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William McGrath and Faith House, the concealed roots of the Kincora scandal. By Roy Garland.
Introduction. A lot has been written about William McGrath, especially of his role in the Kincora Boys’ Home scandal. McGrath was convicted for some of the crimes he committed at Kincora in December 1981. The mainstream media coverage has tended to focus on McGrath’s role at the home while ignoring his long track record as…
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Bombs, Spooks and Child Abuse, the sordid secret history of the DUP.
INTRODUCTION. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was founded by Ian Paisley in 1971. It became – and remains – the most popular and successful Unionist party in Northern Ireland. In the 1960s and 1970s Paisley preached that the Pope was spearheading a conspiracy against the Protestants of Ulster. In his mind, the Pope was the…
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ONE OF THE ‘GREATEST’. Jeffrey Donaldson was Jim Molyneaux’s personal assistant. Molyneaux was linked to a convicted Kincora child rapist, in a British Army document. Molyneaux led the Unionist Party, 1979-95.
Sir Jeffery Donaldson described James Molyneaux MP (later Lord Molyneaux of Killead), as one of ‘greatest’ politicians with whom he ever worked. Molyneaux led the dominant Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), between 1979 and 1995. The praise appeared on Donaldson’s official website. Donaldson served as Molyneaux’s Personal Assistant in the 1980s. The other figure Donaldson admired…
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Abuse of Privilege: the former DUP leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, wrongfully alleged that a Garda mole was involved in the murder of two RUC officers by the IRA. By Deirdre Younge.
In April 2000 Jeffrey Donaldson, the former leader of the DUP, stood up in the House of Commons and made the heinous allegation on live television that former Special Branch sergeant in Dundalk Garda Station, Owen Corrigan, had colluded in the murders of Chief Superintendent Harry Breen, Commander H Division, and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, while…
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s mentor was a sadistic child abuser. By David Burke.
1. RESIGNATION. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 2021-24, has been charged with historical sexual offences. He resigned as leader of the DUP on Friday, 29 March 2024. His wife has also been charged with aiding and abetting in connection with the alleged offences. The pair were arrested on Thursday…
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The ABC sex scandal, the darkest secret of Buckingham Palace. Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge were used as pawns in the cover-up of a transatlantic paedophile network.
The mainstream US and UK media is affording wall to wall coverage of the fact that a picture of the Duchess of Cambridge was altered. The issue is important, we are told, because it raises a question of trust. The issue of trust is not a new one. The Royals employ a cabal of deeply…
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The Kenova Report fails to appreciate Freddie Scappaticci’s true barbaric value to MI5. By David Burke
1. Scappattici, a sexually deviant, sadistic torturer and mass murderer. The Operation Kenova Inquiry took seven years to complete. It looked at a string of murders committed by Alfredo ‘Freddie’ Scappaticci. Scappaticci was a cold blooded killer without a single redeeming feature. He was an ideal asset for an organisation such as MI5. He lusted…
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Killusion by Deirdre Younge
This story, published in Village magazine in November 2016, provides details about the career of Peter Keeley, a British Intelligence mole in the Provisional IRA. Keeley wrote a book under the pseudonym Kevin Fulton. A pdf copy of Killusion can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. Some readers may find there is a…
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Deception – and a death foretold. By Deirdre Younge.
Deirdre Younge is a former journalist and Current Affairs Programmes Editor in RTE Television. She is now a writer and media production consultant. Part 1. Garda Sergeant Owen Corrigan, a victim of conflicting – and false – claims he was an IRA mole. This is a story about deception that runs through decades. It shows…
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“I run out into the hall and … it was just carnage” EA/2023/0267A. Review Essay by Christopher Stanley of “Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place” by Martin Doyle.
A Review Essay by Christopher Stanley of “Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place” by Martin Doyle. Published by Merrion Press (€24.99/£22.99 Hardback) 368 pages.. Christopher Stanley is Litigation Consultant, KRW LAW LLP, Belfast and was a Legal Aid Practitioner Group/Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Public Law Lawyer of the Year Nominee 2017…
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Judge a king by his courtiers. Jeffrey Epstein was a sexual blackmailer. Roy Cohn was one too. Both men raped children. Cohn was Donald Trump’s mentor. Trump still sings his praises. Epstein was also a friend of Trump. Cohn and Epstein may have been part of the same blackmail network. By David Burke.
Introduction. Donald Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was a paedophile who abused boys on both sides of the Atlantic, including a victim from Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, called Richard Kerr. Cohn selected Kerr in Belfast and had him trafficked to Venice for sexual abuse. The mere fact of the trip to Venice demolishes…
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The MI5 spy Margaret Thatcher wanted to extradite from Australia. He made her back down with a threat of revealing details of a series of scandals, including MI5’s involvement in the Kincora Boys’ Home child sex abuse scandal. By David Burke.
