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Stakeknife investigation: PPS decides not to charge four people
- Irish News
- October 29, 2020, 13:30
Northern Correspondent Four people, including two former MI5 officers, will not face charges in connection with an investigation into the agent code(...)
Veteran Republican masterminded Northern Bank Robbery and Maze prison escape before playing key role in Sinn Féin’s road to peace Nearly 1,800 men(...)
Investigator pledges to work to find truth behind Dublin-Monaghan bombings
- Irish News
- May 17, 2020, 12:53
A former English chief constable who is also investigating the British army agent known as Stakeknife and the loyalist Glennane Gang has pledged to do(...)
Stakeknife inquiry could lead to 30 people facing charges, court hears
- High Court
- January 31, 2020, 15:51
An investigation into a British spy inside the IRA could lead to more than 30 people facing criminal proceedings in connection with at least 10 murder(...)
MI5 has ‘legal power’ to authorise agents to commit crimes
- Irish News
- December 20, 2019, 18:51
Two of Britain’s most senior legal figures have ruled for the first time that a secret MI5 policy which allows British security service agents to comm(...)
Q&A: What is the Stakeknife scandal, and what happens next?
- Crime & Law
- October 3, 2019, 09:59
What is the Stakeknife scandal? The agent code named “Stakeknife” was one of British military intelligence’s most valued assets, operating inside the(...)
More than 20 people may be prosecuted after Stakeknife inquiry
- Politics
- October 3, 2019, 09:41
A police inquiry into one of the biggest spy scandals in the history of British intelligence has recommended that more than 20 people including senior(...)
Documentary claims Stakeknife carried out IRA’s Loughgall investigation
- Irish News
- October 1, 2019, 22:00
The British agent known as Stakeknife was entrusted with the IRA’s internal investigation into the deaths of eight IRA members in an SAS ambush in Lou(...)
Four make shortlist for post of PSNI chief constable
- Irish News
- May 15, 2019, 01:05
Three serving and one former senior police officer, including the man who is in charge of the investigation into the British army agent known as Stake(...)
Newton Emerson: Stakeknife case will cut into comforting narratives
- Opinion
- December 20, 2018, 05:00
The power of the Stakeknife story to upset comforting histories in Northern Ireland can be gauged by the range of people who never mention it. Promine(...)



