MI5 turned a blind eye to “grotesque” crimes committed by a British spy who infiltrated the IRA during the Troubles, a damning report has found. Agent Stakeknife worked within the internal security ...

There is growing pressure on the government to formally name an MI5 spy who operated at the heart of the IRA for decades. Freddie Scappaticci, known by his codename “Stakeknife”, was outed in an ...

MI5’s initial failure to disclose all it knew about the Army’s top spy in the Provisional IRA during the Troubles was a “significant failure”, an independent report into the activities of Stakeknife ...