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The Willie Whitelaw Whitewash

Willie Whitelaw on the right.

Cover-up ? What cover-up?

Detectives are investigating claims that former Conservative Home Secretary William Whitelaw ordered police to drop an investigation into a VIP paedophile ring.
Whitelaw allegedly told a senior Metropolitan Police boss to quash a year-long investigation into a gang accused of abusing 40 children, the youngest of whom was six.
The alleged intervention came in 1980 after a newspaper revealed the country's chief prosecutor was considering 350 offences against the gang, including allegations it obtained young boys for politicians, prominent lawyers and film stars'.
The report, published on July 7 that year in the Evening News a daily London newspaper revealed police had passed evidence to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and that up to 12 men could face trial for procuring boys and sexual assault.
Jeff Edwards, the journalist who wrote the story, claims that just days after it was published he was summoned by police to an interview and threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act.
Mr Edwards also claims his source, a serving police officer, was disciplined and fined six months' wages for leaking the story.

The Daily Mail

Quote:'Willie Whitelaw ordered police to scrap inquiry into VIP child sex abuse ring': Police launch probe into sensational new cover-up claims

• Detectives investigating claim that Whitelaw ordered police to drop inquiry
  
• He allegedly told a senior Met Police boss to quash year-long investigation
  
• It came following revelation CPS prosecutor was considering 350 offences
  
• The revelation provides new line of inquiry for investigation into VIP gang
  

By PAUL CAHALAN and PETER HENN FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 22:15, 6 December 2014 | UPDATED: 09:17, 7 December 2014

Detectives are investigating claims that former Conservative Home Secretary William Whitelaw ordered police to drop an investigation into a VIP paedophile ring.
Whitelaw allegedly told a senior Metropolitan Police boss to quash a year-long investigation into a gang accused of abusing 40 children, the youngest of whom was six.
The alleged intervention came in 1980 after a newspaper revealed the country's chief prosecutor was considering 350 offences against the gang, including allegations it obtained young boys for politicians, prominent lawyers and film stars'.
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Whitelaw pictured with Margaret Thatcher in 1964. A journalist has now claimed Whitelaw told a Metropolitan Police boss in 1980 to quash a year-long investigation into a gang accused of abusing 40 children
Thatcher and right-hand man Willie Whitelaw chat in 1984



The report, published on July 7 that year in the Evening News a daily London newspaper revealed police had passed evidence to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and that up to 12 men could face trial for procuring boys and sexual assault.
Jeff Edwards, the journalist who wrote the story, claims that just days after it was published he was summoned by police to an interview and threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act.
Mr Edwards also claims his source, a serving police officer, was disciplined and fined six months' wages for leaking the story.

He also says he was told by his police source that Whitelaw called a senior police boss and told him to halt the inquiry.
Mr Edwards said: My source told me the Home Secretary had spoken to a senior Met Police boss and demanded action was taken to make sure nothing more was printed about the affair and that the investigation be dropped.'
The Mail on Sunday can reveal Mr Edwards has spoken to senior detectives working on the Met's Operation Midland about the incident, but the Met would not confirm this. Midland was set up last month to investigate sensational claims that boys were murdered and abused by Conservative politicians at parties held in Dolphin Square, an upmarket block of flats close to Westminster popular with MPs, in the 1980s.
Mr Edwards said he had been invited to give a statement to detectives in the next few weeks and hopes to give evidence to the upcoming Home Office inquiry into historic sexual abuse.
Last night, campaigning MP Simon Danczuk described the allegations as a breakthrough' in the Westminster child abuse scandal and suggested it was strong evidence there was a paedophile network operating at the heart of the Establishment.
The article, unearthed by The Mail on Sunday from newspaper archives, provides a fresh line of inquiry for police probing claims a paedophile network with links to Westminster.


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Reporter Jeff Edwards (pictured) was threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act after he wrote a story about the 1980 investigation

