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	Stakeknife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reports claim that Stakeknife has been working for the British for 25 years.
		Stakeknife had his own dedicated handlers and agents and it was suggested that he was important enough that MI5 set up an office dedicated solely to him.
		Serious allegations have emerged to the effect that the British government allowed up to forty people to be killed to protect his cover.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stakeknife (278 words)

	Stakeknife Named: British double agent who murdered for the IRA
		Stakeknife’s card has been marked since Sir John Stevens, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, revealed last month that he intended to question him as part of a long-running inquiry into alleged collusion by the security forces in paramilitary killings.
		Stakeknife, whose existence was revealed by The Sunday Times four years ago, was regarded by the British military as “the jewel in the crown” of its network of agents in Ireland.
		Stakeknife was recently advised by the army to move to the republic so he would be outside Stevens’s jurisdiction.
	cryptome.sabotage.org /fru-stakeknife.htm (2048 words)

	Force Research Unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Stakeknife" is thought to have been a member of the PIRA's Internal Security Unit- a unit responsible for counter-intelligence, interrogation and court martial of informers within the IRA.
		It is alleged that after the FRU discovered "Stakeknife" was in danger from UDA assassination they used Brian Nelson to persuade the UDA to assassinate Roman Catholic Francisco Notarantonio instead- a Belfast pensioner who had been interned in the 1940s.
		There is also suspicion in Irish republican circles that the real "Stakeknife" and/or other British agents have yet to be unmasked, this suspicion was compounded by the revelation that Denis Donaldson was a mole within Sinn Féin/the Republican movement, and by interviews given by the man calling himself "Kevin Fulton" in March 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Force_Research_Unit (2958 words)

	Secret life of Stakeknife driven by revenge - theage.com.au
		Stakeknife's involvement in his death will be the subject of talks between London and Dublin.
		Stakeknife's exposure is believed to have been prompted by a compensation dispute between the British and a former soldier who infiltrated the IRA.
		Whatever the outcome of Stakeknife's unveiling, the Stevens inquiry and the ongoing political shenanigans in Belfast, Dublin and London, it is clear that five years on from the Good Friday agreement the road to a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland has become just a bit longer.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/16/1052885401701.html (1238 words)

	Stakeknife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Stakeknife is the code name of a spy who infiltrated the Provisional IRA, at a high level, as a double agent working for the top secret British Force Research Unit.
		Stakeknife had his own dedicated handlers and agents and he was important enough that MI5 set up an office dedicated solely to him.
		Rumors say that Stakeknife was being paid at least 80,000 pounds a year.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/st/stakeknife.html (138 words)

	Shroud of the foggy dew - smh.com.au
		Codenamed "Stakeknife", he was the alleged kingpin in a network of agents in Northern Ireland run by the army's shadowy and discredited Force Research Unit (FRU).
		In Stakeknife's case, on the republican side of the equation, Stevens might have to start by asking how much was known by the FRU and its political masters about the 1987 murder by loyalists of Francis Notarantonio, an ageing IRA sympathiser.
		Whatever the outcome of Stakeknife's unveiling, the Stevens inquiry and the ongoing political shenanigans in Belfast, Dublin and London, it is clear that five years on from the Good Friday agreement, the road to a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland has become a bit longer.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/15/1052885344322.html (1621 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: An Irish Murder Mystery -- May 26, 2003 \| Vol. 161 No. 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Stakeknife's reports were said to be so detailed that the British needed a dedicated team of experts to sift through all the facts.
		The Stakeknife story is all the more dramatic because of allegations by a former British Army spymaster, known by the pseudonym Martin Ingram, that the agent ordered and participated in "multiple" nutting squad murders of other informers to protect his own identity.
		But Stakeknife and others — in both the I.R.A. and loyalist groups — are believed to have taken that license further and killed, either to confirm their terrorist credentials or advance other interests, like drug dealing.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,452792,00.html (853 words)

	Disturbing Facts: 05_07_26
		Stakeknife was named in several Sunday newspapers as Alfredo Scappaticci, a name that sounds closer to a mafia godfather than an IRA one.
		Stakeknife was reported to have been paid around £80,000 a year and to have had an entire team within military intelligence's most secret unit, the force research unit, dedicated to run him.
		Through Stakeknife, the FRU would also have known who had fallen under the IRA's suspicion as an agent, and when and where they were likely to be "arrested", tortured and executed.
	disturbingfacts.blogspot.com /2005_07_26_disturbingfacts_archive.html (1260 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Twenty-five years ago, Stakeknife, having been horribly beaten by an IRA high-up whom he had offended in some way, walked into an Army base in Belfast and said he wanted to help.
		When he finally got there, Stakeknife is said to have shot him in the back of the head.
		The target they had in mind was Stakeknife but he had to be saved and so Notorantonio was duly murdered by the loyalists in front of his grandchildren.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/05/13/do1302.xml (783 words)

	Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
		Stakeknife was up to his eyes in murder.
		It is again impossible to go into detail without revealing identities and putting more lives at risk, but Stakeknife WAS one of a number of targets for the UFF at the time who were keen to take out a big name republican.
		Stakeknife remains the crown jewel of British Intelligence in Northern Ireland.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/Sunday_People/arts2002/stakeknife6-23-02.html (1011 words)

	The Stakeknife Affair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Among some of the stories that have appeared in the newspapers in relation to ‘Stakeknife’, the alleged senior IRA informer, is that he was involved in setting up myself and others for arrest thirteen years ago.
		Stakeknife’s usefulness as an informant might have expired, but rumours of his existence and claims about his seniority and influence, however preposterous, have been used in recent years by British Intelligence in an attempt to sow confusion and fuel republican dissent.
		Firstly, it said that Stakeknife was safely out of Ireland and was in a British army base in the south of England.
	www.dannymorrison.com /articles/stakeknife.php (1027 words)

	CNN.com - 'Top spy in IRA' is named - May. 11, 2003
		The alleged mole, codenamed "Stakeknife," who once headed the Provisional IRA's "Internal Security Unit" and was a member of its general headquarters staff, was reportedly in hiding after his identity was exposed in the papers and on websites, the UK's Press Association said.
		Stakeknife was also said to have provided his military handlers with the information which led to the so-called "Death On The Rock" killings of three IRA volunteers in Gibraltar in 1988 by the SAS, according to the Sunday Herald in Glasgow.
		The man named as "Stakeknife" was reported to have been a low-level informant in the IRA's west Belfast brigade before being subjected to a punishment beating by the terrorist grouping during the late 1970s.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/05/11/uk.spy/index.html (694 words)

	Doubts Swirl Around Tales Of 'Stakeknife' (washingtonpost.com)
		Stakeknife, whose existence was first reported by the news media four years ago, was purportedly a senior member of the outlawed IRA who worked secretly for the British army.
		Paid some $130,000 per year, Stakeknife purportedly provided intelligence that was regularly read by British prime ministers and that led to one of the most infamous moments in the dirty war: the gunning down by British special forces of three unarmed IRA operatives in Britain's Mediterranean colony of Gibraltar in 1988.
		Notarantonio's daughter, Margaret O'Connor, still lives in the housing project where her father was killed and where her son Joe, a member of an IRA faction that feuded with the central leadership, was gunned down 13 years later by masked gunmen.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7534-2003May18¬Found=true (1137 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| British army spy at heart of IRA death squad unmasked
		The agent is said to have been responsible for the death of many republicans he judged guilty of being informers, including the horrific triple murder of fellow FRU agents Aidan Starrs, Gregory Burns and John Dignam in south Armagh in 1992.
		Among these was said to be 66-year-old Francisco Notarantonio, shot in his bed in west Belfast in 1987 by loyalist paramilitaries after being suggested as an alternative to their original target, Scappaticci.
		Nevertheless, the case is sure to fuel calls for a wide-reaching public inquiry, and perhaps some sort of truth commission into all the goings-on in the security forces' so-called "dirty war" against terrorists.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,953960,00.html (770 words)

	Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article
		As Stakeknife's role in the IRA was the identification of informers his case further blurs the line between collusion and informing.
		We all know that both sides got their hands dirty in the dirty war but we are all so skilled at unpicking the threads of each other's arguments that we lose sight of the larger tapestry.
		Where those green and orange threads will not unravel from each other, as in the case of Stakeknife, any group that claims to seek the truth for future generations should seize upon both ends – and those that will not must justify their selective approach to the past.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/irish_news/arts2005/jul7_failing_Stakeknife_test__NEmerson.php (757 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: 'Stakeknife' Scappaticci gone into hiding
		Senior security sources confirmed the man identified as Stakeknife was Alfredo ‘Freddie’ Scappaticci, military intelligence’s most powerful spy, who had initially resisted warnings to get out of the North because his security had been compromised.
		Stakeknife, who lived at addresses in both Belfast and Dublin and was interned during the 1970s, has spent decades in the IRA.
		Stakeknife is thought to have been involved in the killings of loyalists, policemen, soldiers, and civilians to protect his cover so he could keep passing vital intelligence.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2003/05/12/story98642.html (573 words)

	NewsMine.org - deadly mole ira.txt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		STAKEKNIFE, the IRA chief executioner involved in the deaths of more than 40 victims, was the Army's leading mole inside the terrorist organisation.
		Stakeknife is said to have provided the information which led to the Death on the Rock killings, when IRA volunteers Sean Savage, Mairead Farrell and Danny McCann were shot in Gibraltar by the SAS in 1988.
		Stakeknife personally executed other Army agents, finding out if they were able to expose him before shooting them in the head.
	newsmine.org /archive/coldwar-imperialism/ira-dirty-war/deadly-mole-ira.txt (1286 words)

	Politics in the Zeros
		Stakeknife would have been a closely guarded secret and yet the newspapers have been chock-a-block full of details of his life.
		Stakeknife does exist but is not the man identified.
		It is possible IRA leaders know the Stakeknife story to be a fabrication but are using it to discredit the Government.
	www.polizeros.com /pzarchive/radio/2003/05/14.html (957 words)

	British Irish Rights Watch
		Stakeknife is also alleged to have set Danny Morrison up for arrest in 1990 over the Sandy Lynch affair.
		Stakeknife is also said to have facilitated Operation Santa, just before Christmas 1978, when he and another IRA man known as “Bald Eagle” were sent to England to activate a team of IRA sleepers and launch a bombing campaign in Britain.
		For example, Stakeknife told FRU that he had witnessed one high-profile republican shoot an informer in the head, and had provided intelligence which allowed FRU to recruit two very close relatives of another.
	www.birw.org /Stakeknife.html (5314 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Several newspapers said Stakeknife was promoted to the IRA's general headquarters alongside current Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, and served through much of the 1980s and 1990s as head of the IRA's internal security unit.
		Sunday's reports said Stakeknife had alerted his British handlers of the informer's interrogation and the likelihood that Morrison would become involved.
		The unmasking of Stakeknife is just the latest evidence that British intelligence had numerous inroads into militant Irish republicanism.
	uttm.com /stories/2003/05/12/world/printable553436.shtml (968 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Britain's top agent within IRA reportedly in hiding after identity exposed
		Dublin's Sunday Tribune newspaper carried a detailed account of Stakeknife's career and said his principal motivation for betraying the IRA was a desire for revenge after he was beaten by a senior Belfast IRA man.
		The reports said Stakeknife lived in Belfast until recently, then relocated to a secret residence south of Dublin before fleeing this week to England – probably to the Force Research Unit's base in rural Dorset.
		Commentators said Stakeknife would have been able to tell his British bosses the identity of every IRA member in Northern Ireland, and arrange for certain IRA personnel to be promoted – and others to be eliminated by being branded as informers.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030511-1151-nireland-secretagent.html (763 words)

