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Phoenix, Part IV.
The last edition of The Phoenix appeared on 5 June 2026. In this, the last of this series, we look at the spooky stories that appeared in The Phoenix in 2026. There were two articles about Sean O’Callaghan and the murder of John Cocoran. This is the second of the pair. There was a story…
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How Soldier F was named and why he is still being protected by the British Establishment.
David Cleary is the real name of Soldier F. He is the former lance corporal responsible for leading the cold-blooded and calculated murder spree committed by the EFGH unit of Support Company of 1 Para on Bloody Sunday. Maj. General Patrick MacLellan helped me when I was writing ‘Kitson’s Irish War‘. MacLellan passed away in…
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The Bloody Sunday Plot.
Introduction. The official position of the British Government relating to Bloody Sunday is based on the 2010 report of Lord Saville of Newdigate, i.e., that a group of paratroopers engaged in the massacre of thirteen innocent people in Derry, with a fourteenth dying later, for no reason. Unfortunately, Saville ignored or discounted substantial evidence indicating…
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Mobile torture chamber.
Introduction. The brutality displayed by David Cleary (Soldier F) and Ron Cook (Soldier G) of 1 Para on Bloody Sunday in Derry on 30 January 1972 was not an aberration. After murdering a string of unarmed civilians, they were taken to Fort George, where they beat up a group of innocent prisoners, including a priest.…
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Soldier G.
By David Burke. Soldier G was Soldier F’s ‘partner’. Both soldiers served with the Support Company of 1 Para. Soldier F’s real name is David Cleary. Soldier G was Ronald Alan Cook. Cook was a private in 1 Para on Bloody Sunday. His military number was 24180769. He was probably 21 at the time of…
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Kitson, Afghanistan and Iraq.
By David Burke. 1. The counter-insurgency gurus. From 1970 to 1972, Brigadier (later General Sir) Frank Kitson served as Brigadier of 39 Brigade in Belfast. Some argue he damaged relations between the British government and the Nationalist community more than any other individual in the British Army. This website has many stories about Kitson, and…
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Prime Suspects.
Introduction: Margaret Thatcher, MI5 and the cold-blooded murder of an Irish lawyer. The independent public inquiry into the murder of Patrick Finucane hopes to examine ‘to what extent were his killers encouraged, assisted, protected or directed’ by the British state, at least according to barrister Matthew Hill, its lead counsel. He added that, ‘There is…
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Bring Back The Phoenix, Part III. Check out 50 plus stories from 2025.
Continuing our campaign to bring back The Phoenix magazine, here is a selection of stories from 2025 which underline what we are missing. They cover MI5 and MI6 dirty tricks, neutrality, and much more besides. A selection from 2026 will appear next week. The PDF at the end of this article includes a selection of…
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‘EFGH’
By David Burke. 1. ‘No other perpetrator involved would be given anonymity, for some reason, Soldier F is a protected species.’ In 2021, Colum Eastwood MP of the SDLP was named ‘Soldier F ’ in the House of Commons, under privilege. ‘Soldier F’ had faced murder charges for his actions on Bloody Sunday, which…
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Kitson’s Private Army.
By David Burke. Brigadier Frank Kitson ran the 39th Airborne Brigade area, i.e. Belfast, as if he were a mob boss with the city ashis patch. He let the paratroopers under his command run riot in that domain. Some of the more decent and honourable British Army officers were aghast at their excesses and asked…
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Bring back The Phoenix Part II: 50+ espionage and dirty trick stories from 2024.
Click on the link below to read a selection of stories from The Phoenix 2024, including: Brig. Frank Kitson’s dirty war; what really happened on Bloody Sunday (not the nonsense in the Savile Inquiry report); Patrick Crinnion, MI6’s spy inside the Gardaí; the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; Barrie Gane of MI6; Freddie Scappaticci; the Kincora…
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Bring back The Phoenix. In the meantime here are approximately 30 dirty trick intelligence stories from 2020 to 2023.
The Phoenix ceased publication in June 2026. The magazine was the only real source of articles about collusion, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings, Kincora, MI5 dirty tricks and attacks on Irish neutrality, etc, on Irish newsstands. It has to be brought back – somehow. Otherwise, we will be relying on The Irish Times and other similar publications…
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From the Vaults: Capt. Robert Nairac.
