How Thatcher’s MI5 Spy Chief Protected a Pedophile Member of Parliament

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Nico Hines

As the Tory government scrambled to avoid scandal, it appears little or no consideration was given to the children who were raped.

LONDON—The head of Britain’s MI5 domestic intelligence service told the Thatcher government that a pedophile MP was operating in the House of Commons but suggested a plot to cover up his “penchant for small boys” in order to avoid political embarrassment.

It was a plan the government was only too happy to accept.

Proof of the extraordinary cover-up in the 1980s was kept hidden in the Cabinet Office vaults for more than a quarter of a century despite an official inquiry last year that was supposed to uncover government documents that included any evidence of pedophiles in Westminster.

Details of a written warning from Sir Antony Duff, the director general of MI5, to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet Secretary emerged on Wednesday night after the government slipped it online as parliament closed for the summer. (PDF)

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