Was Mi5 behind the Blair Ditch project?

[Matthew X]

MI5 agent David Rupert tried to get the Continuity IRA (CIRA) to procure 
biological weapons, The Sunday Business Post has learned.
The breakaway republican group eventually declined Rupert's overtures, but 
the informant is believed to have succeeded in smuggling arms from the 
United States into Ireland, with the full knowledge of MI5, in 1997.
The American was operating as an agent for the British security service 
from a base in Donegal without authorisation from the Irish government. The 
Garda was also not informed.
This newspaper has seen a series of e-mails which were sent by Rupert to 
his MI5 handlers in which he outlined his extraordinary efforts to inveigle 
himself into the CIRA hierarchy between 1993 and 1998.
"I had outlined the weapons deals briefly in the US," Rupert wrote in one 
e-mail sent to his MI5 handler in 1998. "I talked about the computer deal 
and then the big one, biologicals. I said I understand they are quite easy 
to get in the US as a laboratory experiment type deal. They were interested."
The 51-year-old Rupert is now on the Witness Protection Programme in the 
United States waiting to give evidence in the trial of Michael McKevitt, 
the alleged leader of the Real IRA.
McKevitt is expected to go on trial early next year in the Special Criminal 
Court on charges of directing terrorism.
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MI5 agent David Rupert tried to get the Continuity IRA (CIRA) to procure 
biological weapons.....( Sunday Business Post, 2 Sep 02)
"I had outlined the weapons deals briefly in the US, I talked about the 
computer deal and then the big one, biologicals. I said I understand they 
are quite easy to get in the US as a laboratory experiment type deal. They 
were interested."
--MI5 spy David Rupert in an e-mail sent to his MI5 handler in 1998 on his 
attempts to convince the Continuity IRA to procure biological weapons from 
the United states