Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Alfredo Scappatici aka STAKEKNIFE spirited out of belfast

told you so..... | 11.05.2003 20:59

Alfredo Scappatici is the Brit army FRU agent stakeknife who penetrated the IRA GCHQ, according to the Sunday People, Sunday Mirror and other newspapers today. Alfredo was snatched from his home in the early hours of friday morning by his colleagues in the Brit army Force research unit L branch and whisked away to safety out of Northern Ireland after speculation by journalists and others pinpointed his identity.

Alfredo Scappatici was a senior member of the IRA and the leader of a ruthless IRA assasination squad head of the IRA's internal security unit charged with interrogating and murdering alledged security force informants, but Alfredo Scappatici led a double life as he was also top brit army FRU agent Stakeknife, 'the jewel in brit intelligence services crown' supplying brit army intelligence with info about the IRA's mainland and european activities. Alfredo Scappatici probably not his real name, volunteered to join the brit army in his teens. Now in his mid 40's, he would have joined the brit army in the early 1970's, probably trained in mainland britain with other brit squaddies. Was Stakeknife involved in the abduction, interrogation and murder of former protestant mother of 10 Jean McConville?, it is possible that the dying brit squaddie, Jean McConville attended to in the middle of Divis republican heartland recognised Stakeknife amongst the local crowd?. Who knows the answer to this question, but what we do know, is that stakeknife as IRA man Alfredo Scappatici was involved in the targeting, sadistic interrogation and murder of others whom he wrongly or rightly suspected of being security force informants for over 25 years. Former FRU colleagues of Stakeknife believe he oversaw the interrogation and execution of other FRU agents such as Gregory Burns, Aidan Starrs and John Dignam in june 1982. John Stevens revealed that FRU were able to steer murder gangs from the UDA and IRA away from their prize agent Stakeknife by shifting suspicion onto other innocent victims. Scappatici was paid £60,000 a year by the brit army, with innocent civillians and also other FRU agents being sacrificed to protect his identity.
A group of about 11 ex brit army agents who also led double lives taking part in bombings and shootings so as to not blow their covers as brit army spies are campaigning to win acknowledgement for their work as brit army spies and compensation from their MOD employers. The group feels the MOD has abandoned them, using and abusing them, then spitting them out. Their spokesperson Willie Carlin said they had been left out in the cold by the MOD and all fear for their lives. FRU agent Kevin Fulton who alerted his Special branch handlers about the Omagh bomb is said to be 'furious',that 'Scappatici/stakeknife was spirited away by his MOD employers without hesitation but we are left to look after ourselves'. Kevin Fulton said 'we can't work, we can't stay in one place too long and we all have to hide ourselves without help from the MOD'. The group must have known that in such hierarchial establishment as the brit military, there would also be a hierarchy of agents, some of whom the brit army valued/prized whilst others of whom the brit army thought of as disposable, just as unwitting innocent civillians caught up in this nightmare scenario were disposed of without a thought. It seems in the murky world of the brit army's dirty war, all is far from fair in love and war.

told you so.....

Comments

Hide the following 9 comments

sacrificed at the altar of Stakeknife

11.05.2003 21:34

Amongst those who were sacrificed to protect brit army agent aka Stakeknife/Alfredo Scappatici were innocent New barnsley grandfather Frances Notorantonio. Brit army intelligence on learning of the loyalist UDA's plan to target leading IRA man Scappatici through their FRU agent Brian Nelson, got their FRU agent and UDA member Brian nelson to steer the UDA hit squad away from Scappatici and towards innocent grandfather Frances notorantio. Frances notorantio's movements, schedule, layout and map/route to his house were passed on to the UDA hit squad through FRU agent Brian Nelson.

derbhla


democracy

11.05.2003 21:56

of course, if the republicans had chosen democracy instead of the armalite, none of this would have been necessary.

scpetic


But because...

12.05.2003 09:03

But because the republicans refused to subject themselves to colonial rule ("democracy"), that was what happened to an innocent grandfather...

Fascism and septic supporters of fascism speak well of themselves.

