Further insights into the Barbara castle aspect of this story. Well worth listening to. Additionally, it proves beyond doubt that a cover up did take place and that the Wanless Report is worthless and was designed as a deflector shield.

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Investigative reporter, Don Hale, who saw the dossier on child abuse amongst establishment members in the 1980's tells LBC about the explosive information it contained.

Don Hale was editor on a local paper in the 1980's when Barbara Castle, the local MP for Blackburn who he knew from his time working at the BBC, started to provide him with documents that pointed to a paedophile ring operating within Westminster.
"It was quite explosive really, in terms of what she was showing me; there was a paedophile ring operating within the powers of Westminster, and many of the members were actively supporting the PIE (Paedophile Information Exchange) network. I found it quite amazing, and she gradually came in with more and more paperwork."
Ms. Castle was apparently being passed this information by others working in Westminster, possibly as a response to moves by other members trying to get enough support to change the law and make it legal to have sex with children.
The documents contained, amongst other information, the names of MP's who were friendly to the PIE cause, and there was so much damning information, it would have needed a whole series of articles to disseminate it all.
However, in spite of these explosive claims about establishment figures, the national newspapers weren't interested in taking the story on.
"Barbara said to me she had been to national newspapers, but they weren't interested. They wouldn't touch it with a barge pole."
When Mr Hale started making inquiries in political circles, asking for comment and response, he received similar short shrift. Departments and establishment figures refused to comment, and the most common response he met with was questions about where he had got the information from.
Finally, someone agreed to speak with Mr Hale, but they were far from helpful.
"Eventually I was told by the Liberal organisation that somebody would basically put me right, they would come and talk to me about it. And Cyril Smith turned up the very next day."
James O'Brien: "So, Cyril Smith, MP for Rochdale at the time, turns up, personally, on your doorstep, as a direct result of questions you'd been asking about the contents of these dossiers?"
Don Hale: That's right. And he was very, very aggressive... He was really pointing fingers, banging on the desk and demanding I hand over all these papers to him. There was no way I was going to do that.
"The following day Special Branch arrived with a gang of policeman, and they again were demanding access to the files, they wanted to take everything away, they were making all sorts of threats.
"They got a search warrant anyway, their officers got all the files. I was asked, was this everything that's come forward?'And I had to say yes, and they took them all away and disappeared."
This all amounts to damning evidence, albeit some of it circumstantial, but a report released today, produced by the Chief Executive of the NSPCC, Peter Wanless, said that there was no evidence of records being deliberately being removed or destroyed relating to child abuse between 1979 and 1999.
This did not surprise Mr Hale, who saw Wanless as being set up to fail with the directive he was given by the Home Office for investigating the case, and that members of the establishment have contacted him in recent months suggesting where evidence could be found.
Mr Hale also believes that in spite of Theresa May's comments about plans to investigate allegations of child abuse, there was no real appetite to look deeply into the accusations, especially 6 months before a general election.
Later on James O'Brien's show, John O'Connor, former head of the flying squad, who Don Hales praised as being highly respected, agreed with Mr Hales' view that there would not be a real investigation of the depth and breadth needed to uncover whether there was wrong doing and to what levels it went.
"When you get enquiries like this, if it isn't focused and specific on certain incidents and it starts spreading everywhere, that tends to dilute the impact of it. And that seems to me to be tactic that's being used here.
"You spread it everywhere, and you make it so difficult to get something that you can actually lock on to, to obtain evidence, which may result in a prosecution.
"I personally don't think that there is a real interest at the top to get to the bottom of all of this."

Now we're getting somewhere. According to a Home Office consultant who worked there during the 1980's, PIE, the Paedophile Information Exchange, was funded by the Home Office at the request of Special Branch.

The doors this revelations opens are quite significant. Blackmail, I suggest, being one of them.

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Tim Hulbert Alleges That Home Office Funding For PIE Was Requested By Special Branch

Tim Hulbert, a consultant who worked for the Home Office in the 1980's, on BBC Radio 4 12th Nov. He claimed that the Paedophile Information Exchange received HO funding.
Very worthwhile listening to not least because James Naughtie sounds as though he chokes when Tim Hulbert tells him that the Home Office funding for PIE was at the request of Special Branch.

