Notes – B

JOHN BUTCHER MP & HOME OFFICE

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PRESENTATION B1-B8

B1 – Letter dated 01.07.83 from me to John Butcher M.P. (two pages). A typed copy of a hand written original.

B2 – Letter dated 12 September 1983 from John Butcher M.P.

B3 – Letter dated 8 September 1983 from Douglas Hurd M.P., Minister of State, Home Office.

B4 – Envelope (enclosure for B2 and B3) date stamped 8.15pm (Friday) 16 September 1983.

B5 – Undated with compliments slip from John Butcher M.P., with an acknowledgement card from the Home Office to Mr. Butcher. Items received by post Wednesday 07.12.83, following telephone contact with Mr. Butcher’s House of Commons office the day before.

B6 – Letter dated 6 December 1984 from Giles Shaw M.P., Minister of State, Home Office.

B7 – Undated copy letter but supposedly extant from 23.11.83, from Douglas Hurd M.P., Minister of State, Home Office. This letter was first received in January 1985.

B8 – Letter dated 9 April 1985 from John Butcher M.P.

(Copy of Handwritten Letter)

 

Seán Kelly.
(Deleted)
Coventry,
Warwickshire.
Friday 01.07.83

Dear Mr. Butcher,

Firstly, my apologies for burdening you with a problem, which, if you accept the charge, will further consume your valuable time and energy. Also, in placing this letter before you, I am cognisant of being an interim resident in Coventry, and, at that, living in an area outside your constituency.

Brief details of the following were aired at Queen's Road (Coventry Conservative Party H.Q.) to Gordon Whiting (professional agent) and Councillor Cynthia Hubbard, both of whom know me well through a (former) long and active history of membership of the Conservative Party.

To the point. On Saturday 18 June 1983 I arrived in Coventry from Ireland, the said being my place of domicile for the previous five years nine months. Two brief visits were made to Coventry in that time – a foray of 2/3 days in January 1981 and a stay of about five days in January of this year (1983).

On arrival in Coventry on Saturday 18 June I reported to Stoney Stanton Road police station, C.I.D. section, to Detective Steve Davies, who called upon the above address in the month of May (in fact, April) 1983 enquiring of my person on a matter of a "suspicious nature" or because I was reported as being seen "acting suspiciously".

The meeting with Detective Davies appeared cursory, he being friendly if not forthcoming. He indicated the enquiry resulted as a consequence of an anonymous telephone call, and "the situation with Ireland being what it is" the report had to be checked out. Fair enough. I raise no objections to a member of the public making a report on an issue which, if one takes Detective Davies statement at face value, related to possible or planned breach of security of a most serious nature.

However, for good reasons, I reject Detective Davies reason for initiating the investigation. Consequently I ask would you please determine answers to the following questions, by placing same before appropriate persons.

1) For whom did Detective Davies undertake investigations of my person? 2) Consequent of those investigations has a “file” been drawn up on my person? 3) Have the contents of that file been transferred to a third party? 4) Whom?

Alluding to "been seen acting suspiciously". Pray, where and when did this apply?

*** ***

I drop a line because I wish to detach from the above the content that is to follow.

When in Ireland, during the latter part of my stay there, I was conscious of a curious nature of enquiries made into my person. Apropos to this suggestion, the names of some of the interested parties are in my possession.

I have aspiration to travel and hold ambition to invest my capital in a manner offering security and profit. Success in this aim is dependent upon my possessing a good name and having an integrity that is above private or public challenge.

That you might establish the integrity of my name, by placing the above questions before the appropriate persons, is the reason for this letter.

In a matter of days (17 July) I aim to go abroad and remain abroad for a period of not less than several months. A response at the earliest moment would be appreciated.

With every best wish.

Yours sincerely,
(Seán Kelly)




Mr. John Butcher M.P.
The Gilbert Richards Centre,
Broadway,
Earlsdon,
Coventry.

Fig B1

Fig B2

Fig B3

Note: The above B2 and B3 letters were picked up in New Zealand on Sunday 02.10.83 at the Mount Eden Youth Hostel in Auckland. Two weeks later there was an intelligence agency attempt to kill me in Abel Tasman National Park, South Island, New Zealand. – Seán Kelly.

Fig B4

Note: B4, an envelope, in which items B2 and B3 were contained. It is post timed 8.15pm Friday 16 September 1983. The covering letter within is dated Monday 12 September 1983. – Seán Kelly

Fig B5a

Fig B5b

Fig B5c

Note: The immediately above two items (B5b & B5c; back/front of a card) were forwarded by post, with B5a, and received on Wednesday 7 December 1983. The day before, Tuesday 6, I had been in telephone conversation with Mr. Butcher’s House of Commons office and was told the matter was receiving the attention of the Home Secretary – “Leon Brittan himself”. Forwarding the above items was to confirm that impression. In time I learned my charge on an intelligence agency attempt to murder was falsely registered by the Home Office as a complaint on surveillance and a reply to that false charge had been placed on file in November 1983.

Seán Kelly

Fig B6

Note:

1) See the stamped date on the above (B6) letter: 6 DEC 1984. That is one day after a long letter from me to the media and others in which I first attempted to publicly unfold details and background to attempts to murder me. In case I should get the story off the ground the above letter would appear to have been a pre-emptive shot by the Home Office to counter a perceived propaganda onslaught. If the intention of the Home Office was to make a liar of me, they managed admirably of making one of themselves.

2) First paragraph (end): "I also enclose copies....of Mr. Kelly's previous letters which he has asked to have." These items not forwarded.

3) Second line, second paragraph, and the reference to Mr. Hurd’s letter of “23 November 1983”. This was the first mention of the phantom letter, a letter that one assumes was on Home Office records as dated against a complaint on surveillance, a complaint not made by me. Hence the very good reason for the letter not being contemporaneously forwarded. The charge made to Mr. John Butcher MP on Friday 28 October 1983 was on an intelligence agency attempt to murder me while abroad. It seems it was the collective strategy of Mr. Butcher and the Home Office to cook the books by placing on file a false charge and answering it with a letter they not unsurprisingly witheld from me. B6 above by Mr. Giles Shaw was undoubtedly a vehicle to introduce the existence of Mr. Hurd’s letter of 23 November 1983. (For a copy of the 23.11.83 letter see item B7 below with footnote.) – Seán Kelly.

Fig B7

Note: The original of the above (Fig B7) letter was never sent to me. This file copy was forwarded by Mr. John Butcher MP in January 1985. The wording of the letter confirms it was a response to a complaint on surveillance. The charge made by me was on an intelligence agency attempt to murder while abroad. Item B6 above dates this letter to 23 November 1983; its author was the then Minister of State at the Home Office, Douglas Hurd MP. One reasonably assumes it was on file as it is dated. It was not contemporaneously forwarded to me. Worse still, in the coming months I was actively deceived of its existence with the pretense that the matter was receiving the attention of the Home Secretary – “Leon Brittan himself.” No return was forthcoming on the charge of attempted murder. Nor did Mr. Leon Brittan ever write to me; not least that I was made aware of. – Seán Kelly.

Fig B8

Note: It took six months of pestering to get this admission from Mr. Butcher. Of the three letters “mislaid” two were hand delivered. Only those letters pertaining to the period on the report of the murder attempt got lost. All other items of correspondence outside that context remained in Mr. Butcher’s possession. – Seán Kelly.

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