Many articles, books and documentaries have been written about Capt. Robert Nairac, who was killed by Republicans on 15 May 1977. This article appeared in November 1977. His body has never been recovered. Covert History’s account of his role in the Dublin and Monaghan bombing and the UVF’s Glenanne Gang can be found in the…
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From Russia with Lethality.
By David Burke. In October 1977, Hibernia, a weekly Dublin periodical, published an article by Brian Trench about the assassination of Seamus Costello, Chief of Staff of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). The Hibernia article is rich in detail about the feuding between the INLA and the Official IRA. Costello had once been a…
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Andy Burnham (Webbook)
By David Burke. Introduction. In the early 1970s, Colin Wallace tried to expose the horrific sex abuse at Kincora Boys’ Home. For doing so, he was driven out of his job at British Army HQ at Lisburn by a series of dirty tricks, perpetrated by MI5. He had served as Senior Information Officer at Lisburn…
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Lying like a trooper.
By David Burke. 1. Where was the ‘EFGH’ Unit of Support Company of 1 Para during the Ballymurphy Massacre? Internment began on 9 August 1971. By the 11th, ten people had been murdered by paratroopers in Ballymurphy. Decades later, the coroner who oversaw the inquest for the victims of the Ballymurphy massacre confirmed that…
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Natural Born Killer.
By David Burke. Brigadier (later General) Frank Edward Kitson was responsible for the Ballymurphy massacre. He was the Brigadier of 39 Brigade – that is to say he was the officer in charge of all British soldiers in Belfast during the Ballymurphy massacre. His accomplice was Colonel Derek Wilford, the then commander of 1 Para.…
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Mentioned in Despatches.
By David Burke. Internment – arrest and detention without trial – was introduced by the Stormont Government of Northern Ireland in August 1971. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and detained. Members of the UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando were not targeted for arrest. The swoops were carried out by British troops including the…
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Missing UVF Bomb Massacre Files.
On 4 December 8:45 p.m., a UVF gang set out on a bombing mission. One of those involved was Robert James Campbell. The UVF bomb exploded outside a small pub in Belfast called McGurk’s, a cosy place where Catholics and Protestants from the same neighbourhood – all of whom knew each other well – met…
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Kitson-RUC plot to safeguard the UVF.
The campaign for the truth about the infamous McGurk’s bar bombing of 1971 has uncovered the existence of a covert intrigue hatched by the British Army’s counter-insurgency (i.e., dirty tricks) guru, Brigadier Frank Kitson, and the RUC, to conceal the truth about the UVF’s bomb attack massacre at McGurk’s bar in 1971. Kitson and the…
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McGurk’s Bar cover-up.
Tory PM Edward Heath concealed the identity of a paramilitary organisation which perpetrated a massacre in Belfast in 1971. He did so in the hope of acquiring the votes he needed to win a majority in the House of Commons to enable the UK to join the EEC, the forerunner of the EU. What he…
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Kitson’s foreknowledge of a third massacre.
New evidence has emerged about the UVF’s bombing of McGurk’s Bar in Belfast in December 1971. The explosion caused the entire structure of the premises to collapse, killing fifteen Catholic civilians – including two children – and wounding seventeen more. It was the deadliest attack in Belfast during the Troubles. Brigadier (later General Sir) Frank…
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BBC.
Chris Moore posted a story on Ed Moloney’s Broken Elbow website in 2023. It blew the lid off attempts by MI5, the RUC, and BBC management to suppress vitally important facts about the Kincora scandal. The story subsequently appeared in his new book on the Kincora scandal, ‘Kincora, Britain’s Shame‘ (2025). MI5 had plenty of…
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Double Standard
Introduction. In Dáil Éireann, Taoiseach Micheál Martin called on the British Government to name Agent Stakeknife, who he says is known to be Freddie Scappaticci. This transparency and openness, Martin believes, will help relatives of those killed by the IRA’s brutal Internal Security Unit, led by agent Stakeknife, among others. His appeal followed calls by…
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Mooney (Webbook)
Hugh Mooney, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, worked at The Irish Times before becoming the UK’s foremost black propagandist in the early 1970s. Among his many successes, he distorted the truth about what happened on Bloody Sunday, the bombing of McGurk’s bar and circulated smears about John Hume. The Bloody Sunday and John Hume…
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Spoiler alert.
