The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall?

[Jan Klimkowski]

The reality of Power.

Geoffrey Dickens MP was the scourge of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE).

This is from Hansard, the official transcript of Britain's Parliament

HC Deb 15 November 1982 vol 32 cc18-9W19W

§Mr. Dickens
asked the Prime Minister whether Geoffrey Arthur Prime's membership of the Paedophile Information Exchange organisation was brought to the attention of the police or security agencies.


§The Prime Minister
I understand that stories that the police found documents in Prime's house or garage indicating that he was a member of the paedophile information exchange are without foundation, and that nothing has been discovered to suggest that he was.

So, official denial from Thatcher.

Oops, here's the Daily Telegraph....

Traitor Prime free after 19 years' jail

By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
12:00AM GMT 14 Mar 2001

THE traitor and paedophile Geoffrey Prime was released from prison on parole yesterday after serving half his 38-year sentence for betraying secrets to the KGB.

Prime, 62, who worked for the GCHQ intelligence-gathering centre in Cheltenham, was jailed in 1982. He would have been freed automatically two thirds of the way through his sentence in 2007, but prisoners are entitled to parole after serving half of their sentence if they show remorse.

Prime's freedom was agreed by the Parole Board after consultations between GCHQ and the Home Office. Officials judged that he was no longer a risk to national security. Prime was released from Rochester jail at 7am.

He started working for the KGB in 1968 while on RAF intelligence duties in West Berlin. It is thought that the Soviets learned of his paedophile activities and blackmailed him. He was persuaded to take a posting as a translator at GCHQ, where he had access to top secret codes and military frequencies.

He passed information to the KGB during regular visits to Vienna. The Soviet Union used his material to transmit dummy messages while real secrets were broadcast under different codes or sent by diplomatic bag.

His treachery is believed to have compromised Nato's contingency plans for defending Western Europe in the event of war. Moscow paid him a total of £8,000 before he was unmasked.

Prime was also a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange and had a card index of 2,287 young girls whom he targeted by phone. He will be placed on the sex offenders' register and is expected to live in a Probation Service hostel.