The Spy Who Got Away with MURDER - STAKEKNIFE - Spotlight Investigates

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    The Spy Who Got Away with MURDER - STAKEKNIFE - Spotlight Investigates
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  • @eamondoherty2383
    @eamondoherty2383 Год назад +79

    the great untold story of the troubles is the extent MI5 played a role in the deaths of so many Irish people......

    • @powerbite92
      @powerbite92 Год назад +12

      MI5 and MI6 - Played both sides.

    • @quack437
      @quack437 Год назад +8

      ​@@powerbite92 and that is an absolute fact

    • @pfc4156
      @pfc4156 Год назад +9

      And the IRA army Council.......

    • @Matt-Durham
      @Matt-Durham Год назад +7

      So did the IRA and other paramilitaries

    • @SmokingJoe62
      @SmokingJoe62 Год назад +6

      ‘Untold story’? MI5’s involvement is one of the most reported stories of the entire conflict

  • @seamus9750
    @seamus9750 Год назад +12

    The grim reaper catches up with them all in the end

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 7 месяцев назад

      Being sent into the arms of Spake Knife was a death sentence for any other people who were informing to the British (his bosses, too).

    • @janetwebster5099
      @janetwebster5099 2 месяца назад

      Yes and no - the main point was to MISLEAD the IRA into thinking touts were trustworthy and vica versa ​@@louise_rose

  • @JamesMullin-bc5mt
    @JamesMullin-bc5mt Год назад +18

    My dad was a squadron leader in the RAF and after he worked for British airways and Keys air in derry. The army contacted my dad in the 70's and told him to fly to a disused airstrip in Oban near Loch Lomand where he was to pick up stakeknife and bring him back to Eglinton airport. not a word was said and my dad only told me this after Freddies death.

  • @EamonCoyle
    @EamonCoyle Год назад +14

    It's touts, touting on tout's who are covering up tout's. My father got a spell in castlereagh because of one who turned round and said he was lying, didn't stop the torture in a holding cell !!

    • @sword-and-shield
      @sword-and-shield 7 месяцев назад

      Sir, I am just an American trying to learn about the Troubles from this channel, but have a couple hard questions I prefer were answered by someone who lived it. If your not interested I completely understand, it was just after reading your post I knew you had lived it. Respect, either way you decide.

    • @EamonCoyle
      @EamonCoyle 7 месяцев назад

      @@sword-and-shield Depends what you ask I suppose my friend, but if I can help I will....

    • @sword-and-shield
      @sword-and-shield 7 месяцев назад

      @@EamonCoyle Outstanding sir, I hope my ignorance doesn't flame, and I apologize ahead if it does. As a preliminary, I lean towards the side of the Republicans, and my questions seek more to verify potential misunderstandings from my limited exposure so far.
      1. Would I be wrong in assuming that in the end the Brit's just wanted to occupy and prevent your countries independence just based from fear of potential future threats being so close to them? I get that the North wanted them there, but its seems like it was just an excuse to occupy and prevent your country from deciding on your own through a voting process and becoming independent.
      2. After seeing I Dolours, recently and realizing there where rats even back to 73. Also with the vid above. It seems so much destruction to the movement was from rats, and at the highest level. Why do think the IRA didn't allow the cells to loosen up, or groups to run more separated, allowing them to KNOW who they are trusting from local tight nit groups? I understand it wouldn't prevent it, but man so many rats killing the effectiveness. Again sir, respect either way.

  • @casualobserver5466
    @casualobserver5466 Год назад +7

    I served there twic ..how many young lads like me were the government prepared to have killed/ just as long as you didn’t blow his cover😡

  • @janetwebster5099
    @janetwebster5099 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank You for helping those of us living outside the UK to acess these brilliant and necessary films. 🍀💐🕷🌷☘️

  • @grahamwatts8836
    @grahamwatts8836 Год назад +10

    For the PIRA and other IRA splitter groups who really was your enemy, the security forces, and potentially the inner circle of the original IRA???? Mc Guinness and Adams may have used intelligence /stake knife in back room negotiations with the very secretive and high levels of the security forces to move things forward in the peace/political process. Rumour has it Adams passed on the details to security forces of the failed 1987 PIRA assault on the police station, apparently he did not agree with the attitude of certain members of that PIRA cell????

