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. Kincora Boys’ Home, where Kerr lived, was run by Britain’s MI5 and MI6. It was a part of a sprawling international blackmail network run by US, UK and other NATO and Western intelligence services.
Roy Cohn’s job was to set up targets for sexual blackmail by the CIA. He was also able to abuse the victims of the network for his own sordid gratification.
The blackmail network was established decades ago. Jeffrey Epstein was another key figure in it. Epstein targeted President Bill Clinton, Senator Graham Mitchell and other politicians.
The common thread between the Roy Cohn-Richard Kerr scandal, Cohn’s wider activities and, in more recent times, those of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, is child trafficking, blackmail and a disturbing refusal by British and American authorities to investigate their egregious crimes in anything approaching an adequate fashion.
The conspirators in Washington and London who now protect the CIA-Cohn-Epstein operation, are so powerful that, in 2025, they are able to bend Donald Trump to their will.
The mere fact of the trip to Venice by Roy Cohn and Richard Kerr, demolishes the findings of a series of flawed – and often blatantly corrupt – official inquiries into the Kincora child trafficking scandal. The cover-up continues to this day. The Kerr case, however, provides a revealing insight into how the CIA-Roy Cohn-Jeffrey Epstein blackmail operation was run, managed and protected.
Alex Acosta is another weak link in the ongoing cover-up. Thanks to him, we know precisely for whom Epstein worked. Acosta prosecuted Epstein in 2008. He wanted to prosecute Epstein on serious child sex trafficking charges but was forced to drop them on orders from the CIA. The Agency told him Epstein worked for the CIA.
Michael Wolff published a number of critical books about Donald Trump. Despite this, the former president granted Wolff an interview which helped inform another volume, ‘Landslide’. In it, Trump fulminated and groaned about perceived slights and betrayals. He was particularly critical of the 1,000 or so lawyers he had retained during his career. None of them merited praise except for Roy Cohn.
Cohn was also Trump’s mentor.
Cohn was so corrupt, he was eventually disbarred from practice as a lawyer. He died from AIDS in 1986. Trump then let Epstein and Maxwell into his life until 2004.
Some child abusers are above the law. Cohn was never prosecuted for the crime of sexual abuse. Epstein was treated lightly for years. In August 2019, the Metropolitian Police in London anounced that Prince Andrew was not going to investigated for having had sex with a minor. A spokesperson for the Met announced that it had investigated allegations he had ‘had sex with Virginia Roberts Giuffre aged 17 in Ghislaine Maxwell’s bathroom’ in London and confirmed that while they had received ‘an allegation of non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation’ that ‘no further action is being taken’.
Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to ignore the fact that the notorious paedophile and friend of the Royal Family, the late Lord Greville Janner, introduced a teenage male prostitute to Prince Andrew.
Roy Cohn was a cheating, corrupt, tax-dodging, cocaine-snorting New York lawyer. After the election of Trump as US President in 2016, Cohn’s career was put under the spotlight once more. He was credited with having imbued Trump with a ruthless, amoral and deceitful approach to life.
Cohn once admitted that he would do anything to ensure his clients prevailed in their legal battles. ‘There isn’t anything I would not do because I believe there is only one answer in an adversarial profession like law and that is winning ‘
Cohn had some very disturbing connections to the Mafia, CIA and other intelligence services.
The gangster Joseph Bonnano was one of Cohn’s clients. His son Bill told a US TV documentary, in 1996, that Cohn had incriminating pictures of FBI boss Edgar J. Hoover in a dress which he used to blackmail him and prevent federal investigations of his clients. While the allegation about the photograph of Hoover in the dress has gained a wide traction, it sounds fanciful. Nonetheless, there may be an element of truth to the story, namely that Hoover – who was gay – may have been subjected to blackmail by the Mafia and Cohn, inter-alia, over his relationship with his boyfirend Clyde Tolson.
James Angleton, a towering figure at the CIA, was also reputed to have had blackmail material about Hoover.
What is absolutely certain is that Hoover failed to deploy the FBI against organised crime purporting to believe it did not exist.
The revelation that Cohn was involved in paedophile rings was made in print in 1992 when John W. De Camp published a book called ‘The Franklin Cover-Up’ in which he described a number of child abuse rings in the US including one which furnished children to political VIPs run by the CIA. De Camp’s book has never gone out of print. A second edition was published in 1996 and reprinted in 2001, 2005 and 2006.
In the 2006 edition, at page 179, the author described the role of Robert Gray, a child trafficker from the Watergate era. Gray and a CIA agent called Edwin Wilson were involved in blackmail operations which exploited vulnerable children. According to the former CIA officer and whistleblower, Frank Terpil, CIA blackmailing operations involving paedophiles were intensive in Washington at the time of the Watergate scandal. Wilson ran one of them. Terpil told De Camp that:
historically, one of Wilson’s [CIA] jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary … Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasy in the flesh … A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras… The technicians in charge of filming … [were] TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porn stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office.
According to De Camp, the blackmail operation was run by Roy Cohn. He quotes the former head of the vice squad for one of America’s biggest cities who told him that:
Cohn’s job – say you had an admiral, general, congressmen, who did not want to go along with the programme, Cohn’s job was to set them up, then they would go along. Cohn told me that himself.
This revelation helps makes sense of Cohn’s exploitation of Richard Kerr, the boy from Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast. Kincora was part of a paedophile network exploited by MI5 and MI6 for a variety of nefarious reasons including the collection of ‘kompromat’ and blackmail material. MI5, MI6 and the CIA were – and remain – allies. These organisations co-operated in all sorts of blackmail operations during the Cold War. Some of them were designed to control politicians, senior NATO military figures and other VIPs.
