Post by borgr0 on Aug 29, 2024 17:21:34 GMT
MI5 was aware that the British agent known as Stakeknife was recruited around 20 years before a former head of the spy agency has claimed it was told.
Former MI5 Director General Eliza Manningham-Buller claimed earlier this year her organisation only became aware of the agent’s status after it was asked to resettle him, which is thought to have been around 2003.
However, it is understood the organisaiton, which is also known as The Security Service, knew about Stakeknife, Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, in the early 1980′s – two decades before the former MI5 chief claimed the organisation was made aware.
A former commander with the IRA’s Internal Security Unit (ISU), Scappaticci has been linked to the murder of several people.
Former MI5 Director General Eliza Manningham-Buller claimed earlier this year her organisation only became aware of the agent’s status after it was asked to resettle him, which is thought to have been around 2003.
However, it is understood the organisaiton, which is also known as The Security Service, knew about Stakeknife, Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, in the early 1980′s – two decades before the former MI5 chief claimed the organisation was made aware.
A former commander with the IRA’s Internal Security Unit (ISU), Scappaticci has been linked to the murder of several people.
Irish News
Never forget, this is the same "security" agency that tried to push this:
British intelligence plotted a massacre at Catholic school (Belfast Telegraph)
A former RUC officer has made shocking claims that British military intelligence initiated a plan to carry out a massacre at a Catholic primary school in Co Armagh in the 1970s.
John Weir was a self-confessed member of the UVF's notorious Glenanne Gang.
The terror gang, which included members of the security forces, was linked to 120 murders, including the attack on the Miami Showband in 1975 in which two UDR men were killed when the bomb they were planting on the group's bus blew up prematurely.
Weir made the comments in new documentary Unquiet Graves: The Story Of The Glenanne Gang, which premieres in Belfast tomorrow.
"The plan was to shoot up a school in Belleeks," he said, which meant the murder of young children and teachers.
He said this was intended as retaliation for the Kingsmill massacre of January 1976 in which 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA.
John Weir was a self-confessed member of the UVF's notorious Glenanne Gang.
The terror gang, which included members of the security forces, was linked to 120 murders, including the attack on the Miami Showband in 1975 in which two UDR men were killed when the bomb they were planting on the group's bus blew up prematurely.
Weir made the comments in new documentary Unquiet Graves: The Story Of The Glenanne Gang, which premieres in Belfast tomorrow.
"The plan was to shoot up a school in Belleeks," he said, which meant the murder of young children and teachers.
He said this was intended as retaliation for the Kingsmill massacre of January 1976 in which 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA.