[…] the same page (p. 239): The UK network was thus operated by Britain’s intelligence services and selected members of the armed forces. In a very real sense MI5 operated a civil army with trained operatives, and infiltrated them into whichever left-wing group they saw fit. Certain elements of the criminal world were also part […]
[PDF file]: […] the security services accountable as totally lacking in substance, Ministers and the Government have total unaccountable power in this area. This has meant that the security services MI5, MI6 and GCHQ have effectively been exempt from the provisions of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts which were brought in the 1980s and […]
Kincora: Britain’s Shame Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up Chris Moore Newbridge, Ireland; Merrion Press, 2025; p/b €19.99, (£15.00 approx.)1 Robin Ramsay Kincora is one of the great scandals of post-World War 2 British history. Exposure of the actions of a group of pedophiles has been suppressed […]
Kincora: Britain’s Shame Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up Chris Moore Newbridge, Ireland; Merrion Press, 2025; p/b €19.99, (£15.00 approx.)1 Robin Ramsay Kincora is one of the great scandals of post-World War 2 British history. The actions of a group of pedophiles has been suppressed for nearly […]
[PDF file]: […] a strange organisation called Tara.2 The Kincora abuse has been an acutely embarrassing issue for the British state because elements of its secret arms in Northern Ireland, MI5 and the RUC Special Branch, were aware of the abuse of the inmates but chose to ignore it because of MI5’s interest in McGrath. Among the […]
[PDF file]: […] Media in Britain, the strongest criticisms are aimed at politicians and the bureaucratic mismanagement at the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Journalistic responsibility gets off lightly. Strikingly, neither MI5, MI6 nor GCHQ are portrayed as bad in toto. Sometimes the leaders of the intelligence services get too close to politicians, sometimes politicians are simply not […]
[…] kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril H ow do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned […]
[PDF file]: Kincora: Britain’s Shame Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up Chris Moore Newbridge, Ireland; Merrion Press, 2025; p/b €19.99, (£15.00 approx.)1 Robin Ramsay Kincora is one of the great scandals of post-World War 2 British history. Exposure of the actions of a group of pedophiles has been suppressed […]
[PDF file]: […] An Uneasy Relationship? Daniel W B Lomas Manchester University Press, 2017, h/b, £75.00 In December 1945, George Orwell wrote in Tribune wondering what happened to Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 when a Labour government was in office. This was when he still thought the Attlee government might attack the bastions of ruling class power […]
[…] *new* Kincora Ed Moloney’s The Broken Elbow site alerted me to the fact that Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up.2 I will be reviewing this in these columns anon but in the meantime here is […]