Enoch Powell MP, who ran against Ted Heath for the leadership of the Tory Party in the UK in 1966, became highly critical of NATO. That might explain why he was supplied with a boy from Wiliamson House in the 1970s while he served as a Unionist MP at Westminster. Powell exploited the same boy a few years later at the Europa Hotel while the latter was a resident at Kincora. Both events were probably recorded to gather information for possible use in an operation to damage his reputation or to blackmail him into silence. There were other reasons for targeting Powell such as his opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 which was supported by Britain’s Foreign Office (which controls MI6 – Britain’s overseas intelligence service.) For more information about Powell see: Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s mentor was a violent paedophile and a racist with deranged views about the lack of intelligence of women.
All of this raises the strong possibility that the CIA has files on MI5 and MI6 operations that involved the exploitation of children. While there is little or no possibility that MI5 and MI6 will ever admit their role in the Kincora scandal, it is possible that a CIA file may yet emerge to expose the truth.
The horrific Marc Dutroux child murder and sexual abuse scandal in Belgium involved a VIP vice ring which was probably linked to a CIA-MI6-NATO blackmail operation designed to control and reward influential Belgian figures and ensure they supported NATO policy. Similar operations undoubtedly took place in France, Germany and other Western countries.
The publication of De Camp’s book in 1992 also raises the strong possibility that Trump has known about Cohn’s role as a child trafficker for decades. Yet, Trump still sings Cohn’s praise.
One of Cohn’s links to this sordid world was a Texan living in London called Fred Ferguson who was also a paedophile. Another probable connection was Dr Morris Fraser, a psychiatrist from Northern Ireland. In 1977 Cohn and Ferguson gained access to Richard Kerr, the boy from Northern Ireland, through this sprawling transatlantic paedophile network.
Kerr was part of a group of 14-year-old boys who had been residents of Williamson House in Belfast who were transferred to Kincora Boys’ Home in 1975. Up to this point, Kincora had mainly catered for 16-18-year-olds. Some, if not all, of the Williamson boys had been subjected to horrific abuse, violence and intimidation by a member of the staff at the home, Eric Witchell and his associates, so much so they had become fearful and compliant child-sex puppets.
Witchell now lives in London. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) in London ignored his role in the Anglo-Irish vice ring, a paedophile network that – as this story will demonstrate – overlapped with abuse rings in the US.
The abuse of the children at Williamson House, Kincora and elsewhere in Northern Ireland, was carried out with the knowledge and connivance of MI5, MI6 and the RUC. At the time of the transfer of the boys from Williamson House to Kincora, MI5 was the dominant UK intelligence service operating in Northern Ireland. It was commanded by its then Director-General, Sir Michael Hanley. His key officer on the ground in Northern Ireland was Ian Cameron who was mooted in the media as a contender for the position of Director-General of MI5 in the late 1980s.
Cameron might well have ascended to the top MI5 post but for the Kincora scandal which erupted in 1980, and a fear that MPs such as the redoubtable Ken Livingstone might have raised the issue in the House of Commons. Livingstone was booed and jeered by Tory MPs when he raised this type of issue in parliament.
Richard Kerr was one of the boys transferred to Kincora. The other boys were:
− ‘F’, who is still alive;
− ‘B’, who later shot himself;
− ‘S’;
− Steven Waring, who had not been in Williamson House, joined a few months later. He committed suicide in November 1977. He had been abused by Lord Louis Mountbatten the previous August. See ‘The Mountbatten Dossier’ on this website: https://coverthistory.ie/2022/12/02/mountbatten-dossier-royalty-child-abuse-and-a-murder-survivors-make-accusations-a-boy-committed-suicide-a-child-killer-escaped-justice-mi5-mi6-and-the-ruc-were-involved-by-david-burke/
− Another young boy, ‘D’, would be consigned to the hell of this existence the following year. He is still alive.
Richard Kerr, the boy abused by Cohn, was the first of the younger than normal cohort of children from Williamson House to arrive at Kincora. On the surface, there was no logical reason for the transfer of the new residents. Cameron and MI5, however, were the beneficiaries of the new arrangement because it allowed them to replenish their ongoing ‘honey trap’ blackmail operations in Belfast, Bangor and elsewhere, with a fresh batch of younger teenagers who were broken, terrified and sexually compliant. In addition, MI5 was in complete control of Kincora, a detached house at a crossroads with a side entrance.
The building was also smaller and more manageable than Williamson House which consisted of two structures. Kincora was located conveniently close to a number of venues which were frequented by Loyalist terrorist groups, at least one of which, The Park Avenue Hotel, had an MI5/6 operations room to record what was taking place in the bedrooms.
One very senior DUP figure, ‘The Wife Beater’, was caught on tape in one of the rooms. He is still alive and a significant influence on the party. He was lured to the hotel by his ‘friend’ John McKeague, a Loyalist hood and former bodyguard to Ian Paisley. (Paisley was the founder and first leader of the DUP.) See also: The DUP, God’s Soldiers. [WebBook]
Kincora was controlled by three men, all of whom were paedophiles: Joe Mains, William McGrath and Raymond Semple. In comparison, Witchell is the only paedophile who we can say with certainty was employed at Williamson House in the early and mid-1970s. The rest of the staff at Williamson House at this time were not involved in child sex-abuse and many are remembered fondly by former residents. Witchell did, however, let other paedophiles visit the home to abuse the vulnerable children in his care, some as young as eight.
After the transfer of the helpless Williamson group of boys to Kincora in 1975, MI5 was in a position to move them about Ireland and abroad at will.
