British Military Intelligence Operative Inside IRA Murdered Dozens
July 13th, 2008Via: Sunday Herald:
MI5 HAS rebuilt the life of a “killer spy” who was the British Army’s highest- ranking double agent at the heart of the IRA, and a man implicated in dozens of murders.
Freddie Scappaticci was exposed by the Sunday Herald in May 2003 as the infamous double agent codenamed Stakeknife. The Sunday Herald has now uncovered how Scappaticci has made millions in a taxpayer-funded resettlement package which was put in place after his cover was blown.
As well as the huge financial deal, Scappaticci has also been given a new home, a new job, a new identity and a new face, thanks to plastic surgery. It is thought he is the only spy who operated in Ireland to be given facial surgery as part of a resettlement deal.
Scappaticci was an informer for the army’s Force Research Unit (FRU), a shadowy wing of military intelligence, which used terrorists on both sides of the divide in Northern Ireland as proxy assassins. The FRU allowed paramilitaries, who they were running as agents, to carry out bombings and shootings in order to preserve their cover and keep passing high grade information to their army handlers.
A FRU officer who ran Stakeknife as an agent told the Sunday Herald that Scappaticci had been allowed to take part in murders in order to maintain his cover as a high-ranking IRA officer. In total, the FRU handler said, the running of Stakeknife may have cost up to 40 lives.
Both human rights groups and former British Army intelligence officers who took part in the fight against terrorism in Ulster, but have since rejected many of the tactics used by the military, say Scappaticci should be interviewed by the police as a failure to do so undermines British justice.
To underscore just how valued Scappaticci is by British intelligence, the Sunday Herald was threatened with a court gagging order when MI5 was alerted that the paper planned to tell readers about Scappaticci’s new life.
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A former FRU officer said: “Freddie has been given a new face as he needs personal security. The state has no desire to ever allow Freddie to be put in the position where he has to explain himself.
“You have to remember that he will never have a normal life. The state does owe him this protection as he acted on behalf of the state and under the direction of the military for 25 years as a public executioner.”
The FRU officer estimated that Scappaticci was now a “millionaire many times over”. As well as bringing in an estimated £80,000 a year while working as a spy, his resettlement package would have been worth a small fortune.
In addition, the FRU source said he believed there was little real will by the government to go down the path of seeking truth and reconciliation in Ulster because of what skeletons it would bring out of the cupboard.
“The British state will not allow him to be interviewed by anyone as it would implicate the state. Can you imagine the financial consequences of up to 40 widows suing the state? It’s never going to be allowed to happen.
“Freddie Scappaticci will never be subjected to the courts, but if he is he shouldn’t be there alone,” the FRU source said.
Rumours persist there are others of higher rank who have been well recompensed for their co-operation with the British authorities, to the tune of prestigious positions within the Northern Ireland Assembly.
There is no establishment on earth more perfidious than the British one. They consistently betray their friends and buy off their enemies, manipulating, murdering and lying every step of the way.
Higher ranking than Scappaticci… Now that really would be interesting to learn about. If true, that’s got to be getting into “army council” territory.
Of course, best to spread the rumors, even if not true, for PSYOP value, from the British counter terror perspective.
Talk about not knowing which way was up… Not being able to tell black from white.
McGuinness and Adams, both convicted IRA terrorists, enjoy statesman status with all the concomitant perks and financial rewards. A lot of Irish Republicans here see them as now facilitating British rule in NI rather than resisting it, but critically, the Army Council retains control over the majority of the Provo organisation, which they have effectvely stood down. That said, targeting of ex RUC and UDR men continues according to police reports I get verbalised from an ex RUC contact. Our view is they (the IRA) do it just to maintain morale, but who knows how things could pan out if say, a United Ireland came about in 2016 as some pundits have predicted.
Ulster is a den of intrigue on a scale unimaginable to outsiders. At the heights of the Troubles, nobody trusted anybody, what with all the government infiltration of organisations (and they always tried to do that at the highest level possible, on both sides). Even MI5 were at war with MI6 for a time, although that was resolved in advance of the current peace process. And both of them were at war with the now defunct RUC’s Special Branch to the end, NI’s indigenous intel and counter terrorism service, reviled by the IRA and loved by the Unionists.
It was easy to get bogged down in the whole thing and a lot of guys I know are still that way, i.e., they can’t sleep at night for fear of the door being kicked in, they have flashbacks and nightmares, and so on. A lot have moved out of NI and seen their mental health pick up. The key thing for me is that a lot of NWO tactics have been refined here and are likely to be unleashed come martial law elsewhere.