Tag: Smithwick

• Scappaticci’s Dublin Payday.

  

  ‘He was the Golden Egg, something that was very important to the Army. We were terribly cagey about Fred’  – General Sir John Wilsey ex GOC N.I 2012. Jon Boutcher’s first report for Operation Kenova, an investigation into an agent called Stakeknife or Steaknife, now known to be the late Freddie Scappaticci, has passed the security…

  Covert History Ireland

  13 April 2023

  MI5, RUC, Scappaticci, Freddie, Smithwick Tribunal

  Deirdre Younge, Freddie Scappaticci, mi5, Operation Kenova, RUC, Smithwick, Smithwick Tribunal

• The Spy in Leinster House.

  

  1. The British agent in Leinster House. The Joint Support Group (JSG) ran British agents in the Republic of Ireland for British military and civilian intelligence agencies during the Troubles. A former British military intelligence agent known by the pseudonym, Sam Rosenfeld, has alleged that a senior Irish government figure has served as an agent…

  Covert History Ireland

  22 December 2022

  British Army, MI5

  Arms Crisis, BND, Charles Haughey, Charlie Flanagan, Chinook, CIA, Craig Smellie, Drew Harris, G2, Garret FitzGerald, IRD, Irish Times, Jack Lynch, JIC, John Moore, John Peck, Joint Support Group, Leo Varadkar, mi6, Neil Blaney, Peter Keeley, PSNI, RUC, Sam Rosenfeld, SDECE, Smithwick, Virgil Randolph III