William McGrath

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William McGrath was a loyalist who founded TARA in 1966.[1]

Liam Clarke attributes the following claim to an Army Field Intelligence NCO (FINCO) collating information on East Belfast in 1976:

McGrath was an agent whose first experience of spying had come in the 1950s when he smuggled bibles into Russia as a front intelligence gathering by MI6.
His handler was an MI5 officer based in the Old Holywood Road who was later charged with an offence against a young boy.[2]

In December 1981, he was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for sex offences carried out over a 20-year period at the Kincora Boys Home.[3]

Notes

  1. Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace?, Pan, 1990, p.117.
  2. Cited in Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace?, Pan, 1990, p.355.
  3. Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace?, Pan, 1990, p.300.