Tag: Fred Holroyd

• Nest of Spies.

  

  1. Introduction. I remember being struck by a passage in the late Kennedy Lindsay’s book, ‘The British Intelligence Services In Action’ (1981). Lindsay, a Unionist politician, alleged that MI6: ‘has numerous agents and informants [in the Republic of Ireland], including many at high levels in the civil service, police, and armed services. The territory had been part…

  Covert History Ireland

  23rd August 2025

  Crinnion, Patrick, FitzGerald, Garret, Garvey, Ned, Haughey, Charles, IRA, MI6, Oldfield, Maurice

  Andrew Ward, Arms Crisis, Charles Haughey, Colin Wallace, Colm Browne, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Craig Smellie, David Neligan, Earl of Granard, Erskine Childers, Fred Holroyd, Frederick Boland, G2, Garret FitzGerald, General Sean Collins-Powell, Gerry Jones, Guy Liddel, IRA, IRD, Jack Lynch, James Gibbons, John D. Moore, John Kelly, John McCoy, John Peck, John Wyman, Larry Wren, Liam Cosgrave, mi5, mi6, Michael Daly, Ned Garvey, Neil Blaney, Patrick Crinnion, Patrick Malone, Peter Berry, Peter Evans, Rita Dudley, Robert Briscoe, Robin Jackson, Ronnie Burroughs, RUC, Sir Andrew Gilchrist, Sir Anthony O’Reilly, Sir John Maffey, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Sir Sir Alexander Clutterbuck, The Badger, Thomas Coyne, Thomas Mullen, Tom Conaty, UVF, Vincent Heavin, Virgil Randolph III, WebBook

• Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 3. Margaret Thatcher and William Whitelaw cover-up child abuse.

  

  By David Burke. Chapter 8. Framing Colin Wallace for Manslaughter. 113. The Home Secretary (former NI Secretary) and Deputy Prime Minister. On 7 July 1980, Jeff Edwards of London’s Evening News, revealed the Metropolitan police had passed files to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Twelve men faced up to 350 sexual offences including allegations…

  Covert History Ireland

  11th March 2023

  Kincora, MI5, MI6

  Allan Rowley, Anthony Cavendish, Archie Hamilton, Brian Blackwell, Clive Ponting, David Calcutt, David McKittrick, Dr Ian West, Ebook, Fred Holroyd, Ian Cameron, James Molyneaux, John McKeague, Knox Cunningham, Lobster magazine, Malcolm Turnbull, margaret thatcher, mi5, mi6, Operation Clockwork Orange, Patrick Finucane, peter england, Peter Wright, RUC, Sir Anthony Blunt, Sir Desmond de Silva, Sir George Terry, Sir Howard Smith, Sir John Jones, Sir Michael Quinlan, Sir Patrick Walker, Terence Higgins, Tom King, VIP sex abuse, WebBook, William McGrath, William van Straubenzee, William Whitelaw

• 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…

  Covert History Ireland

  4th January 2023

  Historic magazines and pamphlets, MI5, RUC, UVF

  Dublin and Monaghan bombings, Fred Holroyd, From the Vaults, G2, harold wilson, Lt Col John Morgan, mi5, mi6, Northern Ireland, RTE, RUC, SMIU