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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…