    • @matthew1882
      @matthew1882 Год назад +2

      @@parkgate-ub1ey that's so dirty. Using your own double agent to eliminate internal opposition.

    • @TheDocRitchie
      @TheDocRitchie 11 месяцев назад +3

      Trigg in Death In The Fields says that's not true. FR Denis Faul and Brits propagated it (p156-158).

  • @ATLmodK
    @ATLmodK Год назад +23

    It is sad that the IRA didn’t figure it out before he tortured and killed so many.

    • @loulou7963
      @loulou7963 Год назад +10

      Absolutely. I’m sure they would have dealt with him accordingly

    • @matthew1882
      @matthew1882 Год назад +5

      Even if they did figure it out, a lot of people Scapattici murdered were either informers or a threat to the army council.
      As the former-prisoner mentioned, the purpose of the ISU was to protect the interests of the Army Council and, even though he was an agent, that's exactly what Stakeknife did.

    • @powerbite92
      @powerbite92 Год назад +17

      It wasnt just Stakeknife that MI6 got to, they got to the very top and turned them. There've been videos on here where former faces have slyly suggested that the "turned" phenomenon was far more widespread than was let on.. Scapaticci is just the part of the iceberg that is visible to us, now.

    • @brendandunleavy1399
      @brendandunleavy1399 Год назад

      How much higher up the chain was infiltrated by British spooks, that's the shocking news we may waken up to one day.

    • @dominicseanmccann6300
      @dominicseanmccann6300 Год назад +7

      Be easier to say who wasn't a 'bubble'.....

  • @tdurb0
    @tdurb0 Год назад +10

    Gutted that one you tried to upload today got struck so quick. Keep up the good work 👍🏻👏🏻

  • @KimPhilby203
    @KimPhilby203 Год назад +10

    Got to give it to Brits .. Brilliant Beyond Words ...World Class Intelligence Services...

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Год назад

      I would rather say this guy represents the point where the British army and intelligence descended to the same methods, or even worse, as the IRA. And it didn't begin here - several of the people killed on Bloody Sunday in 1972 were illegally framed as terrorists and militants by the British troops.

    • @user-sj1xn7wm2b
      @user-sj1xn7wm2b 10 месяцев назад

      By colluding with loyalist death squads to have mostly innocent Irish Catholics murdered...!! It was a Dirty war and the brits are known the world over for their dirty tactics and history shows how they raped , burned , bombed and pillaged everywhere they went for their Imperialism and Colonialism all over the world !!

  • @ROC14088
    @ROC14088 Год назад +7

    How many people did the English tell scap they talked

  • @matthew1882
    @matthew1882 Год назад +20

    And now Scapp and McGuiness are both gone and the truth of Stakeknife is likely buried alongside them.

    • @matthew1882
      @matthew1882 Год назад +11

      ​@powerbite92 didn't Mi5 save him from Loyalist gunmen in late-1980s? If that's not an asset....

    • @ATLmodK
      @ATLmodK Год назад

      Nothing like conspiracy theories to make people think they actually know something

    • @seanheeney4517
      @seanheeney4517 Год назад +5

      ​@@powerbite92 makes sense , the British government wants rid of Northern Ireland

    • @DPK12
      @DPK12 Год назад +5

      @@powerbite92 evidence ?

    • @pjnolan7989
      @pjnolan7989 Год назад +4

      ​@@powerbite92
      That's partly because NI is the biggest expense to the UK.
      Between Unemployment, lack of outside investment, paying Benefits, HSE, etc it's just dead weight.
      Plus the whole non-Border issue.
      It costs them a fortune.
      But realistically as much as most of us in the Republic would love a united Ireland, we couldn't afford it either.
      Tbh if it came to a Referendum we'd vote for a united Ireland out of pride more than anything. The economics are an entirely different matter.

  • @neildutton8077
    @neildutton8077 Год назад +5

    Good solid Irish name...lol

  • @friotaiocht101
    @friotaiocht101 Год назад +5

    I never understood how the PIRA made an Italian or half Italian head of an internal unit... so what if he was from the Markets area of Belfast...