From The Needle.

That's the death knell sounding for Castle's copy then.

Unstated is what unit or department of "Scotland Yard" is doing the searching. Since some of these files are "closed" the assumption must be that they are classified and if that is the case, then one conclusion is that it is Special Branch - the security branch - that is doing the searching. Time will tell.

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Vital information may be in the Barbara Castle archive

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Wednesday 12 November 2014

Scotland Yard is carrying out a search of the Barbara Castle archives at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library to try and locate a copy of the Dickens Dossier', the missing file containing allegations of organised child abuse by politicians and other prominent figures.

The Met is working in conjunction with archivists at the library to sift through more than 850 boxes of documents relating to the life and career of the former Labour cabinet minister and MP for Blackburn, ranging from the 1930s, when she was first elected as a London councillor, until her death in 2002.
A source close to the investigation told the Independent that "preliminary searches" had already been carried out but that it would take several weeks to complete the search of the archives. Among the material are the former Employment Secretary's dairies, political correspondence and ministerial papers from her time both in Westminster and Brussels, where she represented Greater Manchester as MEP from 1979 until 1989.
The source said: "The archivists have been working in conjunction with Scotland Yard concerning the preliminary searches. The dossier is not in the obvious locations where one might expect to find it and there's a doubt as to whether it is in there but the search continues. It should take quite a few weeks."
Barbara Castle, pictured in 1974 (Getty)
At least three people have tried unsuccessfully to access the Castle files to see if they contain the dossier, having found a lot of the material closed. Papers with restricted access include diary entries and correspondence with family members. All of her correspondence with the former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw between October 1981 and February 1999, as well as all correspondence between her and Neil and Glenys Kinnock between November 1981 and August 1996, is also marked "closed" on the library's database, along with a letter she wrote to Neil Kinnock in December 1999.
Suzanne de la Rosa, head of communications at the Bodleian said: "The archives are very large in size, with around 860 boxes so the investigation may take many weeks."
The whereabouts of the Dickens Dossier, named after the former Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens who compiled the information, is unknown. It went missing at some point after the politician handed it to the then Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, in 1983.
Former Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens (Getty)
Investigative journalist Don Hale claimed this week that the late Baroness Castle of Blackburn personally handed him a copy of the dossier in the 1980s when he was editor of her local paper, the Bury Messenger. It allegedly contained the names of 16 MPs, senior policemen, head teachers and clergy.
Mr Hale said a group of Special Branch officers raided his office in 1984 and snatched the file away, threatening him with prison. He also said the day before the raid the then-Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith, since exposed as a paedophile, visited his office to demand he kill the story.
An inquiry published on Tuesday by NSPCC Chief Executive Peter Wanless found that allegations of a cover-up at the Home Office into the child abuse allegations were "not proven".
Home Secretary Theresa May told MPs: "[The Wanless] verdict is case not proved', rather than not guilty. I cannot stand here and say that the Home Office was not involved in a cover-up during the 1980s. There might have been a cover-up, and that is why we have set up the inquiry into child abuse. We are determined to get to the truth."
A Met spokesman said: "We will continue to work with, and support the review."

Special Branch who likely set up PIE and blackmailed its members. Like Dracula in charge of the blood bank. I don't know but I would have thought that a librarian who works at the Bodleian library would have been the obvious choice to do the searching.....they seem to find all the other books just fine....but this is the looking glass we are looking through.

Let's hope that the IPCC change its spots and do a thorough job and report its finding honestly.

