The life and crimes of IRA mole Freddie Scappaticci

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  • čas přidán 16. 10. 2023
  • The intriguing story of IRA double agent Freddie Scappaticci is one of mystery and fascination and for years has been the subject of the Operation Kenova investigation due to be published in coming weeks.
    Nicola speaks with author and former Provision IRA prisoner Richard O’Rawe whose book 'Stakeknife’s Dirty War' exposes British intelligent's top informer and his role in the IRA’s Nutting Squad.
    He tells Nicola about a narcissist who turned traitor and his sinister role as a notorious torturer who may have told his handlers who was going to live and die during Northern Ireland’s dirty war.
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Komentáře • 130

  • @STEVIEBHOY
    @STEVIEBHOY Před 8 měsíci +26

    Ricky is a gentleman, had the pleasure of meeting him at the launch of his book about the life of Gerry Conlon, In the name of the son 👌💯🇮🇪

    • @tobiaswillcock2534
      @tobiaswillcock2534 Před 3 měsíci +1

      That you Stevie Bhoy😅

    • @STEVIEBHOY
      @STEVIEBHOY Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@tobiaswillcock2534 aye that was me 🤣💯👍

    • @tobiaswillcock2534
      @tobiaswillcock2534 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@STEVIEBHOY Who's the Scappaticci in the acsom chat🤔🤔 my dough is on wee mad mental john shirley's grey parrot🤣🤣

    • @patkearney9320
      @patkearney9320 Před 3 měsíci

      Thank you never heard about the book at all but we got to remember files are closed for decades , this is the nature of conflict personally I’d believe folk who knows them times before I’d swallow BBC stuff. Looking forward to this read.

    • @yogi1kenobi
      @yogi1kenobi Před 2 měsíci

      He was caught on tax fiddle and was offered amnesty

  • @PatrickMurran-iy5kr
    @PatrickMurran-iy5kr Před 8 měsíci +7

    Great podcast 👌needed to be told

  • @georgebrowne5935
    @georgebrowne5935 Před 8 měsíci +32

    It is well publicised now that this Man was a British Agent.
    This means that the British Intelligence forces carried out all these murders, which is shocking and unacceptable .

    • @ringsidejudge4302
      @ringsidejudge4302 Před 8 měsíci

      Correct , this also means Martin McGuinness gave the order to execute all these people . I agree shocking and unacceptable . Maybe that is how MM was turned
      I do not think the John Boucher report will sink the Brits nor any of the living leaders who gave the final execution order to Scappaticci . I bet old Gerry will be sweating a bit now .
      Operation Kenova be a report that will be very cautious not to embarrass the Sinn Fein leaders otherwise the future of the peace process could be in jeopardy. This will be very interesting to see whenever it is released .
      Overall a sordid catalogue of crime , the further I listened to this interview with Richard , the more macabre the whole thing sounds .How could republicans commit these crimes and claim them to be political is just beyond reason .
      Thirty odd million pounds spent and I can guarantee you not one person Brit or Republican will do one hour in jail , guaranteed .

    • @Smokemeakipper41
      @Smokemeakipper41 Před 8 měsíci +10

      He was also an ira volunteer before he was a British agent ,an organisation that murdered and maimed for 30 years, if he hadn't of been an ira member to start with britush intelligence would never of turned him

    • @georgebrowne5935
      @georgebrowne5935 Před 8 měsíci +13

      @RuiPinto41 That's like saying if the British didn't Colonise and Partition Ireland, there wouldn't have been an Organisation called the Irish Republican Army.
      Which happens to be the real Truth.

    • @ministry_of_love
      @ministry_of_love Před 6 měsíci +3

      One could argue that the entire _dissident community_ was always infiltrated

    • @TheNelster72
      @TheNelster72 Před 6 měsíci +2

      He wasn't a British agent as I'm sure you know. He was, allegedly, an IRA member and paid informer.

  • @Sarahmurray514
    @Sarahmurray514 Před 8 měsíci +41

    He had control over killing IRA informers..
    And he was the main informer
    Many of the poor irish men shot by this animal.. and they never informers

    • @Smokemeakipper41
      @Smokemeakipper41 Před 8 měsíci +6

      How do you know they weren't informers and how do you know he was the biggest informer

    • @Sarahmurray514
      @Sarahmurray514 Před 8 měsíci +9

      @@Smokemeakipper41 iv spoke to alot of IRA men and i was told.. by many that steakknife would be told to take out someone by the brits..
      He.d then send rumours around theres a informer.. and he then would take out a inosence man

    • @patriciareilly8841
      @patriciareilly8841 Před 7 měsíci

      I wonder who provided the intelligence for Operation Flavius, the unlawful killing of Mairead Farrell, Sean Savage and Dan McCann, by the SAS on Gibraltar?@@Sarahmurray514

    • @AmandaBowe-be6vd
      @AmandaBowe-be6vd Před 6 měsíci +6

      I hate people calling them animals.... animals wouldn't do this.... monsters or savages would be more apt

    • @Sarahmurray514
      @Sarahmurray514 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@AmandaBowe-be6vd he laid inosent young men to death

  • @utregsoulnorh715
    @utregsoulnorh715 Před 8 měsíci +8

    I love this channel,great information...I was wondering for decades who the boss of the Nutting Squad was....thanks ,from the Netherlands.

