Reply #4: So "they could then introduce counter-measures"

[Nevernose]

I thought it smelled like bullshit, too, and it probably IS bullshit, but the following section is so incredibly stupid that it could only have been pulled off by American intelligence agencies.

...he had flown to New York, met FBI and MI5 agents and was given money to buy an infra-red device to be used to set off IRA bombs.
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"They knew the IRA was looking at the technology. By supplying the equipment, they thought they could stay one step ahead of the IRA," Mr Fulton told the IoS yesterday.

...Matthew Teague claims FBI sources have confirmed Mr Fulton's trip to the United States.

The IoS has also spoken to a republican who was a senior IRA member in the early 1990s. He confirmed that Mr Fulton had introduced the IRA to the new technology and that the IRA shared this with "like-minded organisations abroad".