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Dear Friends & Followers,

Ed’s family will be holding a memorial to celebrate Ed’s life and work; the event will be the afternoon of Sunday, November 16th in NYC. All friends and colleagues of Ed’s are welcome to attend and to say a few words – or just enjoy a drink in his memory. Please go to http://www.eventcreate.com/e/ed-moloney, if you would like to join us. RSVP prior to November 7th.

Warmest,

Joan & Ciarán

I am not going to delve into the massive detail of Chris Moore’ supremely important book KINCORA – BRITAIN’S SHAME, except to say that it is not possible to read the book’s many revelations without concluding, as I have, that it is one of the most significant, if not the most significant pieces of journalistic research produced by the Troubles. Thanks to Chris we now know that the Kincora Boys Home was an MI5 operation almost from the get go, that the boys were raped with MI5’s approval, that the staff were de facto MI5 employees and the boys were used and discarded like human trash. We also know that MI5 facilitated a well known member of the British Royal Family, allowing him access to Kincora to indulge his sexual perversions in the knowledge that he would never face a judge or jury. The fact that the late Chief Superintendent George Caskey co-operated with Chris Moore, giving him access to the results of his own PSNI investigation before his death, adds enormously to the credibility of this book. This matter cannot be allowed to rest. MI5 is in the dock, as are the many British and Irish politicians and officials who facilitated their crimes.

Nothing of a political nature, especially involving Sinn Fein or the IRA, happens in West Belfast without Gerry Adams knowing, usually but not always beforehand;

Nothiing of a violent nature, especially involving the IRA or related/rival groups, happens in West Belfast without Gerry Adams knowing, especially but not always afterwards;

it is why he has stayed at the top of the pile….

A couple more

Some fairly obvious points need to be made about the killing of Denis Donaldson.

The first is that nothing happens in West Belfast without the knowledge and often the approval of the Provos. The idea that a senior and well known figure like Denis Donaldson could be killed by a small dissident republican group without the foreknowledge of the Provisional IRA is just plainly ludicrous.

In fact it is not stretching reality to suspect that this was an arrangement that suited both the killers and the Provos, the former because in their world they looked smart while the latter got rid of an embarrassing and possibly damaging leak. The real losers were Donaldson’s handlers, either the PSNI Special Branch or the British Army.

And make no mistake about this. Whoever pulled the trigger on Donaldson the real killers, the people who gave the go-ahead were the Provos

One of the late Ted Howell’s many contributions to the maturing of Sinn Fein’s politics was that he introduced the Republican leadership to the delights of French wine, a product he had discovered when he was the IRA’s European representative in the 70’s.

His collection of wines was extensive; Ted himself was known to be partial and he was good company to boot.

His record as a gunrunner was, however, less than stellar and one source went as far as calling his contribution to the IRA’s arsenal ‘pathetic’. Clearly, Howell’s talents lay elsewhere, primarily, as it turns out, as Adams ‘Thank Tank’ supremo, in which capacity he transformed SF’s US arm from an IRA support group to a sophisticated political machine, and helped steer SF to electoral politics.

A lawyer’s view:

“On a side note, Radden-Keefe is going to feel the firm side of the law when served with discovery notices and court orders to produce discovery concerning the Marian Price litigation. Given the seriousness of all that, he will either have to make a very robust apology and damages or face a written judgement which will destroy his credibility and sink anything flowing from that book and Disney series. That’s my reading of it but I could be wrong. The cross examination will prove enlightening!”

Not content with stealing my work you now indulge in felon setting; you really are a despicable low life…..

i have been quite unwell recently (a stubborn case of pneumonia) but for those interested i would be happy, when I am physically and mentally able, to answer any questions you may wish to ask about the Keefe diatribe (assuming you know what I am talking about!). i do not rule anything out except that which culminates in felon setting. (Message to my American friends: the only thing I can say right now that you should to try to avoid catching pneumonia?) So, send me your questions and as soon as I can, health permitting, I will endeavor to answer.