Peter Wright CBE, formerly of MI5, defeated Margaret Thatcher in a volcanic legal battle in Australia in the late 1980s. Thatcher tried – and failed – to injunct the publication of Wright’s book, Spycatcher, in Australia. The publication cast MI5 and MI6 in a deplorable light: little more than organisations riddled with traitors and immersed in…
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‘Get him’, the British Prime Minister ordered. By Kevin O’Connor.
Author and broadcaster Kevin O’Connor reflects on a declassified UK file about his fellow Limerickman, Sean Bourke. O’Connor is the author of Blake and Bourke & the End of Empire (2003), the story of Sean Bourke, the Irishman who staged one of the most audacious prison breaks in Britain’s history, that of George Blake. Blake…
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The CIA operatives who confessed to their part in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 60 years after JFK’s murder, President Joe Biden, seeking re-election, refuses to release crucial CIA files.
By David Burke. Introduction. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in broad daylight by a team of shooters in Dealey Plaza, Texas, nearly 60 years ago. President Joe Biden was meant to release a collection of classified CIA files connected to the JFK murder last year but opted instead to suppress them. If, as expected, Joe…
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Relationships between the British Authorities and Loyalist paramilitary organisations. A supplement to ‘A State in Denial’, taking the story of collusion to the 1990s. An ebook by Margaret Urwin.
Margaret Urwin (née Kelly) has worked with Justice for the Forgotten, the organisation representing the families and survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, since 1993 and, for more than a decade, with the families of the victims of other cross-Border bombings. Justice for the Forgotten affiliated with the Pat Finucane Centre in December 2010.…
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Kincora’s Darkest Secret.
By David Burke. Kincora Boys’ Home was demolished last year. One part of the complex, however, was taken down and removed decades ago, the ‘tool shed’ at the rear of the premises. It hid what I fear is the darkest of Kincora’s many black secrets, one MI5, the RUC – and now – the PSNI,…
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Fergal Keane – The Madness – A review by Kevin O’Connor.
Fergal Keane was born in London, grew up in Dublin and Cork. He went into journalism and became the BBC’s foreign correspondent. His work earned him numerous awards, but at a cost to him personally. He was the overall winner of the Amnesty International Press Awards in 1993 and won an Amnesty television prize in…
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Running With Wolves. Britain’s Northern Ireland Secretary of State is setting up a full judicial inquiry into the Omagh bombing. This ebook explains the background to the atrocity, and outlines the questions the former RUC will face over their failure to prevent the massacre. MI5 appears undaunted. By Deirdre Younge.
Introduction: Peter Keeley and the Omagh Bomb. Q – Can I put it to you: he is a bit of a Newry wide boy who was involved in the IRA …And the reason he was involved in the IRA was because he was a Newry wide boy? A – Most likely. Q – And the…
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Kenova Part 2. By Deirdre Younge.
‘He was the Golden Egg, something that was very important to the Army. We were terribly cagey about Fred’ – General Sir John Wilsey ex GOC N.I 2012. Jon Boutcher’s first report for Operation Kenova, an investigation into an agent called Stakeknife or Steaknife, now known to be the late Freddie Scappaticci, has passed the security…
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Download a pdf copy of Operation Clockwork Orange by David Burke.
A pdf copy of Operation Clockwork Orange by David Burke can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. Some readers may find there is a space between this paragraph and the download link. David Burke is the author of three books published by Mercier Press: – ‘Deception & Lies, the Hidden History of the Arms…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 3. Margaret Thatcher and William Whitelaw cover-up child abuse.
By David Burke. [Volumes 1, 2 and 4 of this ebook can be found by clicking on the top section of this page (purple lettering) which will return you to the home page.] Chapter 8. Framing Colin Wallace for Manslaughter. 113. The Home Secretary (former NI Secretary) and Deputy Prime Minister. On 7 July 1980,…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 2.
By David Burke. [Volumes 1, 3 and 4, of this ebook can be found by clicking on the top section of this page (purple lettering) which will return you to the home page.] Chapter 4. A Clash of Interests. 040. Stepping on the toes of MI5. The British Army was not aware that William McGrath,…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 1 of Covert History Ireland’s new ebook.
By David Burke. [Volumes 2-4 of this ebook can be found by clicking on the top section of this page (purple lettering) which will take you to the home page.] Introduction: the fish rots from the head. The United Kingdom is paying a ghastly price for the decades during which the State turned a blind…
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From the Vaults (1989): The Riddle of Garret FitzGerald’s missing Dalí. By Frank Doherty.
