https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgr884ndrgt
MI5 tried to cover up truth over 'Stakeknife' spy in IRA, report says
Report into British Army Agent ‘Stakeknife’ Published
A final report into an Army spy operating at heart of the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland has been published
Freddie Scappaticci, who the Army gave the codename 'Stakeknife', was a member of the IRA but was also feeding information to the Army
Scappaticci was linked to 14 murders and 15 abductions; he worked in a ruthless IRA unit known as the "nutting squad"
MI5 has been accused of attempting to "conceal the truth" about the links it had with Stakeknife
The report has called on the UK Government to name Stakeknife, who has never been officially identified by authorities
Today's report has also found no evidence UK security forces co-operated with the UVF to carry out the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings
The Glenanne gang was a loyalist paramilitary group responsible for the Dublin Monaghan bombings in which 33 people were killed, among other attacks
by rossitheking
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He was in the what squad
Brits investigating themselves.
>The review today finds “clear evidence” of the active involvement of members of the security forces “in a number of individual cases”.
>It adds: “This collusion involved extremely vicious and serious criminal activity, including bombing attacks and murder.”
>It said Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) “members or sympathisers” existed within the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), the Territorial Army and the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR).
>The UVF was supplied with intelligence by these “corrupt” individuals.
>A number of RUC officers had “inappropriate relationships” with members of the Mid-Ulster UVF, however, the review adds that ”
This should be a headline.
Of course they did, even assuming that the common belief that Stakeknife = Scappaticci is correct, and of course they have no problems with the BBC or reddit or anybody else shouting this from the rooftops. All of the various UK services running covert agents and informers will want anybody they approach to know that their identity will never be revealed by those services, in any circumstance whatsoever, including when it is already public knowledge.
Boys running boys who were actually being run by other boys who were secretly working for a fourth set of boys who were meant to have oversight over the second set of boys but a fifth previously unknown set of boys prevented this so the original boys went apeshit. Something like that anyway.
Spy’s and murderous terrorists in being a bit devious shocker.
Shit. It was a dirty war alright. I see no positive outcome in raking this all up now.
Uvf, uda, RUC, udr, fru, mrf, etc all colliding terrorist scumbags.
The british government knew they were up to their necks in murder and did nothing about it.
Id be a bit worried if MI5 didn’t try to cover up there being a spy.
40 millon pounds to say nothing about anything. Who trousers all this money ?
A certain subset still peddle the romance that these characters were noble warriors, when his IRA comrades not only tolerated torture and murder but treated it as an in-house perk of The Cause. We are now meant to politely exfoliate those sordid details and present the British state as the wicked puppeteer. It is not just tacky, it is intellectually pathetic.
Let us not pretend the victims were accidental collateral damage. Vulnerable people, including widows and disabled children, were abducted and killed, usually after some laughably trumped-up accusation. A movement that claimed to defend its community instead fed on the most defenceless within it. That is not liberation. That is predation.
Meanwhile, the robed Republican legal corps strides around performing moral outrage over Omagh, while neatly omitting any reference to the pathological self-delusion fermenting at home. Question them and you risked disappearing. Quite the progressive utopia.
And as for Omagh. A device of grotesque scale was parked in a bustling street on a Saturday, accompanied by deliberately misleading information designed to push and hem ordinary people into the immediate surrounding vicinity of the concealed 500lbs bomb. Families obliterated in seconds, then wrapped in a libertarian slogan and sold as resistance. The cynicism is breathtaking.
There is a psychological rupture here, a refusal to recognise wrongdoing so extreme it begins to feel clinical. Not quite psychopathy perhaps, although morally we are browsing the same aisle.
Behind it all was a chain of command, a whole grisly hierarchy happy to let Stakeknife carve out his dominion while terrified communities learned what internal security really meant. They did not merely fail to stop him, they consecrated him.
British intelligence often did not need to interfere. They simply observed an organisation perfectly capable of destroying itself, and hell-bent on doing so with theatrical enthusiasm. [Later revelations](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/05/stakeknife-informant-freddie-scappaticci-pleads-guilty-to-pornography-charges)about the creature concerned re sadistic and abusive material featuring childten and animals were not aberrations, they were the underside of a violent cult that preferred to flatter itself as a national liberation movement.
So who holds responsibility. The men who empowered him, shielded him, unleashed him, and left entire communities traumatised for decades. Apparently not. Apparently responsibility is a burden reserved for London, while local tyrants are recast as tragic victims of imperial misbehaviour.
Who’s responsible for his grotesque carousel of torture, murder and cruelty. To the members of the communities who turned a blind eye and buoyed him .. [……..](https://youtu.be/NlyP5Luf3AM?si=ktPPtxEPgk7VMCQe&t=222)
The dogs in the street knew that would happen
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