	Stakeknife Update
		Freddie Scappaticci, 59, who has been named by the press as the agent code-named Stakeknife, was allowed general security measures – but was turned down for the key person’s scheme, which would have given him a police guard.
		There was some doubt about whether Stakeknife existed, or was a “piece of mischief” introduced by someone from inside the security forces or by members of the press, Mr Lavery said.
		After he was identified by several newspapers and a website as Stakeknife, British intelligence sources insisted Mr Scappaticci supplied information on the IRA during the Troubles.
	cryptome.sabotage.org /fru-stakeknife2.htm (1191 words)

	Telegraph \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The man named as Stakeknife, the IRA informer, issued a statement through his solicitor yesterday in which he denied that he was ever a spy for Army intelligence.
		The mystery of Stakeknife's whereabouts deepened yesterday when Army sources denied that he was in their "custody" but confirmed that it had run an agent codenamed Stakeknife.
		While Stakeknife would have known a lot of "tittle tattle" because he was highly trusted by IRA leaders, he would not have known about major operations, one source claimed.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/14/nife14.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/05/14/ixportal.html (694 words)

	Why this man is Stakeknife - [Sunday Herald]
		Stakeknife took part in murders to keep his cover, and in the execution of IRA informers as a member of the Provos' Internal Security Unit.
		Referring to Stakeknife's role in the execution of informers, the FRU officer said: 'Generally speaking he wouldn't have pulled the trigger.
		Stakeknife provided his handlers with information about sexual peccadillos, gambling debts and other incriminating or potentially useful information on IRA members that the FRU would use in an attempt to recruit new informers.
	www.sundayherald.com /33921 (4639 words)

	SAOIRSE32 :: Stakeknife :: February :: 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sir John, who was elevated to the House of Lords yesterday as he spent his last day as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, told the Belfast Telegraph he is preparing to disclose which murders are being linked to the Army agent at the heart of the IRA.
		The agent known as Stakeknife is alleged to have carried out murders in order to maintain his cover as a senior IRA member.
		He said he will be bringing the squads investigating Stakeknife and the death of Diana “together under one roof” in the Greater London area.
	saoirse32.blogsome.com /2005/02/01/stakeknife (557 words)

	Admiral Quixote's Roundtable: A Nasty Business (hat tip to Drew)
		"Stakeknife" was the codename for the IRA's head assassin, the one they sent after disloyal IRA members.
		Unlike make believe spies, Stakeknife is alleged to have participated in the killing of innocents to maintain his cover.
		In "retirement" Stakeknife has struck one last blow at the heart of the terrorist organization.
	www.solport.com /roundtable/archives/000050.php (577 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Stakeknife: Uncovering the hidden war
		However, what made the Notarantonio case unique was the suggestion that he was killed to protect a top-level IRA mole codenamed "Stakeknife".
		Today, we know that Stakeknife did indeed operate within the higher echelons of the IRA - a revelation that completely changes our understanding of the secret intelligence war.
		The full story of Stakeknife, a story republicans will not necessarily want told, may turn out to be far more sinister than anything that has gone before it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/3018537.stm (850 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: 'Stakeknife' author 'Martin Ingram' is in the hot seat...
		Slugger O'Toole: 'Stakeknife' author 'Martin Ingram' is in the hot seat...
		He was co-author of ‘Stakeknife’, the whistleblowing account of British agents in the IRA and their nefarious activities.
		In the instance of Mr Fulton, he was approached by a fellow member of the IRA and RUC Agent who informed Fulton that to attend the third meeting with Stakeknife was to end in tears and a six foot grave.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2004/11/stakeknife_auth.php (1760 words)

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