Peter Keeley, who uses the pseudonym Kevin Fulton, is a British agent from Newry, Northern Ireland, who allegedly spied on the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) for MI5.
He subsequently became friendly with Patrick Joseph ‘Mooch’ Blair, who was on-the-run in Dundalk in relation to an improvised mortar attack, and eventually Fulton was accepted into the IRA as a volunteer.
[2] During the tribunal, lawyers acting for ‘Mooch’ Blair put it to Fulton that their client had not inducted him into the IRA in the 1980's and that he was considered a "gofer" who's main function was to carry out menial tasks.
[4] In one incident, Fulton was questioned on responsibility for designing firing mechanisms used in a horizontal mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) armoured patrol car on Merchants Quay, Newry, County Down, on 27 March 1992.
His lawyers asked the British Ministry of Defence to provide him and his family with new identities, relocation and immediate implementation of the complete financial package, including his army pension and other discharge benefits, which he had been reportedly promised by the MoD for his covert tour of duty.
She claims to have been wrongfully arrested and falsely imprisoned during a three-day period in 1994 following a purported attempt by the IRA to assassinate a senior detective in East Belfast.
[6][7] On 26 November 2013, it was reported that The Irish News had won a legal battle after a judge ruled against Keeley's lawsuit against the newspaper for breach of privacy and copyright, by publishing his photograph, which thereby also, he argued, endangered his life.