Codename Stakeknife - who is he ?

The British government and the intelligence services have been warned that the true identity of Stakeknife, the codename for Britain's key double-agent at the heart of the IRA and Sinn Fein, will be blown in one week.

The threats have been made by Kevin Fulton, a cover name for a former British soldier who worked as an agent inside the IRA for the army's Force Research Unit (FRU), an ultra-secret intelligence wing.

Fulton is threatening to expose the identity of Stakeknife because he claims the Ministry of Defence have not honoured a promise to provide him with a relocation package after his cover was blown in Ulster.....

......As an agent for the British, Stakeknife was allowed to carry out terrorist operations with impunity to preserve his cover. One intelligence source said: 'If he hadn't been murdering people, then he would have been rumbled as an agent in no time.' Stakeknife has killed soldiers, police officers, civilians and fellow republicans. The number of his murder victims is believed to run into double figures.

www.sundayherald.com...

THE British army's most deadly double agent, who operated at the very heart of the IRA, has been identified as Alfredo 'Freddy' Scappaticci, known to spy-masters by the codename 'Stakeknife'.
As the British government's most powerful weapon in its 30-year 'dirty war' against the IRA and Sinn Fein, Scappaticci is suspected of being allowed by the army's Force Research Unit (FRU) to take part in up to 40 murders. He is said to have been involved in the killings of loyalists, policemen, soldiers, and civilians to protect his cover so he could keep passing top-grade intelligence to the British. He also kidnapped, interrogated, tortured and killed other IRA men suspected of being British informers.


www.sundayherald.com...

The BBC confirmed this and "Alfredo Scappaticci", this morning (GMT + 8): it's hard to know what to make of it; but it looks like "disinfo", or carefully timed and edited "info" to me.

So what happened to "Steakknife"? Has he been arrested, relocated, assassinated?

Originally posted by dragonrider
So what happened to "Steakknife"? Has he been arrested, relocated, assassinated?

From the reports I've seen he ws taken out of Northern Ireland yesterday and may be holed up in a military base in the south of England.
But who knows.

Apparently relocated to England over the weekend (which means probably relocated to Ecuador three months ago!).
The conspiracy angle here is -who does it benefit, or harm? It's relatively innocuous as far as Blair is concerned: moost of what happened would have happened under the Conservatives, one imagines.
It makes British Intelligence look pretty good: on the other hand they appear powerless to stop the publication.
And, of course, one man's masterspy is another man's murderer.
The IRA look fairly stupid and Adams in particular as this person was -it is claimed -a personal friend.

The Guardian has a fair bit on it this morning -believe as you will, I think-
www.guardian.co.uk...

Any information on who he is? Former SAS, MI5, freelancer, former CIA?

Civilian spy -working for something called the "the Force Research Unit" -which is described as "shadowy".

He is paid between 60,000 and 80,000 lbs a year, directly deposited to a Gilbraltar bank account.

Right side of page, one third way down.

www.irelandsown.net...

Although this is somewhat old news, I wonder why it is brought up again? Disinformation has a way of reappearing, and real news of fading...

[Edited on 12-5-2003 by ADVISOR]

His payments seem remarkably cheap considering the position he was in.
I would have thought he would have demanded at least 10 times this and the Brits would have paid.

Heres another source, it also has the payment, which is probably underestimated. If he would have been hired in todays times I imagine he would have made ten times more. I also says stakeknife is in his sixties now!

www.thescotsman.co.uk...

this link is better

www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk...

[Edited on 12-5-2003 by ADVISOR]

Originally posted by mad scientist
His payments seem remarkably cheap considering the position he was in.I would have thought he would have demanded at least 10 times this and the Brits would have paid.

Dont say that. His payment is still good enought and there are many chances that he never see the color of this money. These kind of agents dont work for the money and intelligence service never pay well. Th british governement will probably abandon him in the hand of the IRA when the war between Ireland and Britain will finish... If it's cover is not still "burn".

Spies are only pawns on the political chessboard and they never live young or have the benefit of them acts.

Forget what you seen in James BOND or other movies. The work of a secret agent is ingratfull, dangerous and it's paid really cheap, because they have no retirement.

There is no war between Ireland and Britain Nans. There's just a bunch of terrorists who tried to give themselves an image of validity by describing their actions as "war". Fact is, they targeted civilians, and are on the whole a bunch of thugs.

That said, at least they've stopped bombing now. Respect to them for that.

Oh, and they've caused an infinitely greater number of civilian casualties on the British mainland than Al-Quada. Remember, Al-Quada have killed no British people on the mainland, there's never been a terrorist bomb attack by them in the UK, and still we're happily signing up to iris-scans on passports, and 14 day lockup periods for suspected terrorists.

The IRA... there was a proper scary terrorist organisation...

He's reported as being under armed guard at a "former US base", to-day.
This all seems rather "engineered" to put it mildly.