Sickeningly, intelligence figures at the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), such as Peter England and John Imrie, were able to exploit the boys as a sordid perk of their employment at the NIO. England had worked at the Ministry of Defence before his assignment to the NIO; Imrie at MI5.
Members of this victim group were trafficked to England and Scotland by Mains on the orders of Joss Cardwell, an influential Loyalist politician and friend of senior MPs at Westminster such as the leader of the Official Unionist Party, James Molyneaux MP. (See Village magazine, February 2018: https://villagemagazine.ie/how-the-anglo-irish-vice-ring-operated/
One of those who had access to boys from Kincora in London was a high-profile Tory MP who was a friend of Molyneaux. Another abuser was a famous actor and celebrity who is still very much to the fore of his profession. Not only are both of these men alive, one of them has a long history of involvement in children’s charities.
In 1977, Richard Kerr was driven by Joe Mains, the Warden of Kincora, and Raymond Semple, a member of the staff at Kincora, to the Whip and Saddle bar at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. Kerr was familiar with the Europa where he had been abused since he was 14 years of age. One of his abusers at the hotel was Enoch Powell MP.
On this particular occasion, Kerr was introduced to some Americans in the bar. One of them did not give his correct name but was in fact Roy Cohn, perhaps the most famous US lawyer of the second half of the twentieth century and the mentor of the then youthful Donald Trump.
He was there with two other Americans, Fred Ferguson and Daniel S.
Daniel S’s father owned a company in Wichita Falls, Texas, which supplied parts to the oil industry.
The encounter at the Europa has all the hallmarks of a sleazy appraisal by Cohn and Ferguson of Kerr to see if the young Irish teenager whetted their sexual appetites. Kerr was 15 or perhaps had just turned 16 having been born in May 1961. According to Kerr, ‘nothing happened with [Cohn] at the Europa hotel’.
The plan for Cohn and Ferguson at this time was to visit Venice two weeks later and they desired a compliant teenage boy for sex. Kerr clearly passed the test and arrangements were made for him to join them and Daniel S. on their trip.
Two weeks later Mains ordered Kerr to take a ferry to Liverpool – presumably on the ‘Ulster Monarch’ – where Ferguson and Daniel S were waiting for him. They took a train to London. Ferguson left Kerr with Daniel S who took him to the Bonaparte restaurant at the Napoleon Club, on Lanchashire Place in London. Kerr was kept in London overnight or perhaps two nights at a guesthouse.
The traffickers were now joined by two vice-ring enforcers: Mike Anderson, from Manchester and Stephen Jackson.
Ferguson re-joined the group which ultimately consisted of Kerr, Ferguson, Daniel S, Anderson and Jackson. They headed to the coast by train, presumably to Dover from where it crossed the Channel by ship. After that, ‘I was put on another train and [we] went through Europe then I ended up in Venice’.
Despite the fact the trafficking of Kerr across Britain and Europe and back again involved four adult males, Anthony Hart, a self-proclaimed ‘lazy’ retired judge, denied the existence of a vice ring of any sort in his execrable 2017 report on Kincora.
Cohn was waiting for Kerr in Venice at the world-renowned Gritti Palace Hotel, at a glass table. Richard Kerr was struck by the marble floor and majestic pillars close to the ballroom. Cohn ‘didn’t talk too much [and] just took me up to the room and we had an encounter’. He learned his correct name later. ‘I believe that I was there three or four days’.
Ferguson also abused Kerr in Venice.
Kerr was not taken to see any of the sights of the city by the Americans as a treat. He did, of course, get to pass by many of them. The Americans had only one purpose in mind for him: sexual abuse.
The two British enforcers were present to make sure he did not cause any trouble, i.e., he did not run away, talk to strangers or go to the police.
Presumably, the two British enforcers were also brought along to coerce Kerr with physical violence if he refused to submit to Cohn and Ferguson’s sexual demands. However, Kerr had become conditioned to sexual abuse over the previous seven years. He had first been raped in the night while he clutched a child’s toy in his bed in Williamson House.
There were other reasons why Kerr was compliant. At around the time of the trip to Venice, he had been subjected to what amounted to a death threat by Joe Mains.
Kerr was also abused by a string of terrifying and violent men. Foremost among them was John McKeague, the notorious UVF/Red Hand Commando terrorist and serial killer. McKeague was a friend of Mains and a sadistic sexual abuser.
Kerr had also been bullied by older boys at Kincora.
In the event violence was not necessary to force him submit to the demands of Cohn and Ferguson and he was subjected to days of incessant rape whenever the whim took the Americans.
The sex was clearly satisfactory for both men. At the end of the visit, Cohn said to him, ‘I’d be open to seeing you again’.
Ferguson would become a significant figure in Richard Kerr’s life after he left Northern Ireland and went to live in London for a few years before relocating to Texas.
During the trip to Venice, Kerr was taken through Switzerland where the travelling party stopped over for approximately four hours.
A photograph of Richard Kerr taken during the stop in Switzerland is reproduced below. It was taken at Thun on the Aarequai, Switzerland. The former hotel Beau Rivage appears to the left of the lamp post. The large building on the right of the picture was the Thunerhof which is now the site of the city administration offices and the Art Museum. (Thank you to Richard Maurer for these details.)
A string of failed official reports into the Kincora scandal can now be discounted, namely {i} Terry Inquiry (failed due to deceit by its author); {ii} Hughes Inquiry (the terms of reference were secretly neutered by Thatcher’s NI Secretary James Prior); {iii} the 2017 Hart Inquiry/HIA (led by a ‘lazy’, biased, disdainful and negligent judge who was out of his depth and lacked attention to detail); and {iv} the sterile Jay/IICSA farce which displayed an inexplicable lack of interest in examining evidence relevant to its terms of reference. None of these futile probes talked to Richard Kerr or other key witnesses. Many witnesses refused to co-operate with these inquiries due to well founded trust and confidence issues.
