Media ‘gagged over bid to report MP child sex cases’

[muriel_volestrangler]

The security services are facing questions over the cover-up of a Westminster paedophile ring as it emerged that files relating to official requests for media blackouts in the early 1980s were destroyed.

Two newspaper executives have told the Observer that their publications were issued with D-notices – warnings not to publish intelligence that might damage national security – when they sought to report on allegations of a powerful group of men engaging in child sex abuse in 1984. One executive said he had been accosted in his office by 15 uniformed and two non-uniformed police over a dossier on Westminster paedophiles passed to him by the former Labour cabinet minister Barbara Castle.

The other said that his newspaper had received a D-notice when a reporter sought to write about a police investigation into Elm Guest House, in southwest London, where a group of high-profile paedophiles was said to have operated and may have killed a child. Now it has emerged that these claims are impossible to verify or discount because the D-notice archives for that period “are not complete”.

Officials running the D-notice system, which works closely with MI5 and MI6 and the Ministry of Defence, said that files “going back beyond 20 years are not complete because files are reviewed and correspondence of a routine nature with no historical significance destroyed”.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/22/media-gagged-westminster-child-abuse-ring

This is starting to stink.

[fedsron2us]

1. Colin Wallace exposed the lid on this can of worms years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace

This scandal has been bubbling under the surface for decades and is still being suppressed

Private Eye and others have alluded to it over the years.

The people being protected here are not just the MPs but the intelligence agencies who may well have dirt all over their hands

The suspicion is that the abuse of children in care homes was known about but allowed to go unpunished as it was being used as means of entrapment of those who were deemed a risk to national security. It is also possible this practise was not confined to Northern Ireland.

As you so rightly say it stinks