Introduction: ‘Nobody’s Girl‘, the memoirs of the late Virginia Giuffre (née Roberts), has just been published. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked Giuffre to Andrew Mountbatten Winsor for sexual abuse as a minor. She committed suicide last April. On the same day her book appeared, a slew of similar-looking publications went on sale on Amazon…
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The Resistance Men (Webbook).
© Deirdre Younge. Introduction. ‘What were they trying to do around here .. create civil war?‘ (Willie Frazer, referring to the intelligence services operating in the 1970s in Armagh. (2016)) During the ‘Troubles’ Armagh, Tyrone and Down were the cockpit of a vicious war which descended into sectarianism fuelled by collusion. Intelligence material submitted to…
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Psyop (Webbook)
In November 2025, a British ‘security expert’ inadvertently disclosed the broad outline of a British-led psychological operation (PsyOp) to undermine Irish neutrality to London’s Financial Times. The paper revealed that an anti-neutrality campaign was underway, although ‘still far from fruition and would have to be extremely carefully managed‘. The purpose of the operation was to…
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Jean McConville
‘It is like peeling an onion, and the more you peel them away, the more you feel like crying. There are two laws running this country: one for them (the intelligence services) and one for the rest of us,’ Miller told Paul Foot in ‘Who Framed Colin Wallace‘, p246. The chief suspect for the role of Jean…
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Nest of Spies (Webbook).
1. Introduction. Part 1: A bloodsoaked start, after which cooperation was achieved. 2. From the elimination of the Cairo Gang to intelligence cooperation. 3. Spying on a Zionist TD for MI5. 4. Cooperation during the IRA’s Operation Harvest. Part 2. An aristocratic spy ring. 5. ‘It was as simple as picking up a phone.’ 6.…
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The Prince and the Pauper (Webbook).
1. A FOG OF FEAR AT BREFFNI NURSERY 1969-1974. INCARCERATING TODDLERS WHO CRIED AT NIGHT IN A PITCH-BLACK BOILER ROOM. ALAN AGED 0-6. 2. RAPE AT WILLIAMSON HOUSE, 1974-1978. ALAN KERR WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ON HIS FIRST NIGHT AT WILLIAMSON HOUSE. HE WAS ONLY 6 YEARS OLD. ALAN AGED 6-9. 3. MISERY AND MORE SEXUAL…
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Kneeling Nation.
1. The Pervert Prince, Epstein and Prince Andrew. 2.‘He had no boundaries.’ 3. A sex pest, bully and a boor. 4. Why can’t he be told to ‘sod off’? 5. The stamp of a thief. 6. Above the law: a licence to commit crime. 7. He was let off on the grounds: ‘I’m in a…
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Running Stakeknife
The Operation Kenova report on Stakeknife makes it clear MI5 were aware of Scappaticci’s activities from his initial recruitment. They were involved in briefing and tasking him via his FRU handlers. MI5 broke into Kenova’s document safe while they were working in the Services offices. Kenova is a PSNI commissioned report, authored by two former…
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The complexities of Loyalism. By Roy Garland.
A ginger group in the Orange Order known as “Cell” was led by Canon Ernest Long who said “Cell” was taken from the idea of a small seed that could influence a larger group. I assume the larger group was the Orange Order. William McGrath joined Cell in the 1960s and Canon Long, was uncomfortable…
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The strange death of Harry Breen. By Deirdre Younge.
In April 2017, Village magazine published this article by Deirdre Younge which revealed another side to Chief Superintendent Harry Breen of the RUC. Breen was shot dead by the IRA in 1989. He served as Commander H Division (Armagh and parts of Down) from March 1988 to ’89. His death was the subject of the…
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Donaldson Dossier (Webbook)
Introduction: A lesson in real-life politics for slow learners. The Kincora Boys’ Home child sex abuse scandal erupted in 1980. It never went away. There are links between it and the case of Jeffrey Donaldson, the former DUP leader who was arrested in 2024 on child abuse charges, and convicted in 2026. Shadowy intelligence agencies…
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The Gathering Storm.
In this article, Roy Garland explains how Loyalist leaders such as William McGrath were making dire predictions about the intentions of the IRA as the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising approached. Roy Garland witnessed these developments at first hand. Soon, he was dedicating himself to the peace process believing in the “interconnectednes between everyone…
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A Walk on the Dark Side. [WebBook.]
