Freddie Scappaticci was the feared leader of the Provisional IRA's "Nutting Squad", the Internal Security Unit tasked with identifying informers – and with abducting, torturing and executing them as ...

Double agent Freddie Scappaticci (pictured at the 1987 funeral of IRA man Larry Marley) was involved in 14 executions and 15 abductions - Pacemaker Press Almost exactly a year ago, on April 23 2024, ...

LONDON -- A recurring theme in the bloodstained "dirty war" between the Irish Republican Army and British forces in Northern Ireland is that of betrayal: IRA traitors who sold out their comrades and ...

The emergence of reports in 2003 about a high-level British secret agent in the IRA, known as Stakeknife, left republican leaders in Northern Ireland “paralysed and damaged”, according to ...

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- The top British agent within the Irish Republican Army -- a man code-named "Stakeknife" who played a central role inside the outlawed group for decades -- has fled Ireland ...

LONDON — A seven-year investigation of a former Irish Republican Army double agent concluded Friday in an interim report that the spy was probably responsible for more deaths than lives saved during ...

The interim report published this month from Operation Kenova, the police investigation into the British spy “Stakeknife”, confirmed that British agents within the Provisional Irish Republican Army ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Police commanders have unveiled a mammoth criminal investigation into a former Irish Republican Army double agent codenamed "Stakeknife," who was allegedly permitted ...

Up to five informers and agents may have been involved in events that led to the IRA killing of a west Belfast man wrongly accused of being an informer, his family believe. Michael Kearney (20) was ...

An IRA man wrongly accused of being an informer was cleared after a promise was made to his devastated mother. Michael Kearney was abducted and shot dead by the IRA in July 1979. In 2003, the ...