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Stakeknife was also the iras most feared interrogator, believed to have been linked to the murder of 17 suspected informers. Astonishingly, some were also working for british intelligence. Their families have suffered for decades without getting answers to their questions. Were they informers . Were their confessions real . Why werent they rescued . And why werent their killers brought to justice . Grieving families are at the very heart of kenova. Operation kenova this investigation now gives t...

Within the Ira Codenamed sta keknife. Stakeknife was also the iras most feared interrogator, believed to have been linked to the murder of 17 suspected informers. Astonishingly, some were also working for british intelligence. Their families have suffered for decades without getting answers to their questions. Were they informers . Were their confessions real . Why werent they rescued . And why werent their killers brought to justice . Grieving families are at the very heart of kenova. Operation...

hello and welcome. president biden will arrive in belfast, beginning a four—day trip in northern ireland. hes marking the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, a deal that brought three decades of conflict, known as the troubles, largely to an end. when he lands, hell be greeted by the british prime minister. a huge security operation is now in place. but the visit is going ahead in the absence of a devolved government in northern ireland is the power—sharing deal ushered ...

Special forces-linked Defence Human Intelligence Unit manages network of civilian agents in war zones

The author of a new book about an IRA informer’s murder believes the killing was ordered by Martin McGuinness and carried out by Freddie “Stakeknife” Scappaticci.

Ian Hurst was what we sometimes call ‘a spook’. During the Troubles he worked for the Force Research Unit, the British Army’s covert military intelligence group.

Were it not for the sudden resignation of Simon Byrne, the former chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland Sir Iain Livingstone…

Brigadier Gordon Kerr from Aberdeen, who’s now in his late 70s, can spend the rest of his days knowing he played an absolute blinder.

John O’Brien looks at the investigations into the activities of British Agent, Freddie Scappaticci, aka Stakeknife.

The decision by the Public Prosecution Service relates to three murders and two abduction cases.