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‘Spy’ pastor threatens to release state secrets - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

A pastor who claimed to be an intelligence officer at the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) says he is fearful for his life after his cover "was blown."

In an interview on Power 102fm on Tuesday, Ian Brown says he will release confidential information to the public if he is killed.

He said he believes his life is now in danger and he has lodged sensitive documents with three attorneys who are instructed to release them publicly if he is killed.

He also said he would release the information if certain "righteous" people within the SSA were to be removed.

These are who he believes have integrity and will stand up for what is right.

"If today certain people are taken down, what I have in sealed envelopes will be unsealed by my lips so that the nation will know..."

Brown claims he is one of only three people who know what the documents contain.

On Saturday morning, some 100 officers raided Brown's Arima house and one of his churches at Caratal, Cumuto and seized two police uniforms and two wireless transmitters.

Brown later said he was an SRP officer appointed by three successive police commissioners, including the current officer holder and assigned to the SSA.

He believes his ousting is directly related to the March 2 SSA leadership shake-up where director Roger Best was sent on administrative leave and replaced by retired Brigadier General Anthony Phillips-Spencer after a National Security Council recommendation to Cabinet.

"Sir, I may die today. My brother was murdered because of what he was doing, that I was doing similarly. He was a police informant and he was shot dead, nine bullets okay? He never knew I was a police officer. My mother died the same year. That was 2022 I was talking about. She never knew I was a police officer involved in anything," Brown said on Tuesday.

Asked by host and Independent Senator Paul Richards if he believes releasing the information will destabilise national security and the country, Brown said no.

"Sir, this is going to strengthen the country. For the country to rise up and say we really want to stop crime and to solve things and have things going the right way. So it isn't going to mash up anything. It's going to join the nation."

Newsday did not get responses to Brown's statements from National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds, Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher and the Prime Minister.

Former National Security minister Brigadier General Carl Alfonso told Newsday he found the situation "very foolish."

"No spy says he's a spy to the general public. You don't do that.. I don't know if he's a spy to start with. I see where he was employed by the Ministry of National Security, he was employed working with Major Best who is just being relieved. So Major Best has to answer some questions," Alfonso said.

He said Best is the only one who can corroborate Brown's claims.

"I can understand if he's an SRP and that can be proven but who's going to say that he was a spy other than himself? I don't know."

Alfonso was also puzzled by Brown's th

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