Why Did Both Sinn Féin And The PSNI Want The Boston Project Shut Down?

Dixie Elliot ✍ Ask Yourselves This 🪶 Why Did Both Sinn Féin And The PSNI Want The Boston Project Shut Down?

This so called reformed 'police service' continues to withhold the files on RUC collusion with Loyalist murder gangs, such as the Miami Showband Massacre, the mass murder in Sean Graham's Betting Shop and the Loughinisland Massacre, to name but a few. In fact they arrested the investigative journalists, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who exposed the Loughinisland collusion in their No Stone Unturned documentary.

Yet Sinn Féiners such as Gerry Kelly and this rat Rory Donaghy sit on policing boards with them and only open their mouths for a bit of banter or to bite into a ginger nut.

Without a shadow of doubt both the PSNI and Sinn Féin feared what would be exposed about 'The Dirty War' in the recorded interviews. Don't forget that it wasn't just Republicans who were giving these interviews but Loyalists as well. I've heard that former British soldiers were about to become involved in a similar project unconnected to Boston.

What really shook the Sinn Féiners was The Dark revealing that 'Belfast was rotten' and how right that turned out to be.

The real touts had to brand the whistle-blower as a tout so they unleashed the rabid dogs on Brendan.

Rabid dogs like Danny 'The Rat in a Hat' Morrison and Rory the Unknown Shinner Donaghy.

The interviewees in the Boston Project didn't give their names, only the person doing the interviews knew who they were. They used a letter of the alphabet - Interviewee A etc - that's why the PSNI where so desperate to find out who they were, that they brought Bobby Storey in for four hours to listen to the recordings. Obviously to try and put names to the voices.

I remember when he got 'released' from his duties he was given 'a heroes return' in some Belfast drinking club. He made it obvious what he was really doing while 'under arrest' when he started slagging off the interviewees, calling them Walter Mittys etc.

Now here's the thing, the only person charged because of the interviews was, as we know, another legendary IRA Volunteer, Ivor Bell.

Ivor was charged because Gerry Adams publicly accused him of being 'Interviewee Z.

Did Big Bob recognise Ivor's voice?

I only met Ivor a few times and would have no bother recognising his soft-spoken voice so it's without a shadow of a doubt that Storey or Gerry Adams did.

As for The Rat in a Hat Danny Morrison, he would have known all this but he's just a rat who wears a stupid hat and lies a lot.

The most ironic thing about all of this is that Ernie O'Malley, the legendary IRA Volunteer from the War of Independence, did a similar set of interviews with surviving Volunteers from that period during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Thomas Dixie Elliot is a Derry artist and a former H Block Blanketman.

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