William McGrath

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

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

[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.

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