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Returning the Serve: ‘The Jackal’, Collusion, MI5, Nairac, and the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. By David Burke.
David Burke is the author of three books published by Mercier Press. His fourth book, ‘The Puppet Masters’, will be published in June 2024. Introduction: Dublin City was rocked by three car bomb explosions on 17 May 1974. The devices detonated in a coordinated fashion at 5.30. Twenty-six people and a full-term unborn child were…
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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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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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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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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…