{"id":355,"date":"2012-04-24T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=355"},"modified":"2012-05-03T19:45:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:45:59","slug":"decisions-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Decisions..Decisions…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I t has emerged recently that the former Commander\"\"<\/a>of UK Land Forces Sir John Wilsey, confirmed that Freddie Scappiticci was indeed working for British Intelligence before he was unmasked in 2003.\u00a0 Sir John was duped into giving up this information when he received a telephone call from whistleblower Ian Hurst who was masquerading as a Channel Four researcher working under the name of Jeremy Chiles.\u00a0 He revealed that Scap had been recruited as far back as 1976 and such was his importance that he was considered to be a \u201cGolden Egg \u201cby his controllers.<\/p>\n

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And such was his usefulness that the RUC Special Branch tried unsuccessfully to poach him from their erstwhile allies.\u00a0 Special Branch always did know a gooddeal when they seen one!!<\/p>\n

This attempted move came after the setting up in 1984 of the FRU\u2014Force Research Unit\u2014which Freddie was connected to\u2014along with his handler, a soldier called Peter Jones. \u00a0Scappiticci was less than keen to assist the Special Branch\u2014according to Sir John, who met him more than once\u2013 because he considered the RUC to be a sectarian force.\u00a0 Well, I suppose it is comforting to know that the bold Fred, through all his years as a senior IRA figure\u2014when he was not only interned but ran one of the Cages\u2014throughout his time as the most senior figure of the IRA\u2019s so called Nutting Squad\u2014and after his \u201cturning\u201d in the mid seventies\u2014that he was never sectarian.\u00a0 And the fact that the 30 odd alleged informers who Freddie allowed to be killed to protect himself were all Catholics, is surely proof of this.<\/p>\n

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