Part 1. British Agents in Ireland. The PPS in Northern Ireland will not charge an unnamed agent who worked undercover in Northern Ireland for UK intelligence services. This is despite the fact he admitted to carrying out murders in the course of working undercover. The agent’s admission was made while instructing intelligence officers in spycraft.…
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Mountbatten exposed, 1990.
1. Media disinterest allowed child abuse to continue. 2. Robin Bryans. 3. A wider vice network than just Kincora. It included Portora Royal, Williamson House and Bawnmore. 4. Mountbatten and Portora. 5. Lord Rosse of Birr Castle. 6. A fear of certain elements of the press in the Republic of Ireland. 7. A pair of…
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Running with Wolves. The questions the former RUC will face over their failure to prevent the Omagh massacre. MI5 appears undaunted. [WebBook]
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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Hooded men.
1. No one shouted ‘Stop’. 2. The ‘Beasting’ of prisoners in Derry 3. Torture and mutilation 4. Torture and mutilation as a counter-insurgency tactic in Her Majesty’s Colonies 5. The Hooded Men. 6. Delegating murder and torture to British agents in Loyalist paramilitary gangs. 7. Torture, mutilation and murder by a British agent in the…
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Tara’s roots.
In this article, Roy Garland describes the origins of Tara, an armed Loyalist paramilitary organisation. Garland was once a member of Tara. It was led by William McGrath. Tara was once part of the Orange Order. It had supporters in the Republic of Ireland and later linked up with the UVF. There were also international…
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The Judicial Fixer (Webbook).
1. Brigadier Frank Kitson subverts the law. 2. Judicial compromise. 3. An Allegedly Independent Judge pre-judges the Murder Victims by Attending a Meeting at which they were referred to as ‘the other side’ 4. Threats to Muzzle the Ever Compliant British Media 5. Black Propaganda 6. John Hume wanted an “independent authority” to conduct the inquiry 7. Fabricated Evidence. 8. Lord Saville…
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Returning the Serve, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings of 1974. [WebBook]
Introduction: Dublin City was rocked by three car bomb explosions on 17 May 1974. The devices detonated in a coordinated fashion at approximately 5.30; all within ninety seconds of each other. Twenty-six people and a full-term unborn child (Baby Doherty) were slaughtered. No warnings were provided. Ninety minutes later, a fourth car bomb exploded in…
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LBC
Roy Garland joined TARA as a young man. TARA was a paramilitary organisation commanded by William McGrath. Garland was also asked to join the mysterious ‘London Belfast Committee’ by McGrath. Very little is known about it. Garland turned down the offer and, hence, did not discover its inner workings. Nonetheless, he suspected it was an…
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Omagh.
The Real IRA bombed Omagh in 1998. Twenty-nine people perished. Deirdre Younge, a former Current Affairs Editor in RTE, wrote this article for Village magazine in November 2021. Since then, the British Government has established an inquiry into the atrocity. It is being chaired by Judge Alan Turnbull. Peter Keeley, a British agent who had…
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The Mountbatten Dossier. [WebBook]
UPDATE: 30 June 2026: Richard Kerr, a victim of child sex abuse perpetrated by Lord Louis Mountbatten and others, has accepted the sum of £100,000 in compensation from the UK state. Richard Kerr was abused by Mountbatten at Classiebawn, Co. Sligo, in 1977. Kerr’s case was that a paedophile ring subjected him to years of…
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Hart Report
When I first read parts of the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry, led by Sir Anthony Hart, I was shocked at the amount of disinformation in it. I spoke with the late Brian Garrett, a lawyer who was nearby. I told him I intended to take legal action against the Inquiry, but he said…
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False flag.
In the September 2019 edition of Village magazine, Deirdre Younge described how MI5 fabricated a Loyalist arms importation to frighten the Dublin government. The MI5 ‘false flag’ operation was launched in 1993, on the verge of an IRA ceasefire Deirdre Younge was a reporter with Hibernia magazine and a Current Affairs Programmes Editor in RTE…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 1 [WebBook.]
By David Burke. 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 eye to a wide spectrum of sexual offences committed by the elite of British society. At least three forces became the instruments of amoral politicians and their…
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Shooting to kill? [WebBook]
Author Michael O’Connell has long had an interest in the Stalker affair. He had the opportunity of discussing it at length with John Stalker during a visit the latter made to Nottingham in 1989, after his retirement from the Manchester police. O’Connell had developed his own sources about the killing of the six civilians described in this…
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Sir Richard White’s black heart (Webbook).
