Rotten To The Core

Dixie Elliot ✊According to the Kenova Report Scappaticci sent word to his handlers that the net was closing in on the tout Joe Fenton.

What is more shocking is that 'some twenty separate sources warned the intelligence services that Fenton was highly likely to be shot.'

What this means is that there were twenty other touts in high enough positions to have knowledge that Fenton's days were numbered.

The Dark was right, Belfast was indeed rotten . . .

He was told to return by his handlers. Fenton returned to Belfast and was immediately executed by the IRA before I could get to interrogate him. I believe he was executed to protect someone bigger than him. I got actually very frightened that I discovered something here that was mirky, that was high-level, I was getting no help from anybody in Belfast. I didn't trust Belfast. Belfast was rotten . . . - Brendan 'The Dark' Hughes.

When Brendan informed Gerry Adams of this he was told that he was being paranoid.

So Adams told the Director of GHQ Intelligence (Brendan), someone whose commitment to the IRA was beyond doubt, that he was being paranoid when he informed him that Belfast was rotten to the core. Adams didn't as much as have Brendan's claims investigated.

So Brendan walked away from the organisation he loved.

In the end Brendan was proven to have been totally correct in his assessment of the IRA in Belfast. Besides Scappaticci there were twenty other high-ranking touts in the city alone.

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