Antiseptic


colonial rule

12.05.2003 09:34

N Ireland is no more under 'colonial rule' than is England, Wales or Scotland. Unfortunately, the majority of the people who live there want to be part of the United Kingdom - that's called democracy.

Should N. Ireland be part of Eire? Well, should E Timor be part of Indonesia? Should Bangladesh be part of Pakistan? SHould Tibet be part of China?

sceptic


Sceptic is full of shit

12.05.2003 16:12

I know I shouldn't rise to it but sceptic has pissed me off with his smug bullshit.

Lets leave aside the fact that sceptic - or should that be fascist? - doesn't seem to have a problem with a "democratic" state arranging for innocent people to be assasinated in order to maintain the cover of their secret agents.

I'm curious as to how sceptic justifies describing Northern Ireland as democratic. After all the boundaries of Northern Ireland were defined specifically with the purpose of creating a territory which was as large as possible while retaining a Unionist majority. To describe this as democracy, is like describing Sceptic and one of his mates kidnapping you and then outvoting you 2 to 1 on whether or not to release you, as democracy. As if this wasn't enough Northern Ireland has a proud tradition of state sponsored gerrymandering and vote rigging. At the start of the troubles votes in local elections were linked to property ownership. This left multiple property owners (predominantly Protestant) significantly more infranchised than say large family tennants (predominantly Catholics). By a combination of these means Derry, the 2nd largest city in NI with a 2/3 Catholic majority, was controlled by a Unionist council. Control of the local government led to control of housing, employment....... The Northern Ireland Parliament at Stormont was governed by the same party for over 50 years.

I also like the way he implies that it was Republicans who brought violence into Irish politics. Perhaps it is more likely that the powers that colonised Ireland, introduced the plantations, criminalised the native language and culture and oversaw the net export of food during periods of famine as the agressors.

Without getting excessively bogged down in Irish history, Sceptic might be interested in learning that Provisional IRA emerged out of the troubles rather than instigating them. After the troubles began the Republican community experienced the democracy of detention without trial and trials without jurys, not to mention strip searching and shoot to kill.

You don't have to be an appologist for Republican violence to realise that you can't put the cart before the horse in explaining the roots of the troubles in Northern Ireland. It is interesting that Sceptic isn't concerned in the least by the complicity of the British State in the, deliberate murder of civilians.

!
mail e-mail: !
- Homepage: !


an artificial game

12.05.2003 17:24

Sceptic has nothing to offer but negative criticism of other contrbutors. He's well bought into the pletora of bullshit.
The high levels of infiltration into both the Republican and Unionist paramilitaries being revealed by the Stevens inquiry,which was no doubt intended to cover up rather than expose, is tending to confirm the conspiracy 'nuts' long-held contention that the Irish struggle has been artificially maintained, promulgated and prolonged by the manipulation of the opposame sides, by their embedded agents, in order to promote trauma, fear and spectacle for the British and Irish public,while the slow dismantling of the welfare state and of the protection of civil liberties went through their intital stages of experimentation, and British troops were able to practice their skills fighting guerrilla armies in the streets.
In expectation that troops are going to have to fight the mainland populace, as they respond to the crackdown that is coming (and has come to refugees and asylum seekers),as the New World Order gradually enforces its power.

dh


history

12.05.2003 17:24

History is history. We have to live in the present. Gerrymandering no longer exists in N Ireland today. Indeed, if anything it operates in reverse: the Nationalists are guaranteed seats in the N Ireland Government - hence McGuinness as Education Minister.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the past - and there are many on both sides - we have to live with what we have now. At the present there are a large number of people [in excess of 1 million] who do not want to be part of the Republic. And there are a large number of people [tho a smaller number] who do. Result: impasse - unless both sides are prepared to make concessions. WHich they have done in the present N Ireland assembly. If both sides could be persuaded to abstain from violence [including punishment beatings and exiles], then a working community could be possible.

Yes, I can well imagine that innocent people died. And while the UK Government might have been aware of it, it wasn't actually the Government who killed these people, was it?

sceptic


Scappatici's version

16.12.2005 16:07

Shouldn't this article make it clear that Scappatici denies that he was Stakeknife?

Bemused


Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech