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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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ONE OF THE ‘GREATEST’. Jeffrey Donaldson was Jim Molyneaux’s personal assistant. Molyneaux was linked to a convicted Kincora child rapist, in a British Army document. Molyneaux led the Unionist Party, 1979-95.
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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 2.
By David Burke. [Volumes 1, 3 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 4. A Clash of Interests. 040. Stepping on the toes of MI5. The British Army was not aware that William McGrath,…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 1 of Covert History Ireland’s new ebook.
By David Burke. [Volumes 2-4 of this ebook can be found by clicking on the top section of this page (purple lettering) which will take you to the home page.] 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…
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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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The Mountbatten dossier, an ebook by David Burke.
1. Outline allegation made. More detailed account awaited. On 17 October 2022 Sharon O’Neill of the Sunday Life newspaper in Belfast reported that an alleged victim of child sex abuse had named Lord Louis Mountbatten as one of his tormentors. His name is Arthur Smyth and he was a temporary resident of Kincora in the 1970s. Kincora…
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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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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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John Hume was the victim of a campaign of character assassination. It was perpetrated by the British Secret Service, MI6, and their colleagues in the IRD, a dirty tricks department of the Foreign Office. Hume was also placed under MI5 surveillance in Dublin with the assistance of the Gardaí.
An ebook 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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A declassified UK memo on John Hume exposes the interest of PM John Major’s top civil servants in “possible press stories regarding John Hume’s private life”.
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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The Libyan connection. By Deirdre Younge
The Kingsberry civil action. The High Court in Belfast has granted permission for the sons of a former member of the UDA William Kingsberry, shot dead by the IRA in 1991, to sue Libya for supplying the kalashnikiov assault rifle used by the IRA unit that killed him. Other victims were killed or injured in…
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Prince Philip’s illicit sex life was monitored by Soviet spies.
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 the London of the late 1950s and early 1960s.…
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According to the report by Sir George Terry, 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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The deceitful Terry Report into Kincora.
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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Spying on the prodigal prince and his American wife. Harry and Megan are surely the targets of surveillance by His Majesty’s secret services. MI6 reported to his mother, Queen Elizabeth II for 70 years. By David Burke.
Introduction. Queen Elizabeth II received briefings from fifteen chiefs of the British Secret Service during her 70 year reign. In the modern era the communications of Prince Harry and his American wife are surely being monitored by Britain’s vast espionage network, in particular, GCHQ. 1. Royal briefings. Richard Moore, the Chief of the British…
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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…