Latest posts tagged with #Scappaticci on Bluesky
“The fact that he had not found himself in a body bag, lying on a border road like many of his victims, may have given him a sense of invincibility because he continued to live quite openly in Republican West Belfast” - Seamus McKearney #IRA #Scappaticci #SinnFéin #Brits #Informer
“The reality was that Scappaticci was no longer at the heart of the IRA and was now crestfallen. Where he went next was another story . . . “ - Seamus Kearney #IRA #Scappaticci #Informer
“The IRA is my home, the Battalion my family. I don't crave love from a woman's hug, a soldier's life is all I need” - Seamus Kearney #IRA #FRU #RUC #Scappaticci #Tout
“the fingerprint was that of Freddie Scappaticci and that fingerprint would come back to haunt him until his dying day” - Seamus Kearney #IRA #British #Spies #Tout #Scappaticci
“On his return to Belfast Joe Fenton was arrested by the Internal Security Unit on the 24th February 1989 and taken to a house in the Lenadoon area of West Belfast” - Seamus Kearney #IRA #ISU #Fenton #Scappaticci #BrendanHughes
“The Internal Security Unit ( ISU) had become a refined killing machine by 1986, with the original team of British agents still firmly in place” - Seamus Kearney #IRA #Scappaticci #Marley #Notarantonio
Seamus Kearney shares the story of how his brother Michael was falsely accused of being an informant and executed on the watch of British agent Freddie Scappaticci otherwise known as “Stakeknife” #IRA #MichaelKearney #Stakeknife #Scappaticci
Seamus Kearney - Stakeknife the rise and fall act one #IRA #Scappaticci #Spy #RUC #BA
#BBC interviewed #stakeknife years ago. Interviewer asked him how do you live undercover. #Scappaticci answer was chilling. He explained he wasn't undercover. He was a terrorist who told handler what he did, being an agent wouldn't stop him being a terrorist & doing what he had to do.
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