What are we to make of the expert opinion that British intelligence reports of the past are being withheld for reasons that are ” increasingly random?”
The Guardian’s expert on the history of intelligence Richard Norton Taylor writes the following in an article on intelligence withheld or released. Documents held back this year include files relating to the Scott inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair, a file on allegations of sexual abuse at the Kincora boys’ home in Belfast which the former army information officer Colin Wallace said were covered up by MI5, and a file on the late Brian Nelson, a British army informer in Northern Ireland eventually jailed for …