fromwww.theguardian.com
18 hours agoBritain's golden egg': how IRA agent Freddie Scappaticci was protected to the end
He was instead, as a final report by Operation Kenova effectively revealed without officially doing so on Tuesday, for a long time Britain's most valuable spy inside the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, once described by an army general as the golden egg of the intelligence services. More pertinently to the torment of those related to his victims, he was a sadistic murderer who had been in the pay of the British state.
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