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Date Posted: Sat, Aug 25 2007, 22:51:24 PDT
Author: www.ia-pl.org
Subject: From press reports
In reply to: From IPSC board 's message, "Blog names Francie Molloy" on Sat, Aug 25 2007, 22:39:29 PDT

21 August 2007

Liam Clarke, Sunday Times, writes 21 August, 2007:

Liam Clarke, Sunday Times, writes 21 August, 2007:
I know how you react to suggestions of self censorship but I really do think that Cryptome should refrain from speculation about the name of the person who David Simpson is planning to name.

I am aware who this person is but have not published their identity and have given no real clues to it. To be clear, I don't know one way or the other whether the person accused is a security force agent or not and I am not myself accusing them. Neither am I saying whether or not it is Francie Molloy. I wrote the story because of the likely political implications which such an accusation by a prominent DUP politician against a prominent Sinn Fein member would have for the power sharing government. The DUP and the Lutton family are confident but I have to keep an open mind.

As the case of Denis Donaldson shows, those identified as informants are still at high risk of murder if they continue living in the community. In Donaldson's, case his role was beyond doubt and he publicly admitted it, but that is not the case in this instance . Equally, there is a risk of loyalist attack for those accused of the murder of Protestants, or members of the security forces. So we need to be sure of our grounds before pointing the finger.

I know the argument that the truth will emerge if all points of view are openly debated. That is true if everyone keeps talking and does not produce weapons. The problem is that if someone is shot or forced from their home the debate ends for them.

The main thing was that I did the story because I knew the DUP believed it and it would be a political issue, not because I knew if the person accused was an agent. According to the News Letter today Nuala O Loan, the policing Ombudsman, is conducting an inquiry into whether the Lutton murder was properly investigated or whether there was a cover up for intelligence reasons. This is at the request of the Lutton family. She is usually good at getting to the bottom of things where the police are concerned though she has no powers over the army or MI5.

Here are the News Letter cuttings.

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news?articleid=3123148

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news?articleid=3123147

19 August 2007

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A sends:

This story was in today's Sunday Times. the politician and agent they are talking about is Francie Molloy, from Sinn Fein. The security services were able to recruit Francie after he compromised himself (sexual). Francie was recruited to work for the police -- RUC and MI5.

Francie Molloy

http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/Sunday_Times/arts2007/aug18_Lutton_murder__LClarke.php

August 18, 2007

DUP prepared to name prominent SF member who conspired in murder and then turned informer
By Liam Clarke, Sunday Times

The DUP is preparing to use parliamentary privilege to claim that a senior Sinn F�in figure conspired in the murder of a former RUC officer and was later recruited by police as an informer.

Whether the allegation is true or false, it will send shock waves through the Stormont power-sharing executive. Relations between the DUP and Sinn F�in have been excellent since the two parties entered government together last May.

David Simpson, the DUP MP for Upper Bann, is considering naming the Sinn F�iner in the House of Commons. "The person concerned was alleged to have been involved in other serious offences but was later recruited as an informer," he said yesterday. "The information that this individual provided was used to reduce the capabilities of the IRA."

The DUP have used parliamentary privilege on a number of occasions in the past to accuse people of being republican terrorists, and not always correctly.

The Sinn F�in politician now under suspicion is a well-known figure whose position is arguably as sensitive as that of Denis Donaldson, who was exposed as a police agent two years ago. Donaldson was later shot dead in Donegal.

The murder victim in the case referred to by the DUP is Frederick "Eric" Lutton, 40, a former part-time member of the RUC reserve who was shot dead on May 1, 1979 in Tyrone. Lutton worked as a caretaker for the National Trust and was killed as he got out of his car to lock the gates of their premises in Moy.

The father-of-two was a cousin of Simpson, and the MP has raised the case within the party. Several other senior figures in the DUP now know the details.

This weekend Lutton's family refused to comment on the case, which they hope will be re-opened by the PSNI's historical inquiries Team (HET). In an interview with the Belfast News Letter last year, his son Nigel said two masked IRA men had lain in wait behind pillars alongside the gates of Argory house in Moy.

"He opened the car door to get out and the two Provos came out from either side. They had Belgian FN assault rifles, really heavy-duty stuff, and they caught him between the door and the car. They just emptied high-velocity rounds into him."

He said that the family was threatened afterwards and told to leave the Annaghmore area where they still live. He was approached to join the UVF in order to get revenge but refused. Two men were arrested on suspicion of being the gunmen, but later released without charge.

A number of police officers have told DUP researchers that the Sinn F�in figure helped monitor Lutton's movements, a process known as targeting, as well as removing the weapons after the attack. The former police officers also say the politician was recruited as a police agent about two years later.

DUP sources say these officers are prepared to give evidence to the HET, and that several senior DUP figures are prepared to push the issue whatever the political fall-out. "We are confident that this person targeted Eric Lutton for murder, disposed of the weapons afterwards and was later recruited as a police agent partly because of being caught in a sexually compromising position and partly for other reasons," a party source said.

Simpson has received assurances from Sir Hugh Orde, the PSNI chief constable, and Paul Goggins, Northern Ireland security minister, that prominent people will not be protected from prosecution for serious crimes because of favours done for the police or intelligence services.

Earlier this year at the Northern Ireland committee at Westminster, Simpson demanded that there be no repeat of the Donaldson affair, "in which his role as an informant clearly played a part in the suppression of a criminal prosecution. If the team exposes a senior politician, the law should be allowed to run its course".

Speaking at a Sinn F�in rally in Belfast last weekend, Gerry Adams agreed that British agents who worked within Sinn F�in or the IRA should be investigated.

He said: "The British recruited, blackmailed, tricked, intimidated and bribed individual republicans into working for them and I think it would be only right to have this dimension of British strategy investigated also."

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