NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
At least one MI6-run agent was aware of sexual abuse being committed in a notorious Belfast boys’ home, according to one of the agency’s historic intelligence documents.
A classified MI6 note containing the claim about the Kincora abuse scandal was presented in evidence as a senior ranking MI6 officer was questioned at Northern Ireland’s Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry.
But the anonymised deputy director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), referred to as officer A as he testified via video-link, rejected any suggestion his organisation was aware of the abuse.
He told the inquiry panel that an extensive trawl of MI6’s files could find no other documentary evidence to corroborate the 1989 note.
“We have found nothing that was written at the same time that justifies that assertion or nothing in our subsequent records that backs up that assertion,” he said.
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