Agents hijack army website

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Sunday Times
Adam Nathan, Defence Correspondent



TWO disgruntled former army intelligence agents have caused a security alert after hijacking a military website. The men were able to take control of the site’s e-mailing facility shortly before Christmas after the Intelligence Corps apparently failed to renew its subscription.

When recruits send e-mails inquiring about jobs with the corps via its website, the men send back messages claiming that the unit is “responsible for the murder of innocent civilians and the direction of terrorism”.

The men, Kevin Fulton (a pseudonym) and Sam Rosenfeld, formerly worked for the Force Research Unit (FRU), a covert branch of the Intelligence Corps set up to infiltrate Northern Ireland paramilitary groups. The FRU, later renamed the Joint Services Group (JSG), has been linked to murders by loyalist terrorists.

Both men claimed last week that they had been abandoned by their military intelligence handlers and that their lives were in danger from republican terrorists seeking revenge. They said the reason for hijacking the website was to draw attention to their treatment by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

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