{"id":3704,"date":"2016-06-03T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T08:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2016-06-03T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T08:16:23","slug":"3704","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=3704","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Will Stakeknife bring the house down?<\/h1>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/eamonnmallie.com\/author\/brian-rowan\/\" rel=\"author\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Brian Rowan<\/span><\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/eamonnmallie.com\/2016\/06\/will-stakeknife-bring-the-house-down\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">23 hours ago <\/span><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">June 2, 2016<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --> <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eamonnmallie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_4070.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/eamonnmallie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_4070.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By this time next week we should know the shape of the Stakeknife investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Already, there has been one delay in the announcement. It had been expected today (Thursday June 2).<br \/>\nThe waiting is for the new political members of the Policing Board to be in place.<br \/>\nThose nominations have now been made:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DUP 4 \u2013 Nelson McCausland, Brenda Hale, Joanne Bunting and Keith Buchanan.<\/li>\n<li>Sinn Fein 3 \u2013 Gerry Kelly, Raymond McCartney and Jennifer McCann.<\/li>\n<li>UUP \u2013 Ross Hussey.<\/li>\n<li>SDLP \u2013 Nichola Mallon.<\/li>\n<li>Alliance \u2013 Stephen Farry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><!--more--><\/div>\n<p>So, the formal announcement of the Stakeknife investigation is now expected to happen at the Board on June 9.<br \/>\nStakeknife was an agent codename \u2013 described as the Army\u2019s \u201cgolden egg\u201d \u2013 operating inside what the IRA called its internal security department.<\/p>\n<p>Part of its role was the culling of agents, finding them and then interrogation, torture and execution. Bodies were dumped at roadsides and on country lanes.<\/p>\n<p>The Bedfordshire Chief Constable Jon Boutcher is expected to lead the police investigation which will focus on a series of IRA killings (the number could stretch beyond 50) and what was known inside the intelligence agencies \u2013 military, Special Branch and the British Security Service MI5.<\/p>\n<p>Given its role, the investigation will also look inside that world that the IRA described as internal security, its activities and at those operating alongside Stakeknife.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, the Belfast republican Freddie Scappaticci fled Belfast denying he was the agent.<br \/>\nThat denial was dismissed by others.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief conversation I had with him at the time he said his \u201cinvolvement\u201d with the republican movement had ended 13 years earlier \u2013 meaning 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Others believe his \u201cinvolvement\u201d stretches beyond then.<\/p>\n<p>Stakeknife\u2019s information could bring the roof down.<\/p>\n<p>Think of his role inside the IRA. An Agent interrogating other agents.<\/p>\n<p>What did he tell his handlers? When did he tell them? How was that information shared across the intelligence agencies?<\/p>\n<p>It is no secret what happened inside IRA internal security. Its purpose \u2013 what happened to those identified as informers.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is what Stakeknife knew and knows about the IRA \u2013 its leadership, the names, the orders, the actions.<\/p>\n<p>This case is when the dirty war becomes filthy.<\/p>\n<p>We wait now for the detail of the investigation \u2013 the terms of reference, the time frame, how it reports.<\/p>\n<p>On the agent role of Stakeknife, what is the information trail that has been left behind? What tracks have been covered? What access will the investigation team be given? What about the National Security card? When will it be played?<\/p>\n<p>What was meant by that term \u201cgolden egg\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Other investigations involving other cases have been down similar roads \u2013 Stalker, Sampson, Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>We all know how long they took, the obstacles they faced, the spaghetti junction that is National Security.<\/p>\n<p>We are at the beginning of something \u2013 nowhere near the end.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" ><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\"); var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_counters_lang=\"en_US\";var hupso_title_t=\"\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Stakeknife bring the house down? Brian Rowan \/ 23 hours ago June 2, 2016 By this time next week we should know the shape of the Stakeknife investigation. Already, there has been one delay in the announcement. 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