Introduction. In 1971, 342 people were swept up by the British army and interned, i.e. subjected to indefinite detention without a trial. Britain’s intelligence community was looking for people they hoped would be able to provide them with information about members of the IRA. 14 men were chosen for ‘special treatment’ and taken to a secret…
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Prince Philip’s illicit sex life was monitored by Soviet spies. [WebBook]
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 London during the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1972,…
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s mentor.
1. THE CONVICTED CHILD RAPIST WHO LED THE DUP. 2. FAMILY VALUES 3. A COMMENDABLE NEW DEPARTURE FOR THE PSNI UNDER JON BOUTCHER. 4. THE COVER-UP OF VIP SEX ABUSE 5. SIR JEFFREY DONALDSON’S POLITICAL MENTOR. 6. ENOCH POWELL AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND REVIEW INTO HISTORICAL CHILD SEX ABUSE. 7. BELT AND BUCKLE, ENOCH…
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Stakeknife, the spy with no name
Iain Livingston who now heads Operation Kenova since Jon Boutcher was appointed Chief Constable, is in the bizarre position of not being able to name the alleged British Army/MI5 superspy, ‘Stakeknife‘. Livingston took over Operation Kenova after Jon Boutcher was appointed Chief Constable of the RUC. He is now appealing to the British Government to…
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Kincora death threats.
Introduction: Roy Garland was an associate of William McGrath, the infamous housefather of Kincora Boys’ Home. Garland discovered McGrath’s true nature long before McGrath was sent to work at Kincora. McGrath was a paedophile and sexual predator. Garland discovered this through his involvement in Faith House in Belfast where McGrath ran a Christian mission. Garland…
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MI6 smeared John Hume. He was also placed under MI5 surveillance in Dublin with the assistance of the Gardaí. [WebBook]
A webbook 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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Whitehall sought dirt on John Hume.
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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Libya
The British Government are refusing to directly compensate victims of IRA Libyan supplied weapons and semtex explosives out of the former overthrown leader Muammaur Gaddafi’s funds frozen in British banks. They also refuse to publish a report they commissioned on the issue of compensation from ex-journalist and member of the Charity Commission, William Shawcross.The PSNI…
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Reputations in tatters.
1. A David and Goliath battle involving the survivor of child rape. The Kincora Boys’ Home child sex abuse scandal has tarnished, if not demolished, the reputations of an array of people, including politicians, who have tried to cover it up. (See section 8 below.) Some of them will be remembered by history for nothing…
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The child sex abuse at Faith House has never been investigated. By Roy Garland, who knew William McGrath.
1. Faith House – where the future ‘house father’ of Kincora abused boys. Fewer than 30 boys are thought to have been abused at Kincora whereas one of the abusers, William McGrath, had earlier abused an unknown number, perhaps more than a hundred, and a lesser number of women, at his independent Christian Mission in…
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The Collusion Spectrum. By Deirdre Younge.
In 2019 the BBC’s investigative ‘Spotlight’ programme added significantly to a body of evidence exposing widespread collusion across the Loyalist spectrum from the DUP to the UVF to MI5. Deirdre Younge revealed more in an article in Village magazine. It can be downloaded here:
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The DUP, God’s Soldiers. [WebBook]
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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Donaldson and Molyneaux.
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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Scappaticci’s true barbaric value to MI5.
Contents: 1. Scappaticci, a sexually deviant, sadistic torturer and mass murderer. 2. MI5 controlled Scappaticci. Kenova has ignored his real – and barbaric – value to MI5. 3. The Baroness from MI5 purrs with delight. The operation was a ‘bad’ one, not to mention, ‘a disgraceful’ one. 4. Missing MI5 files turn up. 5. A…
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Killusion.
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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Life and Death in South Armagh. [WebBook.]
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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Collecting kompromat. [WebBook.]
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…
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Blackmailing Thatcher.
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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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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Kincora’s darkest secret.
By David Burke. Kincora Boys’ Home was demolished in 2022. 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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The Mystery of the Missing Mountbatten Diaries
By Andrew Lownie. In 2015 I started researching my biography ‘The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves’. Little did I know then that six years later it would have locked me into a marathon legal battle with the Government and Southampton University. My quest was to find out what had happened to the personal diaries of…
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Scappaticci’s Dublin Payday.
