Nine-year investigation paints highly critical picture of agency’s handling of double agent
Who was Stakeknife? MI5 mole at the heart of IRA
Britain’s security services allowed a top agent inside the IRA to commit murders and then impeded a police investigation into the affair, according to a damning official report.
MI5 helped the double agent known as Stakeknife to evade justice from a “perverse sense of loyalty” that outlasted Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the police investigation known as Operation Kenova said on Tuesday.
His handlers twice took him out of Northern Ireland for a “holiday” when they knew police sought to question him on suspicion of murder and false imprisonment, it revealed.
