NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Liam Clarke
PUBLISHED
24/07/2015
Kincora whistleblower Richard Kerr has claimed that he met one of Britain’s most senior spymasters in the notorious home where children were abused.
Sir Maurice Oldfield, the former Director and Controller of Intelligence in Northern Ireland, had been at the home in 1978, Mr Kerr claims.
He left Northern Ireland under a cloud of sexual innuendo two years later.
A closet homosexual, he was accused of making a pass at a man in the bar of the Old Crow Inn in Comber, but no charges were ever brought and his friends said it was black propaganda by intelligence rivals while the police denied dealing with any complaint.
Mr Kerr says he was never abused by Sir Maurice, but linking him to Kincora will add fuel to the rumours that intelligence knew of the scandal and hushed it up because the abusers were giving information to the intelligence services.
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