8 August 2007
The Times
The British Government was acutely embarrassed when the Littlejohn brothers, arrested in Ireland for robbing a Dublin bank of Pounds 67,000, claimed to be spies carrying out a stunt designed to discredit the IRA.
Mr Peter Hughman, the London solicitor acting for Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn, said yesterday that the danger to their lives in Mountjoy jail had been increased as a result of the statement issued by the Ministry of Defence.
Mr Hughman said: "I am seriously concerned for their safety. Now that the ministry has publicly confirmed that they were involved in passing on information about the IRA, they will either have to serve the rest of their sentences in solitary confinement or run the real risk of being murdered."
Although the authorities were refusing to comment on the broader scale of the Littlejohns' operations in Ireland, they are believed to have been part of a much larger British intelligence network which had been built up gradually since the troubles began in 1969.
It is understood that the type of intelligence activities carried out by the Littlejohn brothers and other British agents in the Republic of Ireland have been severely curtailed, although a number of men whose cover has not yet been broken are thought to be still informing the British Government about IRA activities.
Demanding recall of Parliament, Mrs Bernadette McAliskey, MP, said yesterday: "The claims of the Littlejohn brothers may well prove a vital link in explaining several hitherto inexplicable events in the Irish Republic, for which the IRA have consistently denied responsibility."
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