    • @KazZyb22
      @KazZyb22 Před 8 měsíci +6

      The Brits were actually the bosses of the nutting squad

    • @utregsoulnorh715
      @utregsoulnorh715 Před 8 měsíci

      @@KazZyb22 ...true that..scap was just an agent in the dirty war in the north of Ireland.

    • @gerardhenry5501
      @gerardhenry5501 Před 3 měsíci

      John joe Magee was also a British agent

  • @RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio
    @RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio Před 8 měsíci +9

    This guy had some brass balls, talk about living dangerously.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Před 3 měsíci +2

      He was protected by people above him, including Mr McGuinness, which allowed Freddie to kind of "play for both teams at the same time".

  • @wingnut71
    @wingnut71 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Freddy was the worstest mole. He made a terrible mess of my fucking lawn. You should see the size of the holes he made!😅🇬🇧

  • @crowkane1160
    @crowkane1160 Před 8 měsíci +11

    There whole army council where in British intelligence back pocket

  • @jjhkm
    @jjhkm Před 6 měsíci

    Read the book moons ago but the story is told better here, cracking podcast thanks

  • @adrianaosirish6065
    @adrianaosirish6065 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Very interesting .

  • @ministry_of_love
    @ministry_of_love Před 7 měsíci +3

    Of all the Crime World podcasts, this is probably one of the most intriguing stories. There's definitely a Hollywood film here

  • @leoobroin3804
    @leoobroin3804 Před 8 měsíci

    Brilliant story.

  • @user-sz8km9dy5v
    @user-sz8km9dy5v Před 4 měsíci +5

    That’s how dumb the IRA was

    • @nicknick1963
      @nicknick1963 Před 3 měsíci

      According to the interim Kenova report he cost more lives than he saved,so maybe they weren't so daft

  • @liamkeane9159
    @liamkeane9159 Před 8 měsíci +9

    The downfall of any Irish rebellion a bloody tout

    • @jintsfan
      @jintsfan Před 3 měsíci

      Gutting, huh ??😂

    • @liamkeane9159
      @liamkeane9159 Před 3 měsíci

      @@jintsfan going back the centuries man with rebellions

    • @patkearney9320
      @patkearney9320 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@liamkeane9159Imagine the volunteers life soldier but a volunteer something so noble yet something destructive to themselves and others , to volunteer’s one’s everything even your dog it’s truly brave, but the waste the tout is irelands curse through centuries.🇮🇪♟.

  • @johnpower3572
    @johnpower3572 Před 8 měsíci +4

    The worse if the worse

  • @stewatparkpark2933
    @stewatparkpark2933 Před 3 měsíci +1

    He would have already been " turned " when he refused early release from detention . Staying in longer than he needed to built up his street cred . Think the complete opposite when it comes to the spying game .

  • @louise_rose
    @louise_rose Před 4 měsíci +1

    The guy seems to be straight out of John le Carré's world - I saw the fascinating BBC Spotlight feature on him last summer (also on CZcams: "The Spy who got away with Murder") and it was just absorbing. Certainly must have been one ice cold guy to pull it off for fifteen years! (this doesn't indicate any admiration for him, of course).

  • @sitluxetluxfuit4481
    @sitluxetluxfuit4481 Před 7 měsíci +6

    How did he live into his seventys ? Clearly still procected

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Před 3 měsíci

      Yep, protected identity (as "Frank") somewhere in England. A court injunction from around 2003 prohibited journalists from approaching him or exposing his current ID - that's why there has been a number of programmes and articles about him after he died last year.

    • @kieransavage100
      @kieransavage100 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Was in the same class CBS Harding St school.Scappo was a Nutter,in more ways than one.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Před 3 měsíci

      @@kieransavage100 The name "Christian Brothers School" sounds really odd in view of his later career. :)

  • @nicknick1963
    @nicknick1963 Před 3 měsíci

    The Kenova report (interim) has not formally identified him as stakeknife...yet

    • @wingnut71
      @wingnut71 Před 2 měsíci

      The "judge" that ordered the report is a rebel supporter who was appointed to the role of the chief justice by rebel ministers of Sinnfein/IRA. He seems to wish to embarrass the British, but all I see is a very embarrassed Sinnfein/IRA

  • @wilfpickles9488
    @wilfpickles9488 Před 7 měsíci +7

    Has anyone seen his corpse?

