Tag: harold wilson
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Returning the Serve, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings of 1974. [WebBook]
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1. London will not share MI5 and MI6’s files with Dublin. 2. The Corbet Lough conspiracy. 3. 2024: A Legal action is being pursued by families and survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. 4. The President who spelt it out. 5. The Government has Garda surveillance records of the people who campaigned for the…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 2.

By David Burke. Chapter 4. A Clash of Interests. 040. Stepping on the toes of MI5. The British Army was not aware that William McGrath, the commander of Tara, a Loyalist paramilitary organisation, was a critical player in MI5’s endeavours to spy on Unionist paedophiles. To the military, he was a terrorist and, therefore, a…
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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…



