Secret Origin Files #1: Red Notice

Secret Origin Files #1: Red Notice 14 Apr 2009

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INTERPOL CASE FILE TR-06-05

Name: John David Bell

Known Aliases: John Gilpatrick, Martin O’Brien, Anton Petrov

Born: 04 Oct 1979, Port Manteau, Canada

(please see attached photographs in file for information on appearance)

Last Known Whereabouts: Incarcerated at HMP Maghaberry, Northern Ireland before attempted escape in 2002. Prior to this had primary residence in Londonderry.

Wanted For: Murder, attempted murder, membership in a terrorist organization, aiding and abetting a terrorist organization, import of controlled arms across national borders, theft, fraud, travelling under a false passport.

Notes: Bell first came to the attention of local police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at age 17 when he was reported as a missing person. Two weeks later, it was determined he had left the country and the case was temporarily dropped. RCMP interest in Bell returned, however, some weeks later when an autopsy on the recently discovered body of a former school friend of Bell’s turned up evidence of both foul play and a pregnancy.

By this time, Bell had created a new identity in Northern Ireland under the name John Gilpatrick, although this was not discovered for several years. Combined efforts by Canadian and European police forces at the time were unable to find him.

While living in Ulster, Bell/Gilpatrick became connected to a radical republican organizations with links to IRA diehards unable to reconcile to the ongoing political settlement. He was adopted into a family prominent in political circles within the Northern Irish Catholic community (the O’Brien’s of Derry – see file on mother Brigid [TS-14-77] and sister Kate [TR-09-11]), taking on another new identity, this time legally, as Martin O’Brien.

O’Brien deepened his ties with the radical republican community, coming to be a key operative of the Sons of Cuchulainn [see group file XK-11-21], a particularly violent youth movement involved in several incidents with its Loyalist counterparts. Over time O’Brien gained the trust of those in more senior republican terror groups and developed experience with procuring and using explosives without being detected. He is believed responsible for a string of bombings of RUC barracks and, on one notable occasion, the firebombing of a school. Unbeknownst to his radical colleagues, at this time he was also developing a connection to rogue groups within the Russian security apparatus, who apparently saw an advantage in destabilizing the nations of Western Europe wherever they could. (see files on covert Russian aid to Irish republicans [BG-55-18] Basque separatists [BG-55-19], Corsican separatists [BG-55-20], and German neo-Nazi groups [BG-55-21]) O’Brien’s Russian allies helped him acquire supplies and arms in return for his information on the violent republican splinter groups.

In late 2001, as it became harder to get arms in the wake of greater restrictions on terrorist financing and activities, O’Brien was dispatched to Colombia for negotiations on a strategic alliance with several small and medium sized leftist rebel groups there. It is reasonable to believe he was also tasked with providing intelligence on said groups to his patrons in Russia, as he travelled to South America under an illegally obtained but seemingly valid Russian passport bearing the name Anton Petrov. O’Brien was aware that British police were beginning to build a case against him for prosecution, but was unaware of the advanced nature of the case against him and that the Home Office was aware of his trip to Colombia. On his attempt to return to the UK he was arrested at Heathrow and sentenced without trial under special counter-terrorism laws to an indefinite sentence, and was held at Her Majesty’s Prison at Maghaberry until August of 2002, when he was killed by a prison officer in self-defence during an escape attempt. Initially the coroner’s report indicated some inconsistencies between the body provided for examination and O’Brien’s medical records, but this issue was later settled on further review.

Current Status of Case File: Closed and archived. Rumours have circulated that Bell/O’Brien has somehow returned to Canada, but no merit to these claims can be found and no police service is actively investigating them.