    • @trickstick84
      @trickstick84 8 месяцев назад

      Anyone could apply to join the IRA. Their ethnicity was not considered relevant. There were many Italian families in Belfast, and more than one had a family history of joining the IRA - basically because of a hatred of Protestants. It's also a little-discussed fact that many well-known IRA people had some Protestant ancestors - "Adams" is not exactly a Gaelic name, is it?

    • @TheNelster72
      @TheNelster72 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@trickstick84Fine, but he still doesn't have Irish heritage and therefore ancestoral connections.

    • @kieransavage100
      @kieransavage100 5 месяцев назад

      Went to Christian Brothers school with Scapo,as we called him.

    • @friotaiocht101
      @friotaiocht101 5 месяцев назад

      @@trickstick84 This is true but I've always said this it's one thing to become disillusioned with war & grow tired of the killing but when you become a tout & comrades die as a result that is just unforgivable....

  • @cheapy2006
    @cheapy2006 Год назад +9

    I'd say Scap got two behind the ear courtesy of his handlers, not too long after he went into hiding.

    • @rassawhelan6045
      @rassawhelan6045 Год назад +3

      before or after the bestiality charge

    • @cheapy2006
      @cheapy2006 Год назад

      Touchée

    • @ATLmodK
      @ATLmodK 11 месяцев назад

      No evidence, again, that he died of gunshot wounds

    • @jacquiewalton1355
      @jacquiewalton1355 6 месяцев назад

      @@ATLmodK Freddie Scappaticci, the man widely identified as the army’s long serving informer inside the IRA, has admitted two counts of possessing extreme pornography.
      Scappaticci, 72, who has been widely identified as Agent Stakeknife, appeared briefly at Westminster magistrates court in central London on Wednesday morning to admit the charges.
      He spoke only to enter his pleas to the charges. The chief magistrate, Emma Arbuthnot, sentenced him to three months in custody, suspended for 12 months.
      The court heard the charges related to at least 329 images, including bestiality.

  • @michaelmulligan0
    @michaelmulligan0 Год назад +6

    2 questions
    Were all those he was involved in the deaths of members of the PIRA ?
    Were any of them actual agents?

    • @fintonmainz7845
      @fintonmainz7845 10 месяцев назад

      The people he murdered were alleged to be informers. Many/most of these wouldn't h ave been provos.

    • @trickstick84
      @trickstick84 8 месяцев назад

      So far as any outsider can tell, many of those he killed were informers, but some were not.

    • @fintonmainz7845
      @fintonmainz7845 8 месяцев назад

      @@trickstick84 I'm sure you're right. The fact is nobody really knows or will ever know

  • @melissabyrne8749
    @melissabyrne8749 Год назад +2

    Thanks for sharing, your busy thanks again

  • @ericpowell194
    @ericpowell194 6 месяцев назад +1

    This bastard was a well known gambler when he worked at the building trade. He was a straight forward informer well. Paid by the British

  • @zeddyteddy3729
    @zeddyteddy3729 Год назад +7

    Thank you Mr. Scappaticci for your loyal service to King and Country. Lest we forget 🇬🇧

    • @user-bf6hd6hu1m
      @user-bf6hd6hu1m Год назад

      Don't you know that spies and informers are the scum of the earth. But then again, such people are worthy to serve the interests of the British crown, being all villains together. Scappaticci was a whore for the pimps of the British establishment, who will use any scumbag to do their dirty work. All the same, Ireland WILL one day be entirely free of British rule.

    • @Irishtinian494
      @Irishtinian494 Год назад

      Your kingdom family are a bunch of raving child molesters

    • @jacquiewalton1355
      @jacquiewalton1355 6 месяцев назад

      Freddie Scappaticci, the man widely identified as the army’s long serving informer inside the IRA, has admitted two counts of possessing extreme pornography.
      Scappaticci, 72, who has been widely identified as Agent Stakeknife, appeared briefly at Westminster magistrates court in central London on Wednesday morning to admit the charges.
      He spoke only to enter his pleas to the charges. The chief magistrate, Emma Arbuthnot, sentenced him to three months in custody, suspended for 12 months.
      The court heard the charges related to at least 329 images, including bestiality.

