real issue that this could dent our reputation for confidentiality.”

http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/leveson_inquiry_now_installed_trojan_virus_onto_intelligence_man_s_family_computer_1_1987893

FRU :MP Patrick Mercer Denies Working For The FRU

http://cryptome.org/fru-mercer.htm

More on the murderous FRU:
http://cryptome.org/fru-portrait.htm

Patrick Mercer as MP and in FRU portrait.
Mercer denies the right photo is him.

Pat Finucane : IRA - Time For The Truth !

http://www.madden-finucane.com/douments/pat_finucane/14may03.htm

Kevin #Halligen :MI5 operation in Northern Ireland

Intelligence Online
Hired to spring the chief executive of Trafigura from jail in Abidjan, the Oakley company now finds itself under attack by the trader’s lawyer. Founder of the private security firm Red Defense International, Britain’s Kevin Halligen had until the first of September to respond to a suit filed by lawyer Mark Aspinall that called upon him to pay USD 1.3 million. He let the deadline pass and was thereby declared in default by the U.S. district court for the District of Colombia.
Intelligence Online reported in its 576th issue how Aspinall recruited Halligen, who took part indirectly in a MI5 operation in Northern Ireland, to help organize the release of his client, Claude Dauphin, founder of Trafigura, from the Maca prison in Abidjan. Dauphin had been arrested in Ivory Coast following the unloading of toxic waste by the vessel Probo Koala that had been chartered by Trafigura.

The rescue operation mounted by Red Defense, which involved using a Falcon corporate jet and South African mercenaries, was finally cancelled in February, 2007. Dauphin was released a few months later against payment of USD 198 million.

Following that episode, Aspinall and Halligen remained in contact and, in September, 2007, the lawyer invested USD 500,000 in two firms founded by Halligen in the United States, Oakley International Group (OIG) and Oakley Strategic Services (OSS). 

Six months later, he lent USD 250,000 to Halligen to replenish the coffers of the two firms, whose managing director was the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics, Andre Hollis. The latter is also a lawyer in the firm Van Scoyoc Associates.

Despite his investments, Aspinall never had access to the books of OIG or OSS, nor was his loan repaid. Under pressure from the lawyer to make good on his promise, Halligen instead left for Italy last December, and has yet to return.

His two companies declared bankruptcy and Aspinall, the only stakeholder who remained creditworthy, had to pay off their debts. To recover money he lost in the venture, Aspinall filed suit (1-09-cv-00655) against Halligen. But even if he wins his case, he probably won't get his money back.