It revealed six officers in a special unit were conducting the operation from Arbour Square police station in East London. Police had taken statements from 40 youngsters, it said, and established the gang had links between London and Liverpool.
It said 12 children in Liverpool from schools for the educationally subnormal' had given police information. Mr Edwards told The Mail on Sunday his police contact, an experienced detective sergeant who was part of the Arbour Square team, told him when the story broke it caused an eruption at the top in Scotland Yard'.
My friend told me the anti-corruption squad, then known as A10, had been told to carry out an urgent investigation about how this matter had got in the press,' he said.
He told me he had been threatened with demotion. Within a day or two I was summoned to the anti-corruption branch HQ at Tintagel House in Vauxhall [South London]. At the end of the interview, which went on for two hours, I was told I could be in breach of the Official Secrets Act and the matter would be formally reported to the DPP to consider whether I should be prosecuted.'
Mr Edwards, who is president of the Crime Reporters Association and was chief crime correspondent on The Mirror, said he heard nothing more from police or the DPP. The Mail on Sunday asked Scotland Yard whether Mr Edwards's police source, who is now in his 80s and in a care home, was disciplined. It refused to answer questions and claimed it was unable to pursue such historical inquiries'. The Crown Prosecution Service said there was not enough information in Mr Edwards's article to search DPP records.
Viscount Whitelaw, who was Deputy Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher's government from 1979 to 1988, died in 1999. Mr Edwards's claims come amid a flurry of allegations politicians were involved in a VIP paedophile ring.
Operation Midland was started after a man came forward to say he witnessed a Tory MP murder a boy at a party. The man also claimed that a different Tory MP watched as a boy was sexually abused.
The Met's Operation Fernbridge is looking into claims that politicians, lawyers and pop stars abused children at the Elm Guest House in Barnes, South-West London, in the 1980s. Police have confirmed disgraced former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith was a visitor and this year The Mail on Sunday interviewed a boy he abused.
Last night, Mr Danczuk said: This is the strongest evidence yet that there was a paedophile network operating at the heart of the Establishment. The fact we now know hundreds of child abuse offences linked to politicians and other prominent people were being examined by the DPP is a breakthrough.
That Cabinet Ministers and police helped shut this investigation down through collusion and cover-up is something the Government's child sex abuse inquiry must look at.'

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DA / D Notices Secretary says no paedophiles in secret services

Posted on December 7, 2014by cathyfox
I had wrongly assumed that Andrew Vallance would not reply to my last email. However to his credit he has. First I include part of my last email to him which is relevant to his reply. If you want to check out the whole correspondence the links are [15] [1] and the full FOI Request [2]

Andrew Vallance

Cathy Fox to Andrew Vallance, (Secretary D Notice Committee)
"I shall acquiesce to your request to desist from further
correspondence, after this email. However I refute that 3 emails on
pertinent and legitimate points could be taken by any
reasonable person to be "repeated questioning that has become
burdensome and vexatious".
My last question,
Reading the DA notice below, if an agent or officer of a secret
service mentioned in a) was a paedophile and abused children, is it
not entirely possible that there arises a conflict of interest in
that if the paedophilia was exposed, national security could be
said to be at risk and newspapers asked not to publish?
Indeed bearing in mind that paedophiles are open to blackmail, is
it not likely that agents or officers are chosen because they are
paedophiles, and are able to be "turned" to do what their bosses
and people who wield real power wish them to do?
If their bosses are in fact paedophiles, as is alleged with
Oldfield and Hayman, then the situation gets more complicated,
especially when a different secret service realises this.
This is one reason why people believe D / DA notices have been
used/misused to cover up paedophilia.
Can you state categorically that no D/DA Notice 05 has been used,
and that use has not inadvertently or deliberately covered up abuse of
children?
DA Notice 05: United Kingdom Security & Intelligence Services &
Special Services
Information falling within the following categories is normally
regarded as being highly classified. It is requested that such
information, unless it has been the subject of an official
announcement or has been widely disclosed or discussed, should not
be published without first seeking advice:
(a) specific covert operations, sources and methods of the Security
Service, SIS and GCHQ, Defence Intelligence Units, Special Forces
and those involved with them, the application of those methods*,
including the interception of communications, and their targets;
the same applies to those engaged on counter-terrorist operations; "