‘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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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 4: The Never Ending Cover-Up. MI5 will never admit what it did in Ireland.
By David Burke. [Volumes 1-3 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.] 167. The Cabinet Office knew the report into the sex abuse at Kincora Boys’ Home by Sir George Terry contained a lie. While David Calcutt…
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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…
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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…
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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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Misrepresenting Haughey’s relationship with the Provos. The Irish Times promoted the Official IRA’s version of the Arms Crisis.
The Irish Times promoted the Official IRA’s version of the Arms Crisis
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Updated: The very best (and worst) of British.
Dolphin Square VIP sex abuse. Dolphin Square was opened in London’s Pimlico in 1936. It soon became a magnet for all sorts of scandal and intrigue: espionage, political, sexual, not to mention mysterious deaths. ‘Scandal at Dolphin Square’ provides a riveting account of the lives of a rolling maul of fascinating and complex characters. As…
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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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The British ‘Traitor King’ who contemplated settling in Ireland.
By David Burke. Andrew Lownie will be known to many Village readers for the depth of his research into the life of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, especially the former’s abuse of boys in the Republic of Ireland. During his research into Mountbatten, Lownie tried, and failed, to gain access to Garda logs…
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According to Sir George Terry’s report, the 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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Deceitful Terry Report.
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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Prodigal Prince.
Introduction. King Charles III has recieved briefings from two British Secret Service (MI6) chiefs, Sir Richard Moore and Blaize Metriwell, thus far into his reign. Prince William has been courted by the intelligence community, notably making a high-profile visit to the HQ of GCHQ, where British cyber espionage takes place. Queen Elizabeth II received…
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‘God’s Cop’ has gone to meet his maker. He will have a few questions to answer. By DavidBurke.
The article which featured Anderton was about John Stalker and a number of other honourable English police officers and soldiers who had tried to do the right thing in Ireland. The relevant section read as follows: The late John Stalker, the former Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester, investigated the RUC’s shoot to kill programme…
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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…
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Soldier F’s Bloody Sunday secrets. David Cleary knows enough to blackmail the British government.
By David Burke, author of ‘Kitson’s Irish War: Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland’. 1. Kitson’s Private Army. Lance Corporal David Cleary was a member of the elite Support Company of the 1st Parachute Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Derek Wilford. Wilford reported upwards to Brigadier Frank Kitson. All were assigned to 39…
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Learning to kill
Kitson’s first overseas assignment was to Germany in 1946 with the rank of second lieutenant. He remained there for seven years. He found plenty of sport to occupy his spare time such as racing horses in Rhine Army competitions, trout fishing and ‘many wonderful opportunities for shooting … and by shooting I don’t mean plugging…
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Counterinsurgency war criminals.
The denial of justice for political gain. Next week will see the release of the long-awaited inquest report into the Ballymurphy massacre during which British soldiers killed and wounded a large number of unarmed civilians in Belfast. The atrocity took place after the introduction of internment in August of 1971. Adding insult to inqury, the…
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Drew Harris.
By Joseph de Burca. 1. Moloney and Kinchin-White When the Kincora Boys’ Home child abuse scandal first broke, Ed Moloney was one of a number of journalists who reported details about it in the press. Now, Moloney and James Kinchin-White have teamed up to shine a light on the role of the RUC in the…
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Nobody Won: debunking the myth the Provisionals were brought to their knees by British spies. Margaret Urwin reviews ‘The Intelligence War Against the IRA’ by Thomas Leahy.
By Margaret Urwin. In ‘The Intelligence War against the IRA’, Thomas Leahy, Senior Lecturer in Politics in Cardiff University, challenges the growing dominant narrative that the IRA was brought to the negotiating table in the 1990s because they had been ‘brought to their knees’ by British intelligence. Since the outing of State agents, Stakeknife and…
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Andrew Lownie.
By Andrew Lownie. A few weeks ago the Irish Times ran an article on the death of Mountbatten linked to the new series of The Crown in which the murder features in the opening episode. As the author of the most recent biography ‘The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves’, I was interviewed for the piece on…
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Passing by the well: how le Carré ignored Ireland
John le Carré spent most of his career exploring the British psyche through the lens of its secret service. You’d think he might have mentioned Ireland once or twice.
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Chris Ryder.
