Forty years ago this month Margaret Thatcher called the veteran MI6 spymaster Maurice Oldfield out of retirement and sent him to Northern Ireland to co-ordinate the activities of the various branches of British Intelligence on the island. Did the KGB know he was gay? Did they learn he had a relationship with the paedophile in charge of Kincora Boys' Home? MI5 investigated him in 1980 to see if he was a traitor.
Forty years ago this month Margaret Thatcher sent Sir Maurice Oldfield, the former Chief of MI6, to Belfast to co-ordinate the activities of the various branches of British Intelligence in Ireland.
Kieran Conway, the former Provisional IRA Director of Intelligence in the 1970s, has confirmed to Village that the Provos knew Oldfield was gay.
In 2017 the Hart Report into child sex abuse published details of an MI6 document which revealed a “small collection of papers in file three which relate to the relationship [Oldfield] had with the Head of the Kincora Boys’ Home (KBH) in Belfast”. The “Head” of Kincora was “Warden” Joseph Mains who abused teenage boys at Kincora and elsewhere.
What, if anything, did the Soviet intelligence apparatus, the KGB, know about Oldfield’s homosexuality? More significantly, if the KGB found out, what did they do with the information? Joseph Mains, according to MI6 records he had a “relationship” and a “friendship” with Oldfield.
The answer is nothing despite the fact it could have destroyed him. Such inaction makes no sense as Oldfield was reputed to have been a highly effective opponent of the KGB. The notorious MI6 traitor Kim Philby described him as an officer of “high quality” and “formidable” in his memoirs.
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ReplyDeleteIn terms of modern sources of blackmail, I wonder with the advent of so called “deepfakes”, whether an Epstein type blackmail scam of leveraging sex tapes can ever be successful again? Who would trust what their eyes see on screen?
A dirty putrid war run by scum.
ReplyDeleteDaithi, on Epstein...he was far too arrogant a man to top himself either, but the whole deepfake thing is very unsettling.
Steve, imagine the signal it sends : we can get to you in jail and the general public will just take it. We will put your kids on hormone blockers and there is nothing you can do. But hey old glory still flies ,means we are still free right?
ReplyDeleteDaithiOD, yep. The puppetmasters know full well that the populace are very easily are distracted by the current pop zeitgeist to actually bother asking uncomfortable questions. A few years and people won't even remember his name.
ReplyDeleteSame as MH370 the last known co-ordinates of which had it heading straight for the sneaky US base on Diego Garcia. Can't tell me the US didn't notice a heavy unresponsive jet that had turned of its transponder heading straight from where they launch Predator drone strikes in Pakistan/Afghanistan.