  • @thepub245
    @thepub245 6 месяцев назад +1

    Never heard a republican call Northern Ireland 'Northern Ireland' before. Its usually just Ireland, the island of Ireland, the occupied 6 counties, or the North.

  • @KeithWilliamMacHendry
    @KeithWilliamMacHendry Год назад +14

    Lovely people, such lovely lives, just the type of people to unify a nation.

    • @pfc4156
      @pfc4156 Год назад +8

      Yes pillars of the community but hey michelle says there was no alternative

    • @pfc4156
      @pfc4156 Год назад

      @@KeithWilliamMacHendry eh?michelle says there was no alternative to murdering men,women and children, as well as blowing towns to bits.These are the heroes she defends , so what are you getting so excited about?

    • @patrickmorris3721
      @patrickmorris3721 Год назад

      I’d say not 😉wake up

  • @Highland_Moo
    @Highland_Moo Год назад +18

    Seems like the IRA was 99% touts 😂

    • @johnkennedy972
      @johnkennedy972 Год назад +3

      British propaganda wise up mj🇮🇪32

    • @Retroscoop
      @Retroscoop Год назад +1

      Most members of the US Communist Party probably were FBI agents too...

    • @killerbeen773
      @killerbeen773 Год назад +1

      😅😅😅

    • @Dave-hu5hr
      @Dave-hu5hr Год назад +1

      @@johnkennedy972 Sad fact of life is that everyone has their price whatever their values/beliefs.. 💷

    • @johnkennedy972
      @johnkennedy972 11 месяцев назад

      @@Dave-hu5hr not with staunch. Elite republican soldiers of Erin

  • @louise_rose
    @louise_rose Год назад

    9:02 Lord Ramsbotham's accent and way of talking are so much old-style military/upper-class English it's funny - compare the agent film dialogue samples in The Propellerheads' "Bigger?" which have made many people comment "this has got to be from some obscure 1960s agent flick, NO ONE speaks like that anymore in real life!" . Well, here at least we have an example, down to the studied hint of a lisp. : > :)

  • @user-uj4il3lv1n
    @user-uj4il3lv1n Год назад +2

    Higher than he were also mi5 isn't that right gerry

  • @PK-fk7bm
    @PK-fk7bm Год назад +4

    Is he really dead? Or is just convenient for all parties involved? 👍👊🇮🇪

    • @bananacake9289
      @bananacake9289 Год назад +1

      Good question!!! P K!
      I was wondering the exact same
      thing myself!! Wouldn’t be surprised whatsoever
      if he’s ‘holed’ up somewhere 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️I’d like some
      definitive PROOF that he IS dead 💀🤷‍♀️!!
      How does anyone really KNOW he’s gone??
      Have they ever found his rotting corpse(?)!! 😡🇬🇧

    • @powerbite92
      @powerbite92 11 месяцев назад

      @@bananacake9289 Supposedly Dennis Donaldson's death was staged.

  • @rassawhelan6045
    @rassawhelan6045 Год назад +2

    Just regurgitated information. Nothing new ... Danny Morrison was also in the interrogation house, which for some reason they leave out.. .........

  • @Irishmush
    @Irishmush 4 месяца назад

    The sandy lynch actor looked more like micheal stone.uvf British agent.

  • @louise_rose
    @louise_rose Год назад +1

    Around 13:45, the name Spike Murray is auto-subbed by RUclips as "Spank my Bob" and "Spake Money"! 😁😁

  • @harleyyoung9585
    @harleyyoung9585 Год назад +1

    Hindsite is 20 20. As long as adams kept the war going, civil rights were on the back burner

  • @nonamerequired123
    @nonamerequired123 Год назад +9

    Basically the Provos were the Irish Cosa Nostra.

    • @ATLmodK
      @ATLmodK Год назад

      The Republican paramilitaries were not the only terrorists. The Shankill butchers are the essence of terrorism along with several other Loyalist terrorist groups

    • @rassawhelan6045
      @rassawhelan6045 Год назад +6

      No not really

    • @nonamerequired123
      @nonamerequired123 Год назад +3

      @@rassawhelan6045 Yes, really. Touting is no different than Omerta.

    • @rassawhelan6045
      @rassawhelan6045 Год назад

      @@nonamerequired123 So just on the fact The Republican movement executes informers they are basically the Nostra. The Republican movement was and still is a movement for political recognition of struggle for a 32 .. Never was it a criminal enterprise like that other MOB. So again no...