If you were to read the error-strewn Hart Report, you would be led to believe that Kerr was in Kincora throughout 1975-1977 and never set foot in Britain, let alone Venice. In this regard the reader is directed to the photograph of Kerr in front of Westminster, London which was also taken while he was meant to have been in care in Belfast.
The Westminster picture was broadcast on television before Hart produced his report. He simply ignored it as it did not suit his perverse and dishonest agenda, i.e., that the only abuse suffered by Kincora boys was that perpetrated at the home by the three staff members.
The black and white photograph above was also taken in London by one of Kerr’s abusers.
Eric Witchell, the notorious child rapist who ran Williamson House, is one of a tiny number of people who profess to admire the content of the Hart Report.
Clarence Fred Ferguson is the man in the photographs above and below. The one below was taken in Venice during Richard Kerr’s 1977 trip to the city.
He was born in March 1926 so was 51 at the time of the trip to Venice. He went to Breckenridge High School in Texas and later served in the US Army. He obtained a qualification as a chemical engineer from Texas Tech University. In 1952 he went to work for Marathon Oil Company and relocated to Houston; thereafter, Michigan, Ohio and Alaska. After he became Marathon’s UK Engineering Manager he resided in London.
Perhaps some readers will know more about his private life especially his friendship with Cohn and his relationship with figures in the Conservative and Labour parties during his time in the UK in the 1970s to 1990s, including whether he made donations to them on behalf of Marathon Oil.
This is another photograph from the trip taken from roughly the same angle at which the photo of Ferguson was taken.
In the 1980s, Ferguson set Kerr up in a flat at 44 Baker Street in London. For the avoidance of confusion, this was after Kerr had left Kincora and was living in London.
On one occasion Ferguson gave Kerr a cashmere jacket from an Austin Reid outlet near the Piccadilly Hotel in London which, he explained, was a present from Cohn.
By this stage in his life Richard had come to see his abusers as ‘sharks’ and ‘dolphins’. He had abandoned any hope of a normal life and now resolved that, having been thrown into the water, he was going to swim with the ‘dolphins’ rather than the sharks. It is a sad indictment on the world in which he existed that he viewed Ferguson in a benevolent light, a ‘dolphin’.
Ferguson retired in 1986 and returned to Texas. Richard followed him having decided Dallas looked like an attractive place to live from the TV soap opera ‘Dallas’, especially the scenes where the Ewings raised horses. Cohn helped make the arrangements for his relocation. Cohn advised Ferguson to secure the help of the law office of Richard S. Goldstein, a New York immigration specialist. Goldstein and his associates were professionals who had no connection to any of the wrongdoing described in this article and were merely providing an expert service in a perfectly proper manner.
Kerr was flown from London to New York City for two weeks to take care of the necessary paperwork.
A member of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet, Leon Brittan, was involved in helping Kerr obtain documentation to go to the US.
After New York, Kerr returned to London where he was instructed to meet someone at the back of the American Embassy. He then received his immigration papers at the US embassy in London.
Kerr went to live in Dallas. Ferguson and Daniel S became fixtures in Richard’s life. Richard was with Daniel S when he died at the Royal Hospital in Dallas. He never married.
Roy Cohn, who died from AIDS in 1986, was a figure of enormous notoriety during his life. His story has become of great interest to the public again due to a number of developments: {i} the election of Donald Trump as President of the US in 2016 and 2024, {ii} a recent Netflix Original documentary, ‘Where’s My Roy Cohn?’, {iii} the documentary; ‘Bully. Coward. Victim’, and {iv} perhaps most sinister of all, his links to the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell scandal.
Cohn was a ruthless and amoral lawyer. He graduated from Law School at the age of 20. He was involved in the prosecution of the nuclear spies, Ethel and Julian Rosenberg. After they were convicted, he requested the Court to hand down a death sentence. They were both electrocuted. One of his ploys had been to prosecute Ethel Rosenberg although he knew she was innocent of espionage. He gambled that he could use her life as a bargaining chip to get her husband to spill the beans on others who were involved in his actions. Cohn knew full well that Ethel Rosenberg was not a Russian spy.
In other words, a perfectly innocent woman was electrocuted due to his machinations. It has since emerged that Cohn also deployed forged documents, perjury and other perversions of justice to secure her false conviction.
Cohn also worked with J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI and was recommended by him to join Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Senate subcommittee where he participated in aggressive witch hunts of left-wing activists and homosexuals. Indeed, throughout his life, Cohn opposed all civil rights reforms in the area of homosexuality.
His stint with McCarthy ended in ridicule due to his erratic behaviour after his boyfriend was conscripted into the US Army. Cohn next established a lucrative private legal career in his hometown of New York. There, he acted for Donald Trump. Cohn is on record as having described Trump as ‘a genius’. At one point, he wanted him to become America’s lead nuclear-arms negotiator with the Soviet Union. Many of his aggressive tactics can be discerned in Trump’s political modus operandi, most recently over the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Cohn was also a supporter of Republican leaders such as the future president Ronald Reagan.
Cohn was the lawyer of choice for the Mafia and drug cartels operating in North America.
Cohn’s links to the Mafia enabled Donald Trump to construct Trump Tower out of poured concrete as opposed to building a metal-based structure. Many of Trump’s competitors did not use poured concrete because the industry was controlled by the organised crime. Yet, in this instance, Cohn’s links to the gangsters enabled Trump to conclude an affordable deal with them.