Quote:IPCC to investigate three police forces over failure to act on child abuse

Essex, North Yorkshire and North Wales forces face inquiry in wake of Project Spade sting against buyers of abuse images

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Essex police is one of three forces facing investigation over data it received from an international sting operation against paedophiles. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA

Three police forces are to be investigated by the police watchdog over concerns they failed to act on intelligence about suspected sex offenders living in their area.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched investigations into Essex, North Yorkshire and North Wales police forces over fears they failed for months to act on information about people who had purchased child abuse images over the internet.
Essex police is being scrutinised over why it failed to investigate teacher Martin Goldberg, 46, for 10 months after receiving allegations about him from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre. Goldberg secretly recorded thousands of images of naked boys at Thorpe Hall school in Southend before killing himself a day after police visited him on 9 September.
"There is rightly considerable public concern about how police forces deal with sexual offences involving children," said the IPCC's deputy chair, Sarah Green. "The IPCC takes this issue seriously and proactively contacted all forces and asked them to review their handling of intelligence to determine the scale of any issues. Our investigations will examine carefully how intelligence from Ceop was dealt with by these three forces."
The investigations stem from intelligence handed to Ceop, now part of the National Crime Agency, by Toronto police in July 2012. The intelligence, dubbed Project Spade, was an international sting that caught people attempting to purchase child abuse images over the internet.
Information about 2,300 suspected paedophiles in the UK, including Goldberg, was not disseminated to forces around the UK until November 2013 after it became part of the National Crime Agency.
The IPCC said it was still considering whether to investigate the National Crime Agency over Ceop's failure to act on the information for 16 months. "The IPCC has still not received all the information it requires from the NCA. Once this happens the assessment will be completed," an IPCC spokesman said.
North Yorkshire and North Wales police forces referred themselves to the watchdog last month after the IPCC requested all forces in England and Wales to review how they handled the Project Spade material.

HASC: CSA Inquiry: Millar, Saunders, & Willmer 11th Nov14

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Just breaking on the BBC this afternoon. I strongly recommend visiting the BBC website HERE, and listening to the video embedded there (I have no idea if it can be embedded here?).

The survivor "Nick" says he was abused and tortured for 9 years by leading figures from the military, law enforcement and politicians who were "very powerful" and were very well organised and had not the slightest concern about being caught.

Read and weep:

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Police are investigating "possible homicide" linked to what has been described as a paedophile ring involving powerful people in the 1970s and 1980s.
The group is alleged to have included senior figures in public life, the military, politics and law enforcement.
In a statement Scotland Yard said inquiries were at an early stage.
A key witness who has spoken to police has told the BBC that he was abused for nine years as a boy.
He has appealed for others who may have evidence to come forward.
The Metropolitan Police said detectives were made aware of allegations regarding possible homicide during the last month.
The Met's statement said officers from its child abuse investigation command were working closely with colleagues from the homicide and major crime command.
"At this early stage in this inquiry, with much work still to do, it is not appropriate to issue appeals or reveal more information," the force said.
"We will not be giving a commentary as this inquiry develops, and it is important that officers are allowed to pursue their work without interference.
"We will not comment upon speculation as to the identity of any person or locations that may or may not feature in this inquiry."
'Very powerful people'Speaking anonymously to the BBC but using the name "Nick", the alleged victim said he had given three days of video-taped evidence to detectives.
His accounts are being assessed as part of Operation Midland, a new Scotland Yard investigation which is under the umbrella of its inquiry into historical abuse, Operation Fairbank.
Nick, now in his 40s, says that he was first abused by his own father before being "handed over" as a young boy to the group.
"They were very powerful people and they controlled my life for the next nine years," Nick added.
"They created fear that penetrated every part of me, day in day out. You didn't question what they wanted, you did as they asked without question and the punishments were very severe."
Nick said the group was "very organised" and would arrange for chauffeur-driven cars to pick up boys, sometimes from school, and drive them to "parties" or "sessions" at locations including hotels and private apartments in London and other cities.
The children were not usually allowed to speak with each other and Nick says he struggled to work out the identities of the abusers. He has given the names of some of those he believes were involved to the police and the BBC.
'No fear'The BBC has agreed not to reveal any of these names because of the ongoing police investigation and because of the need for further evidence to corroborate his account.
"They had no hesitation in doing what they wanted to do," Nick said. "Some of them were quite open about who they were. They had no fear at all of being caught, it didn't cross their mind."
When a child "stepped out of line", he said that abusers would inflict brutal and painful punishments.
He said: "[The abuse] destroyed my ability to trust. It's pretty much wrecked any relationships I have had. Intimacy for me is a pretty much a no-go area."
Nick said he had one motivation for speaking to the BBC - to encourage other alleged victims or those who unwittingly assisted the abusers to come forward.
"They need to find the strength that we as survivors have done," he said. "People who drove us around could come forward. Staff in some of the locations could come forward. There are so many people who must have had suspicions.
"We weren't smuggled in under a blanket through the back door. It was done openly and people must have questioned that and they need to come forward."
Nick says his torment suddenly came to an end when he went to a pre-arranged place to be picked up by a driver and no-one arrived.
He went the next day, worried that he would be punished for a diary mistake. Again there was no car waiting. He never saw his abusers again and says he still has no idea why.

