Pinned, for the memory of the child.
Quoting: Feisty Broad Thanks!
Madeleine will turn 14 next week. Last week was the 10th anniversary of the day she vanished.
The OP documents that British investigators were told to NOT pursue evidence of her parents pedo associations.
She almost certainly is not dead and she was not abducted by a stranger. All evidence points to her parents and a massive hoax/coverup by the British government to deliver her to an elite pedo/network.
Chapter 4, The Partners (Part 1)
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State”
James Jesus Angleton, CIA Counterintelligence Chief, 1954 to 1975
“We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that.”
The character Christof in “The Truman Show”
ABOUT A YEAR after Madeleine vanished, Madeleine’s Fund had produced nothing useful. It was around then when two gentlemen with intelligence connections partnered up to pitch Madeleine’s Fund. e Fund had money and BK was hiring. The two partners were Henri’ Exton and Kevin Halligen. Exton was the more senior of the pair, however the contract was awarded to Oakley International, the rm of the junior partner.
According to a Sunday Times article on November 2, 2009,
“Madeleine had been missing for a year when Brian Kennedy, the millionaire philanthropist who had invested heavily in a fund to find the little girl, contacted Halligen’s firm via Exton.”
Brian Kennedy knew of Exton and contacted him. Exton referred Kennedy to Halligen. Kennedy hired Halligen’s firm to work for Madeleine’s Fund. Halligen brought Exton along.
Exton is the real deal. He’s the former head of undercover operations for MI5; he ran undercover operations, in infiltrators, agents and cut-outs.
During the “troubles” in Northern Ireland, Exton ran what are called “supergrasses”. Supergrasses (the term may derive from “snakes in the grass”) are turncoats, informers, provocateurs and operatives who MI5 recruited from among, and used against, the Northern Irish paramilitaries.
Exton was also responsible for penetrating organized crime rings and gangs; he became the leader of one particularly notorious gang organized around Manchester City. According to an article in the Daily Mail on August 23, 2008 (the article is no longer available online), Exton’s leadership position with the gang involved planning, directing and committing various criminal acts.
Kevin Halligen was also known as Kevin Halligan, Richard Hall, and a number of other aliases. We’ll go with Halligen. Halligen’s background is murky; he reportedly worked for the British Atomic Energy Agency. After leaving their employ, he claimed to work (variously) for MI5, MI6, the CIA and the British GCHQ. According to a late August 2009 article in the Evening Standard (since retracted), “very little of that is true”. Halligen was born in Dublin and also claimed to have “operational experience” in Northern Ireland.
Exton and Halligen reportedly met in 2007 at the Special Forces Club in London’s Knightsbridge neighborhood. The Club’s members are from Britain’s secret services and special forces. A Sunday Times article from November 22, 2009 reports Halligen was invited to become a Club member by its then chairman, Major Donald Palmer, and by Major General John Holmes, a former commander of the SAS. The SAS is the British Army’s elite military unit, equivalent to the Delta Force or Navy Seals in the U.S.
It was at the Special Forces Club that Exton reportedly met Halligen. Exton and Halligen may have met at the Special Forces Club in 2007, but it is more likely they met up at the Club they both frequented. In any event, Exton and Halligen swam in the same pond; they were both welcome at the Special Forces Club.
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Chapter 4, The Partners (Part 1)
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Irrespective of when or where they met, Exton had not just fallen off the turnip lorry; he is as experienced an undercover operator as anyone might imagine. According to the Sunday Times, Exton is the former National Head of undercover operations for MI5. MI5 is the British domestic intelligence service; it can be thought of as the equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unconstrained by the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. Exton worked undercover for MI5 and came to run its undercover operations. Exton was decorated by the Queen and awarded a coveted Order of the British Empire medal.
Exton and Halligen secured an appointment with Madeleine’s Fund to make their pitch: they would conduct an extensive and sophisticated investigation and search; they would leave no stone unturned; they would set up their own undercover operations and a surveillance operation in Portugal; they would re-interview witnesses; they would extend their investigation to include pedophile networks elsewhere in Europe; Halligen would travel to Washington, DC to obtain satellite surveillance data from his intelligence contacts there. They would set up a call center. That’s the short list.
Team Mccann bit, agreeing to pay the pair £100,000 monthly for five months work, plus expenses according to the redacted Evening Standard article published in late August 2009. The two partners were not extending their charity rate.
The partner’s credentials might have seemed well suited for the assignment. That finding missing people wasn’t something the pair had done much of did not dissuade BK and Team Mccann; the Fund was at an impasse with nothing to show for their efforts. The pair might get results where others failed.
Unfortunately, the Fund’s new hot-shot investigators had a few problems.
Exton had been apprehended about five years earlier for nicking a bottle of perfume from a duty-free store at the Manchester airport while he was on an undercover assignment for MI5.
Nicking the perfume seems like a silly thing for Exton to have done. Maybe he was stressed. Whether a momentary lapse of judgment, or something else, when the local police showed up his cover was blown. Exton reportedly agreed to a “caution”, effectively admitting the shoplifting charge, after which he was let go by MI5. About a year later Exton’s caution was rescinded and he seems to have been allowed to retire. Looks like he was going to keep his pension. At some point Exton reportedly claimed and received compensation for PTSD.
The bottle of perfume turned out to be the least of the pair’s problems. According to the November 22, 2009 Sunday Times article, Halligen had an inauspicious start in the private security business.
“His first entry into the private security business was as technical director for the Inkerman Group, a company set up by Gerald Moor, an ex-army intelligence officer. The job ended abruptly in 2003 after Halligen drank Moor’s stocks of champagne and “irreplaceable” burgundy while house-sitting for a couple of weeks.”
It seems Halligen had already acquired much of the skills that would further his career. A few years later, just before he and Exton partnered up for the Madeleine’s Fund job, Halligen defrauded a large multi-national company named Trafigura. As a result, Halligen was indicted in the U.S. and subsequently convicted for fraud in 2009.
Halligen’s contributions to find Madeleine included supplying a single google earth image, hiring an actor to pretend to be a ‘drunken priest’ to seek confessions among the patrons of bars in Praia da Luz, and setting up a hot line from which he never bothered to collect the messages. To the extent Oakley International accomplished any real investigative work on behalf of Madeleine’s Fund it wasn’t Halligen who got it done.
One of the highest priorities for Brian Kennedy was to obtain a facial image of a man an Irish family had observed carrying a sleeping, young, white girl in the vicinity around the time Madeleine disappeared. Kennedy had been unsuccessful in getting a facial reconstruction of this man. The job was assigned to Exton. It took a bit of doing, but Exton pulled it off. Exton delivered the photo-fit facial images of a man dubbed “Smithman” to Madeleine’s Fund in late 2008.
Despite Exton’s success in obtaining the long-sought facial image of Smithman, things did not go well. Four months into their engagement with the Fund, Exton and Halligen were let go. They were paid most or all their £500,000 fee. Exton submitted his report to the Fund with the Smithman images around November 2008 and went on his way. As we shall see, Halligen was attending to another matter.
