Cover-up | 7

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

Identity Theft, Uda, Stakeknife, Northern Ireland, Ira, Agents, True Crime, Spies, Sex, Intrigue, Stories, Police, Poison, News, Lies, Documentary, Contaminated Blood, Society & Culture, Relationships, Undercover Police, Stolen Identity, Health & Fitness, Scandal, Love, Love And Relationships, Medicine

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

IRA spycatcher Freddie Scappaticci has been outed as FRU agent Stakeknife – but he’s not going to disappear without a fight. The British state takes unprecedented measures to make sure their spy gets away with murder. Cara teams up with veteran reporter John Ware to reveal just how high up the cover-up goes. Their reporting leads to a key organisation that has so far remained in the shadows: MI5.

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0:00.0	Freddie Scapatici was one of the IRA's top men,
0:07.5	a man now named in intelligence leaks as steakknife,
0:11.1	codename of a British spy who fooled the IRA for 25 years.
0:16.1	It's a Saturday morning in April 2003,
0:19.3	and a string of stories accusing Freddie Scapatici of being an army agent have just been published.
0:25.8	They say that the IRA's top spy catcher in the Nutting Squad was also an agent himself.
0:32.3	And Scaps not happy about it.
0:35.1	Get yourselves off.
0:36.8	Go on.
0:42.3	Fuck off. He's causing enough problems in this house. Take yourself off. Reporters from the BBC show up at Skapp's Belfast home to ask him about his secret double life.
0:49.3	His reactions read by an actor.
0:51.3	Fucking all that stuff on the TV and everything else about us.
0:56.0	My family's stuff around here.
0:57.7	Now fuck off, you and him.
1:00.0	He storms towards the reporters,
1:02.4	wearing a chequered dressing gown with sandals,
1:05.3	his arm waving aggressively.
1:07.9	And take no more photos of this house.
1:11.6	And you too.
1:12.6	Fucking sick of my family being tortured here over you.
1:15.6	Fucking scum users are.
1:18.6	Stories you make up.
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