Stakeknife

Stakeknife

"Stakeknife" [cite news
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] is the code name of a spy who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), at a high level, as an agent working for the top secret British Force Research Unit (FRU). Reports claim that "Stakeknife" has been working for the British for 25 years. [cite news
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title = He did the IRA's dirty work for 25 years - and was paid £80,000 a year by the government
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"Stakeknife" had his own dedicated handlers and agents and it was suggested that he was important enough that MI5 set up an office dedicated solely to him. Rumours suggested that he was being paid at least £80,000 a year and had a bank account in Gibraltar. [cite news
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title = Why this man is STAKEKNIFE INVESTIGATION
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Serious allegations have emerged to the effect that the British government allowed up to forty people to be killed via the IRA's Internal Security Unit or "Nutting Squad" to protect his cover. [cite news
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On May 11, 2003, several newspapers named Freddie Scappaticci as "Stakeknife". Scappaticci denied the claims and launched an unsuccessful legal action to have the British government state he was not their agent. [cite news
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] He later left Northern Ireland and was rumoured to be living in Cassino, Italy. There were also reported sightings in Tenerife. [cite news
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title = British spy hunted by IRA flees refuge
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A report in a February 2007 edition of the Belfast News Letter reported that a cassette recording allegedly of Scappaticci talking about the number of murders he was involved in via the "Nutting Squad", as well as his work as an Army agent, had been lodged with the PSNI in 2004 and subsequently passed to the Stevens Inquiry in 2005. [cite news
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title = Stakeknife tape emerges after News Letter probe
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The former British Intelligence agent who worked in the FRU known as "Martin Ingram" has written a book titled "Stakeknife" since the original allegations came to light in which he accuses Scappaticci of being the agent in question.

References

Further reading

* Greg Harkin and Martin Ingram (2004), "Stakeknife: Britain's secret agents in Ireland", O'Brien Press
* [http://www.birw.org/Stakeknife.html British Irish Rights Watch Report]


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