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MI5 betrayed us, claim informers; Duo who infiltrated IRA

set to sue State after payments were cut offEXCLUSIVE

LIAM CLARKE

5 February 2013

Belfast Telegraph

A LAWYER acting for a former spy who worked inside the IRA has accused the

Home Office of trying to bully his client and other agents out of taking legal

action against the State.

Martin McGartland has been left penniless after MI5 stopped a standing orderit was paying to him and his partner Jo last month.

The news comes as Raymond Gilmour, another Troubles-era police agent and

supergrass, was refused any help by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a

secretive body set up to examine complaints against the intelligence services.

The IPT refused to explain its decision and told him there was no appeal.

Both men have suffered posttraumatic stress disorder and wake up screamingfrom nightmares in which republicans track them down.

In the case of Mr McGartland, the nightmare has already come true twice

already.

He has been left disabled, and his partner Jo has been his fulltime carer since

1999. That was the year he was hunted down and shot while living under a

new name in Whitley Bay in Tyne and Wear, England.

His double identity was revealed over a speeding charge. He was eventually

acquitted.

Mr McGartland was already suffering from injuries he sustained jumping from

a third floor window to escape an IRA interrogation squad that kidnapped him

in 1991. After the shooting Mr Mc Gartland was advised by MI5 not to claim

State benefits, such as invalidity benefit, because he would have to reveal his

identity to explain his injuries

creating a danger of him being traced again.

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