Steakknife (sometimes written as Steak knife or incorrectly as Stakeknife[1] (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/05/15/do1501.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/05/15/ixopinion.html)) 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 BritishForce Research Unit. Reports claim that Steakknife has been working for the British for 25 years.
Steakknife had his own dedicated handlers and agents and he was important enough that MI5 set up an office dedicated solely to him. Rumours suggested that Steakknife was being paid at least 80,000 pounds a year.
Serious allegations have emerged to the effect that innocent lives were sacrificed to protect Steakknife's identity.
On May 11, 2003, several newspapers named Freddie Scappaticci as Steakknife. Scappaticci denies the claims.
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.
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.
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