Netflix is currently broadcasting a documentary on Salvador Dali, the celebrated Spanish artist famed as an exponent of surrealism. The Dalí film brings to mind the controversy – or, more accurately, the non-controversy – about Ireland’s missing Dali. The Irish state was presented with a Dalí picture (some say a sketch) by the Spanish government…
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From the Vaults: NOW magazine May 1990. Linking MI5 agents to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1974. By Frank Doherty and David Burke.
At the end of the 1980s, the late Frank Doherty set up NOW magazine. It published a number of stories about MI5 malfeasance. Two of them stick out in my mind. First, one which linked Mountbatten to the abuse of boys at Kincora which Frank and I wrote together. MI5 ran Kincora as a ‘honey…
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Prince Harry’s Red Line. By David Burke.
1. Prince Harry lets his enemies at Buckingham Palace off the ABC sex scandal hook When Prince Harry appeared on Netflix recently, he complained about a whispering campaign directed against him and his wife, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, by a cabal of racist officials at Buckingham Palace. He asserted that the cabal turned…
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The Spy in Leinster House. The British agent lurking in Leo Varadkar’s orbit. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris cannot be asked to investigate due to a conflict of interest. Harris used to work with MI5. By David Burke.
1. The British agent in Leinster House. The Joint Support Group (JSG) ran British agents in the Republic of Ireland for British military and civilian intelligence agencies during the Troubles. A former British military intelligence agent known by the pseudonym, Sam Rosenfeld, has alleged that a senior Irish government figure has served as an agent…
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Has Jon Boutcher, the head of Operation Kenova, passed through the shark infested waters of British Intelligence? (Kenova Part 3.) By Deirdre Younge.
Chief Superintendent Jon Boutcher and Operation Kenova’s first report on Agent Steaknife aka Freddie Scappaticci, has now, surprisingly, been approved by the British Cabinet Office without redactions or changes. It is now being considered by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) of Northern Ireland. Boutcher seems optimistic that the report will be published soon. [Since this…
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The good, the bad and the grotesquely ugly: political priests, garda deference to the Church and the child abuse vice ring at Blackrock College. By David Burke.
Part 1: The Catholic Church and its Friends in High Places in Ireland. 1. Godless charlatans. There were at least three types of priests in the Holy Ghost Order: the good, the bad and the grotesquely ugly. The ‘good’ were those who had a true vocation. They were – and are – men of unfathomable decency.…
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The Mountbatten dossier, an ebook by David Burke.
1. Outline allegation made. More detailed account awaited. On 17 October 2022 Sharon O’Neill of the Sunday Life newspaper in Belfast reported that an alleged victim of child sex abuse had named Lord Louis Mountbatten as one of his tormentors. His name is Arthur Smyth and he was a temporary resident of Kincora in the 1970s. Kincora…
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From the vaults: British informers penetrated Irish American groups. By James O’Shea.
On 9 September 2016, James O’Shea of the Irish Central published a report which revealed that British spies had penetrated Irish-American groups in the 1980s. The strap under the title declared: “Recently released British/Northern Ireland Office (NIO) State Papers have given further insight into how the British Embassy spied on Irish-Americans.” The story is reproduced…
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From the Vaults: Britain’s lies about the Irish National Caucus (INC) and MacBride Principles.
The article reproduced below was written by Fr. Sean McManus, President of the Irish National Caucus. It first appeared in the Irish Echo on 19 October 2016. Fr McManus has kindly granted us permission to republish it. The “Dublin Government, all of the parties in the South, plus the SDLP, and for a while Sinn…
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The State is abdicating responsibility for National Defence. By Gerard Humphreys, former army officer.
Introduction. As the lights begin to go off in Europe, the State continues to abdicate responsibility for national defence and is failing to fulfil its key obligations as an independent entity in international law. The geopolitical situation continues to rapidly deteriorate yet the government is engaged in a massive PR exercise ostensibly celebrating the centenary…
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Operation Kenova Part 1.
UPDATE: Freddie Scappaticci has passed away but Operation Kenova’s work goes on. Jon Boutcher’s first report is completed and on the PSNI’s ‘desk’. Now he is Chief Constable of the PSNI, Boutcher has left a decision on its publication to a designated police officer. SECOND UPDATE: The PSNI have announced they will publish Operation Kenova’s…
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From the Vaults: Kitson’s War with the I.R.A by Sean Boyne.