    • @nonamerequired123
      @nonamerequired123 Год назад +2

      @@rassawhelan6045 Nope, just one example. And I didn't say the Republican movement was, I said the Provisional IRA was. You look at all the "paramilitaries" they pretty much operate like criminal gangs.

  • @davidandrews190
    @davidandrews190 Год назад +10

    Adams was the fucking top man 🤣 ffs

  • @harleyyoung9585
    @harleyyoung9585 Год назад +9

    Not a chance in hell, if i was on the army council, would i allow an italian, anywhere near the ira.

  • @madeljacky
    @madeljacky Год назад

    11:13 Monellan Road just before it crosses the border into Ireland, the disused dwelling house on the left is still there

  • @audree70
    @audree70 Год назад +4

    To work both sides?
    Balls.

  • @Irishtinian494
    @Irishtinian494 Год назад

    Freddy was just a small fish.

  • @khiggins185
    @khiggins185 Год назад +5

    Had Republicans caught him he would have had a very slow death.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Год назад

      Yes indeed - there are many people here in the comments field suggesting that he was protected by some turned guy/s still higher up though.
      At the time, Belfast was easily the most dangerous town in the UK.
      I saw this report on the Beeb two weeks ago, it's horribly fascinating...could have been straight out of a John Le Carré novel. The guy must have had balls of steel and some real acting skills, but I feel zero admiration for him.

    • @Dave-hu5hr
      @Dave-hu5hr Год назад

      They knew who he was but they also knew that he knew who they was etc etc..
      🗡🗡

  • @garymcbain2967
    @garymcbain2967 Год назад +7

    Fucking Grass.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪☘💯

  • @johnkennedy972
    @johnkennedy972 Год назад +1

    He wouldn’t have got away had I been born during the troubles a wouldn’t care how high up a would have seen his position was more a case to execute him rot in hell scap🇮🇪32

  • @caolanmcmanus1726
    @caolanmcmanus1726 9 месяцев назад

    How was he not found out he shud of been assinated for what he done

  • @johnkennedy972
    @johnkennedy972 Год назад +1

    See that bbc copyright was that anything to do with Peter Taylor trouble land a day in ni

    • @ATroubledLand
      @ATroubledLand  Год назад +2

      No John though some of his are blocked also. It was to do with Once upon a time in NI.. Currently uploading to Rumble, search for ATroubledLand

    • @johnkennedy972
      @johnkennedy972 Год назад +1

      @@ATroubledLand great channel best I’ve seen about the troubles keep up the good work

  • @topcheese5671
    @topcheese5671 6 месяцев назад

    Freddie said he never left Northern Ireland haha well done big lad call it what it is, not a true republican

  • @CharlieEverton-mv7yq
    @CharlieEverton-mv7yq 9 месяцев назад

    The places this steak knife head went

  • @audree70
    @audree70 Год назад +10

    Steak knife.
    Love that guy
    He had some real balls.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Год назад +4

      Certainly must have been an ice cold man with balls of steel, I wouldn't say he was admirable though. He regularly had other British agents and informants murdered to protect his cover, and sometimes killed them himself.

    • @Irishtinian494
      @Irishtinian494 Год назад

      So had your ma

  • @bpfromowc
    @bpfromowc Год назад

    When does this begin ?

  • @killerbeen773
    @killerbeen773 Год назад

    Wow the nerve of this Rat!

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Год назад

      This is straight out of John le Carré - I would have loved to hear him commenting on this case (the outlines have been known for around twenty years).

  • @lewismorgan839
    @lewismorgan839 Год назад

    Steak knife was killed

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Год назад +1

      stabbed with a steak knife, no doubt :)

  • @user-wq3qf7jg9i
    @user-wq3qf7jg9i 10 месяцев назад

    Grassssssssss

  • @CharlieEverton-mv7yq
    @CharlieEverton-mv7yq 9 месяцев назад

    Hed probably would laugh at your accent

  • @Towmas
    @Towmas 10 месяцев назад

    Describing getting a confession and saying ‘they’ no freddy use pronoun ‘I’ ya basturd