Dear Cathy Fox,
Your hypothesis below is not only completely speculative and unfounded, but also ignores the internal checks and balances within the intelligence agencies (not the least of which is the direct vetting system). These impose a constant watch for any potential security risks; they would certainly involve anyone (however exalted) involved in paedophilia.
However, the subject of this correspondence has not been the possibility of paedophiles within the intelligence agencies, but whether the D/DA Notice System has sought to suppress media reports about them. As I have repeatedly said to you, but which you seem unable to grasp, I know that in the 10 years since I have been DPBAC Secretary that that has never and could never have happened, but also for all the reasons set out to you in my previous emails, which you seem determined to ignore I believe it is inconceivable that any of my predecessors would have done so. Certainly, and having yet again gone through the archived files, there is not the least shred of hard evidence to support this empty conspiracy theory. I say again to you, if you or those who are making these allegations have hard evidence (not hearsay) about this issue, would they please give us copies of it, rather than making unsupported allegations or indulging in open-ended enquiries which lead nowhere? Finally, the only people who believe D / DA notices have been used/misused to cover up paedophilia' are those who are either ignorant of the facts or cannot view them objectively.
As I said in my last email, I have replied to your enquiries with full openness and transparency, save those that would breach the DPBAC code of confidentiality and thus put at risk the whole DA Notice System. The contents of your last email has only confirmed my view that your repeated questioning has indeed become vexatious, and hence this will be my last communication to you.
Sincerely,
Andrew Vallance
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Andrew first dealt with my hypothesis that "if an agent or officer of a secret
service mentioned in a) was a paedophile and abused children, is it not entirely possible that there arises a conflict of interest in that if the paedophilia was exposed, national security could be said to be at risk and newspapers asked not to publish?"
I consider this to be one reasonable explanation of how part of the paedophile cover up has happened.
However Andrew not will not even contemplate that a member of the intelligence agencies can be a paedophile…."Your hypothesis is completely speculative and unfounded, but also ignores the internal checks and balances within the intelligence agencies (not the least of which is the direct vetting system). These impose a constant watch for any potential security risks; they would certainly involve anyone (however exalted) involved in paedophilia."
Firstly I would not say that my hypothesis is completely speculative or unfounded. Peter Hayman [14] Maurice Oldfield [12] and Anthony Blunt [13] were paedophiles I believe. Cyril Smiths widespread paedophilia was covered up by politicians, police, special branch and MI5 [11]. Jimmy Savile of course would have been vetted at BBC [10] and should have been on other occasions yet that apparently did not pick up his paedophilia. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Secretary of the D Notice committee will not even accept the premise of my hypothesis, and he relies on "direct vetting" and unspecified checks and balances to assume that no one in the intelligence services is a paedophile.
From this flows his conclusion regarding that a D notice could not be used to cover up an operation in which there was a paedophile agent or officer. "I know that in the 10 years since I have been DPBAC Secretary that that has never and could never have happened, but also for all the reasons set out to you in my previous emails, which you seem determined to ignore I believe it is inconceivable that any of my predecessors would have done so."
There are no paedophiles in the secret services so that it could not be covered up by a D notice, it seems is the thrust of his argument. So move along, nothing to see here!
I disagree and think it is very dangerous that the Secretary for 10 years of this committee thinks so. In fact this opinion itself puts national security at risk, and explains partly why we are in the postion we are today with a paedophile network across people in power.
Links
[1] 2014 Dec 3 Cathy Fox https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/a-little-more-on-d-notices/
[2] Cathy Fox FOI Request https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/da_notices_index_and_other_infor#incoming-592453
[3] 2014 Nov 4 NY Enquirer http://nyenquirer.uk/mi5-special-branch-prominent-paedophiles-cover-peter-jaconelli/
[4] 2014 Nov 22 Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/22/media-gagged-westminster-child-abuse-ring
[5] 2014 Oct 21 Central Lobby http://centrallobby.politicshome.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/naomi-long-mp-intelligence-services-hide-child-sexual-abuse/#.VEf-4TaLkQU.twitter
[6] 1989 May 13 After Dark Out of Bounds', Channel Four http://youtu.be/BvAAY7UiMH8
[7] 2014 Jun 14 Express http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/485529/Special-Branch-funded-Paedophile-Information-Exchange-says-Home-Office-whistleblower
[8] 2014 RTE http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0801/634558-kincora-abuse-investigation/
[9]
[10] 2014 Jun 26 http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/how-mi5-vetted-savile-and-decided-paedophilia-was-nothing-to-worry-about/
[11] 2012 Nov 19 rochdale Online http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/75362/cyril-smith-allegations-mp-danczuk-wants-mi5-coverup-inquiry
[12] Paul Foot Who Framed Colin Wallace ISBN-13: 978-0330314466
[13] Peter Wright Spycatcher ISBN-13: 978-0670820559
[14] 2014 Nov 8 Daily Mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mi6-chief-shamed-diplomat-raped-4596308
[15] 2o14 Dec 1 Cathy Fox D Notices 1 https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/d-notices-da-notices-don-hale-and-d-notice-committee/

Barbara Kahan, Peter Righton, Louis Minster and Malta

David Guyatt Wrote:Good news. It shouldn't be swept under the carpet again, though Cameron and May are, for me, still hell bent on doing just that to protect their rotten political careers.

As I suggested earlier in this thread, I believe there is a group in Parliament and others outside too, who are intent on getting justice done, and I believe they are news smart.

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• An Open Secret, by Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg, debuted at the DOC NYC festival Friday
  
• Film claims X-Men star Brian Peck abused a well known child star and got away with it
  
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