The legacy of Chris Ryder, the former Sunday Times (ST) journalist who passed away on Friday 2 October 2020, is not one to be proud of: he was one of a number of journalists who helped MI5 and the RUC’s Special Branch cover up the rape of children who had fallen into the grip of…
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Carl Beech.
By David Burke. Introduction. The documentary on the liar and fraud Carl Beech raises the most serious questions about the competence of the BBC which broadcasted it on 24 August. For years Beech masqueraded as the survivor of a VIP sex-abuse ring that allegedly engaged in the rape, torture and murder of children. During his…
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Tune into BBC 2 tonight. From Jimmy Savile to Carl Beech, the BBC’s lamentable coverage of VIP sex abuse.
By Joseph de Burca. The BBC has a lamentable record insofar as VIP sex abuse is concerned. It allowed Jimmy Savile prey on children for decades while countless officials knew what he was like. Johnny Lydon (aka ‘Johnny Rotten’ of the Sex Pistols) was shut down when he tried to expose Savile. If Lydon –…
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Was Thomas Passmore, paedophile, politician and County Grand Master of the Belfast Loyal Orange Lodge, an MI5 agent?
On 16 September last Paul Graham told RTE’s ‘Liveline’ that he had been sexually abused by a senior figure in the Orange Order. Although not named, the abuser was Thomas Passmore, the County Grand Master of Belfast Loyal Orange Lodge. That Passmore was a paedophile will not come as news to the Northern Ireland Office,…
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A SLAP IN THE FACE: MORE ON LARRY WREN, THE MALEVOLENT TORMENTOR OF MAJELLA MOYNIHAN. By Joseph de Burca
Larry Wren has become front-page news again as the Garda Commissioner responsible for driving Majella Moynihan to despair such that she attempted suicide five times, and once ended up in St John of Gods after the witch-hunt to which he and the Garda top brass subjected her in the 1980s when she became pregnant out…
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THE ‘TRIAL’ OF LARRY WREN, THE BIBLE THUMPING BIGOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ABUSE OF FORMER GARDA, MAJELLA MOYNIHAN. By Joseph de Burca
No one who had the misfortune to serve in the Garda during Larry Wren’s bible thumping Reign of Terror as Garda Commissioner, 1983 – 1987, is in the least bit surprised by the Medieval cruelty meted out to former Garda Majella Moynihan by Wren and his lackies when she was a young recruit. Majella Moynihan Wren…
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Dial MI5 for Murder
HAS SPOOK-TURNED-THRILLER WRITER DAME STELLA RIMMINGTON FORGOTTEN WHAT IS IN MI5’s TOP SECRET FILES? Dame Stella Rimmington has just published another of her bestselling Liz Carlyle spy yarns The Moscow Sleepers in time for the Christmas market. In it, the redoubtable Liz is set against some very nasty men from Russia. This has all been…
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Stalin’s Englishman On Trial in Ireland
The paperback edition of Andrew Lownie’s highly regarded Stalin’s Englishman is now on sale with updates which did not appear in the hardback version. It is a riveting biography of the notorious Eton- and Cambridge-educated British spy and traitor Guy Burgess, bristling with new information based on first-hand sources including hitherto unpublished letters and files. Significantly,…
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John Imrie.
John L.L. Imrie, formerly of MI5 and the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), died in June of 2017 without a whisper of his passing reaching the ears of the press. Imrie had the unique distinction of being the only British official ever linked to the Kincora Boys’ Home sex abuse scandal by name in the House…
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The dark side of the media
The British media is aghast at revelations that a man called David Floyd was a Soviet spy. Floyd worked for the Foreign Office in the 1950s and was assigned to a string of Eastern European embassies. He confessed his treachery shortly after the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald McClean to Moscow. Rather than admit…
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Not just Ted Heath: British Establishment paedophilia and its links to Ireland
In the wake of last week’s revelations about the inquiry into former British Prime Minister Ted Heath, Joseph de Búrca looks at a scandal which implicated figures on both sides of the Irish Sea.
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An Offence Against The State
On 1 December 1972 a car bomb exploded beside Liberty Hall in Dublin. Fortunately no one died but George Bradshaw, a CIE bus driver, and Thomas Duffy, a bus conductor, perished in a second explosion at Sackville Place. No one has ever been charged with these crimes. The UVF belatedly claimed sole responsibility for them…
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