In 1999 a car used by Lynch, which took Adams and McGuinness to meetings with the Provisional Irish Republican Army, was found to contain an MI5 bugging device. Mo Mowlam had personally sanctioned the listening and tracking device found in the vehicle, as she later confirmed in a television interview. MI5 later briefed the Sunday Times that the £20,000 device had also been intended to help locate IRA weaponry.
In 1999, an MI5 eavesdropping device was found in a car driven by Lynch, which took Adams and McGuinness to clandestine meetings with the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Mo Mowlam personally gave her approval for the listening device, as she later confirmed on television. MI5 also informed the Sunday Times that the £20,000 gadget was intended to help pinpoint IRA arms.