Cohn denied during television interviews that he was suffering from AIDS and continued to enjoy the company of his male lovers, thereby exposing them to the disease.
The two documentaries mentioned earlier are worth watching to glean an understanding of the man. In the sequence about his sexual habits in ‘Where’s My Roy Cohen’, it is revealed that there ‘were rumours that he was picking up male prostitutes all around [New York] city’.
The documentary was released in 2019. Richard Kerr spoke about his experience with Cohn long before the documentary aired.
There is a strong possibility that Cohn was put in contact with Joe Mains, the Warden of Kincora, or at least told about the children available at the home, by Dr Morris Fraser, a member of a number of paedophile rings including at least one in New York. In addition, Cohn may have known about the existence of the abuse network in Northern Ireland though his connections to the intelligence services (discussed in section 11 of this article). A third possibility is that his friend Fred Ferguson heard about the boys available in Belfast from a member of the Anglo-Irish vice ring in London and organised their trip to Belfast.
In the 1970s, Fraser enjoyed a high profile as a highly respected child psychiatrist in Belfast. He published a book analysing the effect of the Troubles on children, ‘Children in Conflict’. Under the radar, he abused boys in Ireland, the UK and the US.
Fraser was part of an incredibly powerful paedophile network that had many of the children in care in Northern Ireland in the grip of its hand. Cllr. Joss Cardwell, a one-time Stormont MP, was chairman of Belfast’s Welfare Department which ran all the homes in the city and was in a position to place paedophiles into them. No doubt he had counterparts across the North. Cardwell committed suicide after he was interviewed by the police about child abuse.
At a loftier political level, James Molyneaux MP (the Leader of the dominant Official Unionist Party), Enoch Powell MP (one time contender for leadership of the Tory Party), and a string of other MPs at Westminster were involved. One of the Tory MPs had been a serious contender for the leadership of the Conservative Party as Ted Heath’s star waned. This man held a mesmeric intellectual sway over Margaret Thatcher and served in her cabinet in a department which dealt extensively with children.
The Irish branch of the child vice network could also rely on the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) to intervene if a threat emerged. The officials at the NIO – on the security side – were MI5 and MI6 officers who had control over the Royal Ulster Constabulary and enjoyed multiple links to Loyalist terror groups. These terrorists were engaged in the collusive murder of Irish Republican paramilitaries (IRA and INLA) with the British Army and MI5. In other words, if it ever became necessary to have someone threatened or even murdered, the apparatus was in place at the NIO to achieve this. One of their agents was John McKeague, a terrorist who had plenty of blood on his hands. Ironically, he was murdered by MI5 agents inside the INLA, a Republican paramilitary organisation, after he threatened to spill the beans about what he knew about the vice ring.
Fraser’s role in protecting the vice ring was more subtle. When children who were being abused made complaints or began to behave in a troubled manner, they were sometimes sent to him. Instead of identifying that they were being abused, he would conceal what was going on. Fraser was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Had the Terry, Hughes or Hart inquiries conducted their investigations properly, we might know how many of the victims of child abuse who visited Fraser were denied the appropriate intervention, and, worse again, how many went on to commit suicide.
As a psychiatrist, Fraser knew that suicide was a likely eventual outcome of his behaviour.
Fraser is therefore complicit in the death of a number of his patients.
Fraser even abused the children who attended him as patients. When Richard Kerr was about 10, in 1971, and a resident at Williamson House, he was taken to Fraser’s clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital along with his sister. On a second visit, he was alone. ‘He asked me to stand up and take my shorts down. For some reason, within a minute, he had some sort of Polaroid camera. He started taking shots. He said not to worry – he’s a doctor. But I felt embarrassed.’
Fraser’s mistake was to abuse children outside of the North. Perhaps the NIO-MI5/6-RUC safety net in Belfast gave him a false confidence. He was arrested for child abuse in London in May 1972. Damage limitation became the order of the day. He was given a mere three-year conditional discharge which let him resume his career uninterrupted.
He was arrested again in New York in May 1973 as part of an eight-man child abuse ring. He pleaded guilty to the abuse of three boys in February 1974 in Suffolk County, New York. Again, he was conditionally discharged and deported. Again, the high contracting parties from MI5 and their associates appear to have stepped in to save him. Fraser should have been, but was not, brought back before a UK court, having broken the terms of his May 1972 three-year conditional discharge.
Fraser now lives in Holland, or did so until recently. He may still have the photographs of the young Richard Kerr in his possession as part of a library of sick child pornograph a pervert like him drools over. His legacy will be that of a child molester who was part of a violent paedophile underworld that destroyed countless lives, some by suicide and the murder of 10-year -old Brian McDermott in 1973.
By 2016, Fraser’s profile was so high that even Judge Hart was unable to ignore his existence. Instead, Hart included what purported to be a commentary about Fraser in his risible 2017 report. It was based on various documentary sources and included a string of fundamental factual mistakes. Dr Niall Meehan of Griffith College has carried out a forensic dissection of Hart’s sloppy analysis of Fraser. He has pointed out that Hart, ‘ignored evidence that from 1971- 73 an accused and then convicted serial child-abuser named Dr Morris Fraser continued to work with vulnerable institutionalised children. The [Hart] Inquiry also refused to examine how and why police protected the internationally-known child psychiatrist from exposure and from professional censure, for a year after he was found guilty of abuse’.
Dr Meehan’s critique of Hart’s ‘error-strewn commentary’ on Fraser can be read at: https://villagemagazine.ie/stormont-should-correct-hiai-report-to-reflect-police-paedophile-delinquency/
Much of the truth about the Anglo-Irish Vice Ring – and its overlap with US paedophile networks – could have been established by Judge Hart if he had seen fit to talk to Fraser, Witchell, the ‘Sadist’ (a notorious ex-Tory MP who abused at least one Kincora boy) and the ‘Wife Beater’, a senior member of the DUP. Regrettably, Hart neglected to do so. Instead, he used his report to vilify a string of whistle blowers and sex abuse victims.
