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A handler who knew him on tap so that stakeknife always saw a soldier that he knew. scappaticci was handled with care because he was worth it. he had access to every ira department. he knew who was on the up, personal weaknesses, insights that could prove useful for turning others. he even vetted new recruits. the unit designed to protect the ira was, in effect, a gift to its enemy. the moment anything from stakeknife came in, we knew it had to be handed on immediately. it was definitely high—...

So that stakeknife always saw a soldier that he knew. scappaticci was handled with care because he was worth it. he had access to every ira department. he knew who was on the up, personal weaknesses, insights that could prove useful for turning others. he even vetted new recruits. the unit designed to protect the ira was, in effect, a gift to its enemy. the moment anything from stakeknife came in, we knew it had to be handed on immediately. it was definitely high—grade, about policy, rather th...

Joe fenton, a suspected informer, had first been interrogated in this house before his execution. its also where, several months later, another suspected informer, sandy lynch, was brought to. his account of what happened to him gives us the greatest insight into scappaticci at work as a spy catcher. an actor is giving voice to edited extracts of what lynch told the authorities about his ordeal. i belonged to the provisional irish republican army. the unit was under control of the belfast brigad...

In later years, ive come to the view that thats perhaps what the internal security units real raison detre was, the real purpose was to protect the army council. the british wanted that army council post—1983 in place because they knew that the army council were assets, and i differentiate between assets and agents here, that they were assets in as far as they were going to deliver a solution. former ira prisoner gerard hodgins knew scappaticci to be part of the iras security unit. i would hav...

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Although he consistently denied it, Alfredo “Freddie” Scappaticci, who has died in his 77th year, was widely believed to be a high-level source for the British Army in the Provisional IRA — and went under the code-name “Stakeknife”. It is understood he died of natural causes, was buried in England last week and no inquest will be held. He reportedly settled in Manchester when he left Northern Ireland in 2003.

He always denied being a mole and an investigation into the allegations and his activities in an IRA ‘nutting squad’ has yet to report

Of the iras internal security unit. joining me now for more on this is the journalistjohn ware. what role did he play in the unit? he became head of it towards the end of his time there and his job was in essence to protect the security of the ira. it was a gestapo, to put it bluntly. and you know, to sort out informers and agents when they thought they had a case against them, they would bring them in for interrogations. he was one of the key interrogators and his task would be getting the conf...