Derry “supergrass” Raymond Gilmour’s new book, in which he makes further claims against Martin McGuinness, has been published.
In the book, entitled “What Price Truth?,” the Creggan man claims the Deputy First Minister trained him in anti-interrogation techniques while head of the IRA in Derry.
Gilmour has spent over 30 years living under a new identity in Britain after “grassing” on the IRA and INLA in Derry during the infamous “supergrass” trials in the 1980s.
For the past number of years, now age 53, he has waged a battle against his MI5 handlers.
He wants the British Security Service to pay for the £500,000 he claims it once offered him in compensation for putting his life on the line as agent for the Bristish Government.
Now, 15 years after his first book “Dead Ground” was published on his life as a covert RUC Special Branch agent inside the INLA/IRA, he has updated his manscript.
Raymond Gilmour.
It is understood a former RUC officer – who worked undercover in Northern Ireland for over 20 years – has published the book with legal assistance from a Belfast firm of solicitors.
Speaking earlier this year from his hideaway address in the south east of England, Gilmour said: “I have been thinking about doing this work for some time now.
“A lot has happened in the past 15 years since ‘Dead Ground’ was published.
“There are things that I never put in it which I will make public for the first time in the new book, ‘What Price Truth?’
“I was approached by a former British intelligence officer who convinced now was the time to tell all.’’
Gilmour said he was never asked to provide any information on McGuinness when it came to his “supergrass” trial of 35 INLA and IRA suspects which collapsed in 1984, the then Lord Chief Justice Lord Lowry dismissing his evidence as being “unworthy of belief.”
Gilmour first joined the INLA when he was 17 working as a covert agent for RUC Special Branch.
After a fallout, he left the INLA and later joined the IRA in 1980, passing back information on Provo players and operations.
However, two years later his cover was blown when police used information he supplied to recover a machine gun.
“I brought the INLA to their knees in Derry, I brought the IRA to their knees in Derry and I saved countless lives,” he said.
• “What Price Truth?” is published on Amazon Kindle.
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