The murder story is starting to dribble out.

I just can't see how Theresa May can now permit a cover up inquiry to continue. She has to surely pull out all the stops and get to the bottom of this?

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Scotland Yard is investigating three 'possible murders' linked to a Westminster paedophile ring that was allegedly operating in the 1970s and 1980s

Operation Fairbank was set two years ago by Scotland Yard to look into the claims of abuse Photo: AP








By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent

11:18AM GMT 16 Nov 2014



A Conservative MP murdered a young boy during a depraved sex party in the 1980s, an alleged victim of the Westminster paedophile scandal has claimed.

The 12-year-old boy, who was being abused by a group of men, was strangled by the politician at a luxury townhouse in front of other victims, it has been alleged.

On another occasion, the victim claims a young boy, who was around ten-years-old, was deliberately run down and killed by a car being driven by one of his abusers.

The alleged murders are among three that are now being investigated by the Metropolitan Police as part of a major probe into claims that a powerful paedophile ring with links to Westminster was operating in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.

Scotland Yard, which set up Operation Fairbank two years ago to look at the abuse claims, announced on Friday it had launched a fresh strand of the inquiry, entitled Operation Midland, to probe the alleged murders.

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The allegations emerged after a man, who is now in his 40s, came forward claiming to have been one of around 15 boys, who were abused at the hands of a powerful paedophile network operating some 30-years ago.
He claims after being handed to the group by his father, he was regularly picked up in cars and taken to hotels and apartments, where he was physically and sexually abused by "senior military and political" figures.
Some of the abuse allegedly took place at flats in the Dolphin Square development in Pimlico, where a number of politicians have London homes.
The man, who has spoken at length to Scotland Yard detectives, said he had witnessed two murders of abuse victims by members of the group.
He told the Sunday People that he had been in the same room as a 12-year-old boy, when a Tory MP throttled him to death.
He described the boy as being around 12-years-old and having brown hair, but said he did not know his name.
The murder was allegedly witnessed by another abuse victim who was in the room at the same time.
He said: "I watched while that happened. I am not sure how I got out of that. Whether I will ever know why I survived, I am not sure."
On another occasion he claims a member of the gang deliberately ran over one of the victims, in what he described as an effort to demonstrate their power.
A third boy was murdered during a depraved orgy at which another Tory MP was present, the man has told detectives.
On Friday, Scotland Yard announced that it was now investigating a "possible homicide" as part of its ongoing probe into historic child sex abuse.
A spokesman said: "Over the past month, detectives working on Operation Fairbank within the Met's Specialist Crime and Operations have been made aware of allegations concerning serious non-recent sexual abuse, said to have occurred over 30 years ago.
"Our inquiries into this, over subsequent weeks, have revealed further information regarding possible homicide. Based on our current knowledge, this is the first time that this specific information has been passed to the Met."
The spokesman went on: "Detectives from the Child Abuse Investigation Command are working closely with colleagues from the Homicide and Major Crime Command concerning this information, which is being looked at under the name of Operation Midland."

More on this at Exaro HERE.

David Guyatt Wrote:The murder story is starting to dribble out.

I just can't see how Theresa May can now permit a cover up inquiry to continue. She has to surely pull out all the stops and get to the bottom of this?

I wish I could share your optimism David. I don't trust them. I'm sure they will try discrediting the victims or they will pressured to drop it or disappear. On the other hand it is or should be easy to narrow down how many children were hit and run downed in south west London in summer 1979. That would identify one of the victims and hopefully lead to connections. God I hate t think of the flash backs and trauma that 'Nick' is going through right now.