Bet you all thought Stake/Steak-Knife was a name for the history books.
Something for generations to come to discuss and debate.
Who today remembers the arch-IRA traitor,
the “Jewel in the Crown” of the RUC and British Army in Northern Ireland?
Young people living today in Northern Ireland may not even have heard of him.
Older people shudder at the name of Stake-Knife.
Yet we have just learned that 72-year-old Alfredo (Fred) Scappaticci, allegedly Stake-Knife despite his denials, has just been arrested in an unknown location in England. And his estranged wife’s house was raided.
Scappaticci has been living in hiding since it was rumoured he worked as a British spy for 25 years even though he claimed he was a veteran Republican from West Belfast.
Detectives are interviewing him about 18 deaths in Troubles and
“in connection with the investigation into allegations of murder, kidnap and torture”.
He is said to have been involved in up to 50 deaths dating back to the 1970s.
He reputedly led the republican organisation’s “nutting squad”, an internal security unit which brutally interrogated and murdered suspected spies during the Troubles.
What were the “nutting squad’s” duties?
They were responsible for detecting informers or agents inside and outside the PIRA.
They interviewed and approved everyone who applied to join the PIRA.
They investigated operations that went wrong and arms dumps that were discovered by the police and army.
They knew all about whoever was involved in whatever, what their roles were and what they did afterwards.
They debriefed every volunteer who was arrested, and those charged or remanded in prison custody
Volunteers would have revealed to them everything that happened.
Query: Are they burning Scappaticci to protect Steak Knife?
Scappiticci is accused of being Stake-knife, the double agent who worked for British security forces while overseeing the murder of informers within the Republican Movement.
And murdered innocent people to save his own skin and avoid being “outed” as a British agent.
Yet he is said to have attended his 98-year-old father’s funeral in west Belfast last year.
People who said they saw him described him as looking fit and relaxed.
Queries: How many people, not just IRA members, were murdered to preserve Stake-knife’s cover or to enable British intelligence to advance an agenda?
How many RUC/UDR/British Army/Prison Warder families would react with horror at the IRA operations that were allowed to go ahead targeting them and/or their relatives?
How many Unionists would start asking questions about the state they swear loyalty to, knowing IRA operations went ahead unhindered?
You can read all about what is known/rumoured/alleged/gossiped/surmised about Scappiticci’s recruitment and motivations to serve the British in Northern Ireland here
https://eurofree3.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/the-dirty-war-2/
Refs and Pics
https://quotefancy.com/quote/853537/Lord-Acton-The-mills-of-God-grind-slowly
https://deborahthelwell.wordpress.com/2014/08/
https:/http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/01/31/news/freddie-scappaticci-arrested-by-operation-kenova-detectives-1245726/
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/30/ira-informer-stakeknife-arrested-in-
Scappaticci Arrested: The Questions That Follow…..
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