The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War.<\/p>\n
In this sensational expos\u00e9 of British Intelligence\u2019s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Richard O\u2019Rawe delivers the most definitive account yet of the Troubles\u2019 most enigmatic, notorious and sinister figure, Freddie Scappaticci.<\/p>\n
Codenamed Stakeknife, from the late 1970s through to his eventual exposure in 2003 he was the \u2018jewel in the crown\u2019 of a British infiltration system designed to cause mayhem and chaos in the IRA\u2019s military operations. O\u2019Rawe gained unprecedented access to Scappaticci\u2019s former comrades, who reveal extraordinary details of the inner workings of the IRA\u2019s Internal Security Unit. Headed by Scappaticci, this secretive group was known locally as the \u2018Nutting Squad\u2019 owing to its fearsome reputation for the abduction, interrogation, torture and execution of volunteers suspected of working for the British or the RUC. The political scandal at the heart of this story is that Scappaticci\u2019s intelligence handlers were aware of almost every abduction and execution he carried out prior to it taking place; a scandal that became the subject of the British government sponsored inquiry, Operation Kenova.<\/p>\n
In this compelling and extraordinary story of state-sanctioned murder and extreme moral ambiguity in the overriding quest for the protection of \u2018national security\u2019, the truth is truly stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n
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