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By Joseph de Burca. John Hume was the victim of a campaign of character assassination in the early 1970s perpetrated by British spies. It was spearheaded by an individual called Hugh Mooney, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, who once worked as a sub-editor for the Irish Times in Dublin. Mooney belonged to the ‘Special […]
Malicious and unfair assaults on the credibility of Richard Kerr, the Kincora whistleblower, are nothing new. The most concerted effort to undermine him so far was one perpetrated by sinister individuals posing as journalists who attempted to get him to join forces with the now notorious conman Carl Beech. This occurred when Beech was featuring […]
A report from the Intelligence and Security Committee (ICI) about Russian interference with British democracy has just been released. ‘In brief’, it declares: “Russian influence in the UK is ‘the new normal’, and there are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social […]
By Joseph de Burca. Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge and other senior Royals continue to retain a sinister cabal of deeply corrupt officials in their employment at Buckingham Palace. These officials bartered access to William and Kate as a bribe to ABC TV in the US in return for the concealment of a child […]
By Joseph de Burca. Introduction. Law-enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic have been – and continue to be – adverse to making inquiries into VIP child sex-abuse. This has been the position for decades. Donald Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was a paedophile who abused boys on both sides of the Atlantic, including one […]
The Smithwick Tribunal concealed its relationship with Freddie Scappaticci whom it treated as a credible source of information while the Kenova Inquiry is investigating him for multiple murders. The Smithwick Tribunal found Garda collusion in murder of RUC officers, but couldn’t name the colluder. This was partly because it allowed a motley band of FRU operatives, […]
CHAPTER 14: THE CASE OF JAMES MOLYNEAUX JAMES MOLYNEAUX, LEADER OF THE OFFICIAL UNIONIST PARTY. 1979 – 1995 James Molyneaux MP was one of the most significant figures in Unionist politics during the Troubles. He was first elected as a Westminster MP in 1970 for the then dominant Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and served as […]
CHAPTER 11: PETER WRIGHT, MI5’S BLACKMAILER SUPREME WRIGHT COULD ADMIT TO MURDER BUT THERE WERE OTHER CRIMES THAT EVEN HE COULD NOT BRING HIMSELF TO ACKNOWLEDGE. THE RAPE OF CHILDREN IN IRELAND MUST HAVE BEEN ONE SUCH SECRET. Peter Wright CBE of MI5 was Britain’s most accomplished blackmailer. He was central to the surveillance and […]
CHAPTER 4: RICHARD KERR, THE ABUSE VICTIM WHO JOINS ALL THE DOTS THE KINCORA SURVIVOR Richard Kerr is the key figure in a full appreciation of the magnitude of the scandal. His horrific experience joins the dots between all of the key figures and developments involved in it. One of the important points to arise […]