Sean Boyne, the Dublin-based author of the highly regarded volume, ‘Gunrunners, the Covert Arms Trail to Ireland 2006’, had a distinguished career as an investigative journalist. In 1972 he was writing for This Week magazine. On the 8th of June that year, he produced the cover story, ‘Kitson’s war with the I.R.A.’. People reading this…
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John Hume was the victim of a campaign of character assassination. It was perpetrated by the British Secret Service, MI6, and their colleagues in the IRD, a dirty tricks department of the Foreign Office. Hume was also placed under MI5 surveillance in Dublin with the assistance of the Gardaí.
An ebook by David Burke. An official portrait of the late Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume is to be unveiled in Westminster today. A sculpture of him was put on display at the European Parliament in Strasbourg earlier this year. The new portrait by Colin Davidson – which is magnificent – will hang in Portcullis…
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A declassified UK memo on John Hume exposes the interest of PM John Major’s top civil servants in “possible press stories regarding John Hume’s private life”.
By David Burke. A memo released from Britain’s National Archives in 2020 revealed discussions at the apex of the British government about salacious rumours relating to John Hume’s private life. It was sent to Sir Robin Butler, Cabinet Secretary to John Major’s government, and also to Major’s private secretary, Sir Alex Allan. Allan is not…
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Technology neutralises our neutrality. Irish infrastructure used in US Drone strikes. By David Waldron.
Margaretta D’Arcy found herself jailed in January 2014 on the back of a protest she mounted at Shannon Airport in 2012. What was she protesting about? US troop aircraft using Shannon as a stopover on their journey to the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan among other things. D’Arcy is a rare stalewart against the steady…
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The Libyan connection. By Deirdre Younge
The Kingsberry civil action. The High Court in Belfast has granted permission for the sons of a former member of the UDA William Kingsberry, shot dead by the IRA in 1991, to sue Libya for supplying the kalashnikiov assault rifle used by the IRA unit that killed him. Other victims were killed or injured in…
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Prince Philip’s illicit sex life was monitored by Soviet spies.
Introduction. The Russian secret service, the FSB, has access to a set of dusty old KGB files. They describe the sexual antics of the British aristocracy, including those of the late Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. The information was gathered by Soviet era spies in the London of the late 1950s and early 1960s.…
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According to the report by Sir George Terry, children at Kincora derived “sexual satisfaction or pleasure” from being raped. By David Burke.
The Terry Report (1983) has resurfaced despite claims that all copies of it had been destroyed. Aside from the fact it contained blatant lies and covered-up the abuse of children at Kincora Boys’ Home with the knowledge of MI5 and MI6, Terry engaged in a bout of victim blaming – in this instance blaming the…
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The deceitful Terry Report into Kincora.
Judge Anthony Hart published his lamentable and error strewn report into the Kincora scandal in 2017. It received little or no coverage in the media as it appeared on the same day that Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the US. The report was littered with mistakes. It even managed to contradict itself.…
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Ireland’s digital pathways are being used to launch drone attacks. By David Waldron.
The debate in Ireland about joining NATO, or some sort of an EU military arrangement, is now on the political agenda like never before. Pro-neutrality advocates argue that the country is sleep walking into a military alignment of one sort or another with Western military powers. They point to the fact that US air force…
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Spying on the prodigal prince and his American wife. Harry and Megan are surely the targets of surveillance by His Majesty’s secret services. MI6 reported to his mother, Queen Elizabeth II for 70 years. By David Burke.
Introduction. Queen Elizabeth II received briefings from fifteen chiefs of the British Secret Service during her 70 year reign. In the modern era the communications of Prince Harry and his American wife are surely being monitored by Britain’s vast espionage network, in particular, GCHQ. 1. Royal briefings. Richard Moore, the Chief of the British…
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A reckless disregard for our security. By Gerard Humphreys, former army officer.
The Constitution of Ireland declares Ireland to be a sovereign independent democratic state. This declaration of sovereignty means that the State is not subject to any power or government. But sovereignty to be recognised in International Law brings with it rights and duties. International law is based upon the concept of the state and the…
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Parallels in ‘Perversion’: RUC and MI5 informers and the Arlene Arkinson and Richard Kerr cases. By Donal Lavery.
While they would seem worlds apart, their fates were all the more alike. This refers of course to the tragedies which befell young Arlene Arkinson and Richard Kerr starting when both of them were youths and culminating in two destroyed lives. Arlene was a pleasant teenage girl who seemed well-liked by her family and friends…
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Silent Defenders. By Ciarán MacAirt.
In a whitewashed barn decked out with Ulster flags, Union Jacks and pictures of the Queen, their leader in charge of this meeting sat at an old table. He pressed a button on a tape recorder. A voice boomed out: I address you as the commander in chief of the organisation, Silent Defenders. Author Ciarán…