NORTHERN IRELAND
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Security chiefs at MI5 and MI6 have told a public inquiry there is no evidence they knew about or covered up child abuse at the former Kincora Boys’ Home in the 1970s.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence has also rejected allegations that its staff deliberately withheld information about illegal activities at the east Belfast facility and used it as part of a propaganda operation, the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has heard.
In a statement, a senior MI6 manager, known only as Officer A, said a review of documents had found nothing to substantiate persistent claims of state-sponsored child prostitution and blackmail.
He said: “I have seen nothing to indicate any involvement on the part of Secret Intelligence Service officers in abuse at the Kincora Boys’ Home or in any attempts to cover it up.
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