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]
