Stakeknife report finds army’s top agent’s links to murder and torture and calls for government and IRA to apologise
More lives were lost than saved because of the activities of a man alleged to have been the highest-ranking British intelligence agent in the IRA during the Northern Ireland Troubles, according to a seven-year investigation into his activities.
The Kenova report published on Friday finds that the agent Stakeknife saved “between high single figures and low double figures” lives but “nowhere near hundreds [as] sometimes claimed”.
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