Tag: Sir Maurice Oldfield

• 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.…

  Covert History Ireland

  23 August 2025

  ARMS CRISIS, 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

• 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…

  Covert History Ireland

  6 April 2025

  Kincora, MI5, MI6, Mountbatten, Louis, Oldfield, Maurice, Royal Family

  Alfred Arnold, Chris Luke, Guy Burgess, Guy Liddell, Henry McIlhenny, ian Paisley, James Molyneaux, John McKeague, kincora, Knox Cunningham, Louis Mountbatten, mi5, mi6, peter england, Peter Montgomery, Portora Royal School, Richard Deacon, Sir Anthony Blunt, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Tom Driberg, William McGrath

• 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 Crown. 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 rape…

  Covert History Ireland

  9 March 2025

  FBI, Kincora, MI5, MI6, NATO, Royal Family

  Alan Campbell, Alfred Arnold, Amal, Andrew Lownie, Anglo-Irish Vice Ring, Brian Gemmell, Brian McDermott, Carl Beech, Christopher Luke, Colin Wallace, Denis Payne, Ebook, Edgar J Hoover, FBI, Harvey Proctor, Ian Cameron, IICSA, James Molyneaux, Jimmy Savile, john imrie, John McKeague, Joseph Mains, Ken Larmour, kincora, King Charles, Knox Cunningham, Larry Wren, Louis Mountbatten, mi5, mi6, NATO, Paul Foot, peter england, Peter Montgomery, Peter Wright, Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth II, Raymond Semple, Red Hand Commando, Richard Kerr, robin bryans, RUC, Sir Anthony Blunt, Sir George Terry, Sir Howard Smith, Sir John Jones, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Sir MIchael Hanley, Stephen Warning, Tara, VIP sex abuse, WebBook, William McGrath, YMCA

• MI6 smeared John Hume. MI5 and the Gardaí spied on him in Dublin. [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…

  Covert History Ireland

  7 November 2024

  Haughey, Charles, MI5, MI6

  Alan English, Albert ‘Ginger’ Baker, Bill Clinton, Bloody Sunday, Brian Crozier, British-Irish Association, Cardinal Conway, Cover Up, Dame Daphne Park, David Astor, Denis Payne, Ebook, Edward Heath, Edward Short, Garret FitzGerald, Hans Welser, Hugh Mooney, Ian Cameron, IPU, IRD, Jack Lynch, John Hume, John Wyman, joseph de burca, Ken McCallum, Kenneth Littlejohn, Larry Wren, LG, mi5, mi6, Michael Daly, Michael Lillis, Michael McCaul, Richard Moore, Seamus Mallon, Sean Donlon, Sir Anthony O’Reilly, Sir Maurice Oldfield, T. E. Utley, T. G. Baker, Ulster Workers Council, WebBook

• 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…

  Covert History Ireland

  4 March 2023

  Hart Inquiry, MI5, Oldfield, Maurice

  Alan Campbell, Bernard Sheldon, Brian Cubbon, Brian Gemmell, Brian McDermott, Chris Ryder, Colin Wallace, David Goodall, David Johnson, Denis Payne, Ebook, Frank Cooper, George Caskey, Hal Doyne-Ditmas, harold wilson, Ian Cameron, James Miller (MI5), James Prior, Jock Shaw, John Groves, John Hume, John Shaw, Judge Hughes, Kevin Dowling, kincora, Liam Cosgrave, Lord RObert Armstrong, Lt Col Jeremy Railton, mi5, mi6, Michael Cary, Peter Wright, Richard Kerr, Robert Fisk, Roy Garland, RUC, Sir Anthony Hart, Sir George Terry, Sir James Dunnett, Sir John Hermon, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Sir MIchael Hanley, Sir Patrick Walker, Tara, UWC, VIP sex abuse, WebBook, William McGrath

• 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…

  Covert History Ireland

  4 October 2020

  Irish Times, Kincora, MI5, MI6, Oldfield, Maurice, RUC

  Fred Holroyd, Gerry Fitt, Hugh Mooney, Irish Times, kincora, Louis Hammond, mi5, Sir Maurice Oldfield, William McGrath

• 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…

  Covert History Ireland

  28 March 2018

  Intelligence Security and Covert Action, Kincora, MI5

  Andrew Parker, Anglo-Irish Vice Ring, Edward Heath, Greville Janner, Ian Cameron, ian Paisley, john imrie, joseph de burca, Joseph Mains, Judge Anthony Hart, Ken Livingstone, kincora, Liam Clarke, mi5, NIO, peter england, Richard Kerr, RUC, Sir Cyril Smith, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Sir Peter Hayman, Sir Peter Morrison, Sir William Van Straubenzee, William Whitelaw

• From the Vaults Ted Heath:

  

  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.

  Covert History Ireland

  9 October 2017

  Intelligence Security and Covert Action, Kincora, MI5

  Alexis Jay, Alfred Arnold, Anglo-Irish Vice Ring, Anthony Blunt, Basil Brooke, child abuse, Cover Up, Don Hale, DUP, Edward Heath, Eric Witchell, ian Paisley, John McKeague, John Stalker, joseph de burca, Joseph Mains, Judge Anthony Hart, kincora, Knox Cunningham, LG, LLG, Lord Shackleton, Louis MacNeice, mi5, mi6, Michael Veale, MRF, NIO, Northern Ireland, Operation Clockwork Orange, paedophilia, peter england, Peter Montgomery, Peter Wright, Portora Royal School, Red Hand Commando, Richard Kerr, robin bryans, Royal Family, Sir James Dunnett, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Tim Fortescue, William McGrath, William van Straubenzee, William Whitelaw, Williamson House, YMCA