-Caveat Lector- CIA 'tried to buy IRA ceasefire' by Phelim AcAleer and Kevin Dowling A FORMER member of Bill Clinton's security staff has alleged that the American government backed a Central Intelligence Agency scheme to buy off the IRA to encourage a ceasefire in Northern Ireland. L Douglas Brown, a former Arkansas state trooper and CIA contractor, claims in his new book Crossfire http://209.207.145.74/crossfire/ that the plan involved the establishment of electronics factories near the border to provide jobs for nationalists and channel money to the terrorist organisation. Brown also claims he was offered a well-paid job in the project as an inducement not to give evidence against Clinton in the investigation being conducted by Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor. The illicit funding claim was denied yesterday by Ken Livingstone, the Labour MP, who was a consultant to the scheme. But the left-wing MP for Brent East in London did corroborate key parts of Brown's story about the project, which was to use Russian satellite technology to develop mobile telephones. The plan was abandoned in 1996, after five years of secret planning and research, because of technical difficulties. Nancy Soderberg, formerly Clinton's key adviser on Ireland, was also involved. According to Brown's account, he was approached in 1996 by John McBrearty, a wealthy businessman who has close links to the American government and its agencies. Brown claims he was offered $300,000 to join Geosys, a firm controlled by McBrearty. He says he refused, because he believed it was a bid to dissuade him from giving evidence on Clinton's womanising. In the book he reproduces a written job offer from McBrearty, which said that Geosys would build a number of large factories south of the border. It added: "What we are looking at here is jobs for the boys in exchange for a ceasefire, the peace process and a diplomatic triumph for the US." Brown says McBrearty had made it clear the plan was a two-edged sword - to provide jobs for nationalists and secretly fund the IRA. He declined the offer and subsequently made a number of accusations against Clinton, for whom he worked until 1992. Livingstone said this weekend that Brown's account distorted the Geosys project and denied that it was an attempt to channel funds to the IRA. The MP said he was approached by McBrearty because he had contacts in Ireland and in Russia. He said the plan was to build seven 60,000 sq ft factories, so as to create jobs in areas of high unemployment and remove one of the causes of conflict. McBrearty, who had an office at Pembroke Road, Dublin, wanted to create a mobile phone which would rely entirely on redundant Russian satellites to process calls. This would reduce the cost of phone calls as they would not be reliant on terrestrial lines. It would also make them immune from interference by governments. According to Livingstone, the scheme was in an advanced stage before it was shelved. The Russian defence ministry had given permission for its redundant satellites to be used. He said the project had huge potential. "They would have sold millions and the business was to be set up as a non-profit corporation with me as chairman. All the profits were to be ploughed into projects such as UN disaster relief and to alleviate famines," he said. "It was a peace phone. It means you can phone anybody in the world who has a similar phone without the state interfering or blocking it." The software was to have been created in Russia and the equipment assembled in Ireland. Livingstone said the American government offered to provide the necessary start-up capital. "The Clinton White House had agreed to put up between $100m and $150m. The link with them was Soderberg. It was made clear there would be no problem getting money from the White House," he said. Soderberg, now an American ambassador at the United Nations, was Clinton's main adviser on Ireland at the time. "Initially there would have been tens of thousands of jobs and then hundreds of thousands and these would all be people with good jobs who would then, it was hoped, put the war behind them. In the end the technology wasn't advanced enough," Livingstone said. McBrearty put a deposit on planes he would need to transport the material from Russia before the project collapsed. The American brought a prototype of the phone to Britain. Livingstone said: "He came to my house in north London and we set it up in my back garden and pointed it towards the Russian satellite, which is due south. I phoned Tony Benn and got through. Then I phoned a friend in Canada and it blew every electrical gadget in my house." 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