The BBC is reporting that ‘Stake-Knife’ the highest level British Army Intelligence agent in the provisional IRA, has died in his 70s. No details of the cause of death nor any other background information was provided.
Stake-knife, real name Scappaticcii, became head of the IRA’s internal ‘nutting squad’ whose role it was to identify and deal with British spies in the IRA. Scappaticci was responsible for the deaths of many IRA members, many by their own hands, fooled by Scappaticci into believing they were British moles.