Fraser and the others mentioned above are still alive. Professor Jay of the IICSA did not talk to them either. Overall, she appears to have little or no appreciation of the existence of a VIP Anglo-Irish Vice Ring, let alone its exploitation by the intelligence services of the UK despite a mountain of available evidence. All of the material in this article, most particularly the photographs and financial statements, could have been made available to her.
Had Professor Jay engaged in the inquiry process in an appropriate manner, she would have been provided with financial statements showing the staggering level of funding which was put Kerr’s way by Ferguson, perhaps with contributions from other members of the vice ring after he went to Dallas. Ferguson also bought him a house and started transferring considerable sums of money into his bank account, perhaps with contributions from other memebers of the vice ring. The sums dispersed were truly jaw dropping. Unfortunately, Kerr and his friends gambled virtually all of it away. Still, the records of the transfers and deposits exist.
Ferguson continued to fund Kerr up to his death in Texas on 26 August, 1995. All of this is traceable.
Ferguson died a batchelor.
Outlined below are a sample of the financial statements that could have been furnished to Prof Jay for analysis by her forensic accounts:
Ferguson was a wealthy man who never married or had children. He was employed at a senior level by Marathon Oil for most of his adult working life and accrued a large amount of stock in it. The company is still in existence. Its revenue in 2019 was 5.063 billion dollars; 5.902 in 2018. Ferguson was clearly a wealthy man but just how wealthy? In Texas he gave Richard Kerr staggering sums in the region of $1,169,233 and $1,432,064 among other donations. Was he that rich or did others contribute? It is quite likely that Ferguson was joined by other wealthy figures who wanted to get Kerr out of the UK and were prepared to finance a new life for him. At the time panic was rising inside the British Establishment over Kincora, especially at MI5 and Buckingham Palace. The threat to the Palace was acute: journalists in Dublin were inquiring into Lord Mountbatten’s role in the affair with the whistleblower Robin Bryans and would eventually name Mountbatten in ‘Now’ magazine as a member of the Anglo-Irish rape gang. Richard Kerr, for one, certainly believes there was a group who financed his life in the US becasue of a fear he would talk in public about what he knew about Kincora and all of the various vice rings which overlapped with it.
Kerr was also lucky that he was not murdered. Although the serial killing Loyalist terrorist John McKeague was dead, there were others who could have killed him. MI5 would have had no compuction in murdering him: in 1989 while Patrick Walker was D-G of MI5, his subordinates murdered a solicitor called Patrick Finucane. So why didn’t MI5 order the murder of Kerr? Perhaps by this time Kerr had encountered too many VIPs and an inquiry into his death would have resulted in too much unease among a group of MPs, cabinet ministers and other VIPs who knew him. It may also be the case that if Richard’s murder was mooted, Ferguson or someone else might have opposed the initative. (In so far as MI5’s murder capacity is concerned, please see: https://villagemagazine.ie/her-majestys-hatchetman-the-murder-of-pat-finucane/
See also: Kincora’s darkest secret.
Looking back on his life now, Richard believes he was in effect held hostage by these men for deades of his life.
A collection of articles on Kincora can be found here: https://coverthistory.ie/tag/kincora/
Cohn’s criminality eventually went too far and he was disbarred from acting as an attorney. His crimes includued fraud and theft from his clients.
He continued to deny his homosexuality. He was also dying of AIDS.
After all this his so-called friends – including Trump – deserted him.
Trump, however, let another child abuser with political and ‘intelligence’ connections into his life, Jeffrey Epstein.
Kerr’s revelations about Cohn, Fraser and others in the US, as well as their links to Europe, chime darkly with the research about child-abuse networks undertaken by Whitney Webb. She asserts that Cohn acted as a sexual blackmailer as part of a Cold War network of intelligence services which acted in concert with elements of the Mafia. Her insights would certainly help explain how Cohn evaded the attention of the police for his abuse of cocaine, minors and his exploitation of male prostitutes despite making countless influential enemies in New York, especially in politics and law enforcement.
Webb has unearthed evidence which she presents as that of a longstanding sexual blackmail network, set up by the Mafia and later involving Cohn alongside US and other intelligence services. In more recent times this group had connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
Webb’s theory certainly offers an explanation for the otherwise inexplicable ‘sweetheart deal’ Epstein was afforded despite multiple incidents of child rape in 2008. The prosecutor who agreed to it, Alex Acosta, has revealed that it was arranged because he was told by his superiors that Epstein ‘belongs to intelligence’. He was also told to ‘leave it alone’ and that it ‘was above his pay grade’.
Despite being appointed to the position of Secretary of Labour in Trump’s 2017 administration, the Epstein scandal eventually cost Acosta his place in Trump’s cabinet.
Incredibly, this shocking revelation has been all but forgotten by the mainstream US media. Instead journalists should be digging to find out:
{i} when Acosta received a tap on his shoulder;
{ii} what exactly was he told;
{iii} by whom;
{iv} who else was involved in the chain of command which passed the order along to Acosta;
{vi} what was the nature of Epstein’s involvement with the world of ‘intelligence’;
{vi} which intelligence services were involved;
{vii} what did Epstein do for them;
{viii} if Epstein did not collect ‘kompromat’ for his ‘intelligence’ connections for blackmail purposes, what service did he provide?
Epstein destroyed the lives of hundreds of young girls. One of the more depressing stories about him relates to a ‘gift’ he was sent from Paris by a fellow paedophile. According to Virginia Giuffre, Jean-Luc Brunel, a model scout, sent three 12 year-old impoverished French girls to Epstein for sex. The American enjoyed them on his birthday and sent them back to Brunel the next day.
The link between Cohn and the Kincora scandal shows that the paedophile network which existed in Northern Ireland did not merely overlap with the vice rings in Britain but extended across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Epstein case – even if it has no historical connection to Roy Cohn – demonstrates that blackmail predicated upon child sex abuse is still a covert tool of the darker elements of the West’s intelligence services.
Epstein was not a spy who travelled to Russia or China. So, what else could the reference made by Alex Acosta to an ‘intelligence’ dimension to the deal he afforded Epstein, refer but to child abuse to gather ‘kompromat’?
There are multiple indications that Epstein may have made recordings of former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and other VIPs. His New York mansion heaved with recording devices. Witnesses say they were installed in each and every room – even in the lavatories. Presumably, his weird island in the Caribbean and ranch in New Mexico, were also strewn with recording devices. Imagine the control Epstein’s superiors could have exerted over Hillary Clinton had she had won the US election instead of Trump in 2016.
Imagine the control Epstein’s masters may have exercised over Bill Clinton and other politicians during recent decades.
Al Gore served as Clinton’s vice president for eight years and was narrowly defeated by George Bush when he ran for the White House in 2000. Epstein managed to make contact with Gore and drew him into his social circle. To his credit, there is no hint that Gore engaged in wrongdoing. On the contrary, all the witnesses who saw him during his encounters with Epstein say he was a perfect gentleman. His good behaviour must have been a great disappointment to Epstein and his superiors.
Epstein was undoubtedly just one of a cohort of blackmailers. Others may have ensnared homosexual US politicians and media figures; and more again, politicians who abuse young children.
There are reasons to believe Donald Trump is not capable of being blackmailed over his sex life. He was re-elected despite the Stormy Daniels and E Jean Carroll cases. Any leverage by way of possible ‘kompromat’ is now redundant. The electorate do not care about his private life. If the CIA had leverage over him, he would hardly have been able to release the CIA and FBI files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King in March and April 2025.
Unlike Bill Clinton, Trump appears to have seen through Epstein, and did so circa 2004. In July 2019, Trump stated that ‘he was ‘not a fan’ of Epstein and that the former friends had had a ‘falling out’ years ago. ‘I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him. Everybody in Palm Beach knew him. He was a fixture in Palm Beach. I had a falling out a long time ago. I’d say maybe 15 years. I was not a fan of his.’
Meanwhile, the master blackmailers – those who directed Epstein – have enjoyed a malign influence over the British Establishment via incriminating tapes of Prince Andrew.
The British public has little or no awareness of this sort of malpractice. The UK’s media is kept on a tight leash by MI5 which interferes with editorial freedom via the issue of D-Notices which censor what can be published. The owners of certain publications are allies of Western intelligence services. Rupert Murdoch’s connections to the CIA is an open secret. The Sunday Times was deeply complicit in covering up the Kincora scandal.
One high profile British newspaper editor killed an important story which revealed that the British military – at the highest level – had been aware of the scandal and had tried to halt the abuse. The editor is still working in the media where he is well known for taking the high ground on moral issues.
Other media barons in Britain are bribed with promises of knighthoods to control the content of their publications.
For a more detailed look at the life of Alan Kerr, the boy who was introducted to Prince Andrew by Janner, see the link below: The Boy on the Meat Rack
If Webb is correct about an intelligence-Mafia-mega corporation complex which has resorted to sexual blackmail, the implications for democracy are immense.
The illegal drugs industry generates hundreds of billions of euro every year. By some accounts in excess of 500 billion euro. In comparison, the budget for the European Union in 2017 was 157.9 billion.
The mainstream media rarely, if ever, investigate who sucks up these unimaginable oceans of drug money.
How is it possible for literally hundreds of billions of tax free euros/dollars to be absorbed by the mainstream global economy without the tax departments of the US, UK and other western nations noticing, not to mention their respective intelligence services.
How is it laundered?
Which banks manage it?
Where is the money invested?
Can anyone refer to a mainstream media organisation which has named any of the senior figures in control of the global drugs industry?
While it is not difficult to find information about the gift of tens of millions in ‘political donations’ from big business to politicians, the media has not sought to identify whether any of them are made by front companies controlled by the drug cartels.
Is it possible that the arch criminals who benefit from this industry have purchased stock in the six or seven media mega corporations who control – by some accounts – more than 90% of the media in the West?
While there are occasional successes against middle ranking drug lords, the overlords who generate hundreds of billions every year, decade after decade, are never bothered. In early July 2020 the British police conducted raids across the United Kingdom which netted £54 million of dirty cash including a single haul of £5 million. This operation was conducted in conjunction with European forces. The former Metropolitan Commissioner Police Cressida Dick called the operation the most significant one of her career. 740 so-called ‘kingpins’ were implicated while two tonnes of drugs were confiscated. By comparison to the 500 billion or more generated every year, this was inconsequential.
If a Mafia-intelligence-mega corporate nexus with operatives like Cohn and Epstein serving as cogs in a massive machine controlled by it has been eroding democracy and the freedom of the press by running bribery and blackmail operations – including sexual blackmail exercises – to compromise and control influential figures in the media for literally decades – it would certainly help explain the craven attitude of countless television broadcast companies, newspaper and magazine editors, leading journalists and TV broadcasters, and even publishing houses, who have thwarted worthwhile investigative journalism for decades, especially into drug empires, people trafficking and child abuse. The American media, for example, knew about the Epstein scandal for years but swept it under the carpet.
Amy Robach has let it slip that ABC knew all about Epstein but spiked the story.
No one is even bothering to ask who killed ABC’s Epstein story.
Who took the decision to spike it?
What do the memos show?
Who was consulted outside of the TV station/newsroom?
Who gave the ultimate order?
For further details see this link: https://coverthistory.ie/2024/03/12/vip-child-sex-abuse/
In March 2003 Vicky Ward of Vanity Fair wrote a story for the magazine which included details about Epstein’s abuse of two underage girls. The abuse had taken place in 1996. The section about the abuse was excised from her story. The excuse proffered was that the information came in too late and did not meet its exacting libel standards.
Instead of exposing Epstein, the Vanity Fair article lauded him. The piece by Vicky Ward which they butchered was entitled, ‘The Talented Mr. Epstein’. Yet, why was the story of the 1996 abuse not published in the next edition after the lawyers had had a chance to test the evidence? Instead this is what it published and let stay on the record for years: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303
It was Ward who discovered that Acosta had been told to go easy on Epstein in 2007 because of his ‘intelligence’ links. She wrote how:
Epstein’s name, I was told, had been raised by the Trump transition team when Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who’d infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for the job of labor secretary. The plea deal put a hard stop to a separate federal investigation of alleged sex crimes with minors and trafficking.
‘Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?’ Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had ‘been told’ to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. ‘I was told Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and to leave it alone,’ he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.)
Does the conviction of Epstein’s malevolent child pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, finally offer a glimmer of hope that the festering corruption at the heart of the American and British media has hit a bump on the road? Assuming Epstein was a blackmailer, the answer to that question must depend on who has the Epstein sex tapes, and/or copies of them, and what Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and other powerful people were caught doing while the cameras whirred silently.
If we are to believe the FBI, they only caught up with Maxwell in July of 2020.
Are we really expected to believe that it took the FBI a full year to track her down while she was under their noses in the US all along? Is it plausible that during this time she was able to operate her bank accounts? $1 million of her fortune was furnished to another individual who purchased a house for her in New Hampshire. Bearing in mind that she was British and had traversed the world, it is strange that she decided to stay in America where she was wanted by the police. She had access to millions of dollars and US, UK, Israeli and French passports.
Reports have emerged which indicate she was under surveillance in Colorado and Wyoming but managed to disappear before she was later detected in New Hampshire.
She may have expected that her controllers would arrange a deal for her. Instead, she became a scapegoat.
Nonetheless, she did not betray her ‘intelligence’ and mafia overlords, probably out of fear for her life, especially in light of what happened to Epstein.
Thus far, Maxwell has not turned her back on Prince Andrew either.
The Metropolitian Police in London have stated that they are not going to investigate Prince Andrew for having had sex with a minor. A spokesperson for the Met announced that it had investigated allegations he had ‘had sex with Virginia Roberts Giuffre aged 17 in Ghislaine Maxwell’s bathroom’ in London and confirmed that while they had received ‘an allegation of non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation’ that ‘no further action is being taken.
As Channel 4 disclosed, ‘The Met Police has refused to answer detailed questions about the allegations and whether they ever spoke to Epstein, his friend Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew or anyone from the Royal Household. Channel 4 News asked the Metropolitan Police a series of questions about Virginia Roberts’account of what she says happened to her at Maxwell’s London residence in early 2001. The Met told Channel 4 News: ‘[We] can confirm that the Metropolitan Police Service [MPS] received an allegation of non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation. The MPS reviewed the available evidence and the decision was made that this would not progress to a full investigation. As such, the matter was closed.’
In August 2019, Channel 4 News discovered that the Met had ‘reviewed the available evidence’ and decided that the matter ‘would not progress to a full investigation’. The Met’s purported inquiry had begun with a review of the ‘available evidence’ in 2015 after receiving a complaint over claims in US court papers that a girl was ‘forced to have sex with Prince Andrew’.
A further complaint concerning the sexual trafficking of Roberts to the UK was received by the Met in 2015 from an unconnected third party.
Independently, Roberts’ lawyers had contacted the Met in 2016.
The police finally caught up with Epstein and Maxwell, but not Prince Andrew for he is truly above the law. There is no reason to suspect he will ever face charges.
It will be interesting to see if the media barons in the US allow the journalists in their employ to ask Trump questions about the intelligence links of his former friends Roy Cohn, Jeffrey Epsteins and Ghislaine Maxwell, as the 2024 presidential campaign unfolds.
There are a numbet of disturbing details about Epstein’s demise.
Epstein was in a good mood in the days leading up to his death, hardly the trait of someone about to kill himself. He was not on a suicide watch.
Medical experts have cast doubt on the official account of his death. He was approximately six foot tall yet hung himself with a blanket tied to a four foot high bed.
His neck suffered three fractures, something that is difficult to reconcile with the mechanics of having hanged himself without the involvement of another person.
The ligature mark on his neck did not match the dimension of the blanket which he allegedly used to hang himself.
The cameras covering his cell were not working during his last hours.
His prison guards allegedly slept through his preparation for, and the execution of, his suicide.
There are other perplexing matters. The picture of the dead Epstein is not identical to those of the living man in two respects: {i} the nose of the corpse is curved, not straight; {ii} the ear folds appear different.
These discrepancies have generated concerns that will have to be addressed if US authorities want to quell fears that Epstein was (a) murdered or (b) spirited out of prison while a dead body double was placed in his cell.
A DNA test would settle the charge that he may still be alive.
(This article is an updated version of one published in Village magazine in 2020.)
David Burke is the author of four books published by Mercier Press.
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