Freddie Scappaticci, better known by his codename Stakeknife, headed the nutting squad - the IRA s notorious internal security unit charged with rooting out suspected informers.
When his identity emerged in 2003, it seemed inconceivable that the British government could have planted a mole deep in the heart of the IRA s command structure for more than two decades.
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