Ex-agent faces jail if he reveals NI secrets

A British army agent who claims soldiers plotted with terrorists is facing a new jail threat if he reveals details of his secret life, it emerged tonight.

Sam Rosenfeld, aged 42, has been warned against giving his MP details of his case against the UK's Ministry of Defence.

But the English-born builder, who spent three years spying on the IRA for the shadowy and ultra-secret Force Research Unit, pledged to fight the restrictions.

He said: “I will challenge everything they have done and I’m prepared to go to prison if necessary to disclose this information.”

The former operative wants to go public about his role in Northern Ireland’s dirty war.

He fled to the United States earlier this year to seek political asylum amid fears he would be locked up for writing to the Queen about alleged security force collusion with paramilitary killers.

But he has come back to lodge fresh court papers as part of his increasingly bitter legal battle with British MoD chiefs trying to silence him over claims he was abandoned by intelligence officers.

Although an injunction has been lodged against him, Rosenfeld wants to tell his MP, British Energy Minister Stephen Timms, the full version of what allegedly happened.

But a letter from the UK Treasury Solicitor told him: “You have indicated that you intend to instruct your solicitor to disclose ‘all relevant material’ involving you and the Ministry of Defence to your Member of Parliament.

“To the extent that any of that material is material covered by the order of Mr Justice Clarke, it is the Ministry of Defence’s position that such action will constitute a further breach of that order by you.”

The agent demanded to know what the British authorities were trying to hide.