  • @Irishtinian494
    @Irishtinian494 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Rick was a great volunteer.

    • @ATLmodK
      @ATLmodK Před 8 měsíci +1

      Really?

    • @patrickferran1678
      @patrickferran1678 Před 7 měsíci

      Are you nuts or something. He got shot by the IRA for robbing the people's garage ya balloon great vol my b...s.🤡🤡🤡

    • @Irishtinian494
      @Irishtinian494 Před 6 měsíci

      Really.​@@ATLmodK

    • @wingnut71
      @wingnut71 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Good at volunteering information.😅 About how the Brits duped the Provo scumbags.

    • @Irishtinian494
      @Irishtinian494 Před 2 měsíci

      @@wingnut71 you're bum hurts.. right 😄

  • @mukeshpatel-gj4sd
    @mukeshpatel-gj4sd Před 3 měsíci

    Briilant ? Love your voice

  • @patrickferran1678
    @patrickferran1678 Před 7 měsíci

    They all knew fred was at it and got a free ride.

  • @gerardhenry5501
    @gerardhenry5501 Před 3 měsíci +3

    If the ra had of done scap his book would have been no good as he was needed to be alive to collaborate the story . Scap was outed to protect a bigger fish that’s how it works .

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 Před 3 měsíci

      MMCG

    • @gerardhenry5501
      @gerardhenry5501 Před 3 měsíci

      @@petebondurant58 no someone in Belfast .

    • @petebondurant58
      @petebondurant58 Před 3 měsíci

      @@gerardhenry5501 He didn't die in Belfast.

    • @gerardhenry5501
      @gerardhenry5501 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@petebondurant58 you were saying mc Guinness and I said no there is a bigger informer jn Belfast . I would think scap was helped over the line he knew too much

  • @OatyReading
    @OatyReading Před 3 měsíci

    Wasn't he caught fiddling his VAT/Income tax and then turned informant?

  • @tonyyates2012
    @tonyyates2012 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Good lads!, you found the volume. 😂

  • @roberthughes3904
    @roberthughes3904 Před 3 měsíci

    When the story of Scappaticci first surfaced it was alleged he was 'turned' because of underage sex allegations against him.

  • @ORIGINOLINDIVIDUAL
    @ORIGINOLINDIVIDUAL Před 8 měsíci +2

    The majority of IRA touts were not blackmailed the British 🤚🏻

  • @royalordinance
    @royalordinance Před měsícem

    Unbelieveble, but he was a walk-in....!

  • @Boobang57th
    @Boobang57th Před 8 měsíci +1

    ☝🏾

  • @tonyyates2012
    @tonyyates2012 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Nothing here, someone needs more coffee, lol

  • @Judgementday-qp1ol
    @Judgementday-qp1ol Před 3 měsíci

    The Life and Crimes of British foreign Occupation in Ireland.

  • @jamesfrancis3722
    @jamesfrancis3722 Před 8 měsíci +1

    99 ice cream thanks Freddie

    • @andrewroy2876
      @andrewroy2876 Před 8 měsíci

      And a pizza 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @wingnut71
      @wingnut71 Před 2 měsíci

      Driving a Mr whippy ice-cream van! Lol.

  • @neilcolwell3107
    @neilcolwell3107 Před 3 měsíci

    I seen him recently. I was definitely him.

  • @raymondcrane1900
    @raymondcrane1900 Před 8 měsíci

    Couldn’t fight “ a missfit” 69” he was told he wouldn’t stand up to Nothing “ fight that a joke

  • @kieransavage100
    @kieransavage100 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Went to school with him….No hint of republicanism….

  • @kevinquigg9328
    @kevinquigg9328 Před 8 měsíci +1

    He's in Bondi beach selling 99s

  • @Barracuda71-ln3jr
    @Barracuda71-ln3jr Před 21 dnem

    Infiltrated like "ticks" on a deer.

  • @mollyhague6546
    @mollyhague6546 Před 8 měsíci

    spea k k n I f e

  • @notatthetablecarlos6708
    @notatthetablecarlos6708 Před měsícem

    Maybe the police had it on him at a young girl and thats why he turned informer

  • @martynroberts8944
    @martynroberts8944 Před 8 měsíci

    Can't hear a bloody thing 🤨

    • @KazZyb22
      @KazZyb22 Před 8 měsíci

      Turn ur volume up

  • @maxplanck9055
    @maxplanck9055 Před 6 měsíci

    It would have been obvious what was happening if every execution was stopped, it would have looked like double agent activity, stopping the deaths was impossible. People not dying is not the only consideration when maintaining an agent in the ira counter intelligence squad as a double agent. ✌️❤️🇬🇧

  • @damienholden2132
    @damienholden2132 Před 4 měsíci

    Tell the truth howed did you know

  • @ATLmodK
    @ATLmodK Před 8 měsíci +1

    Simply a clone of another podcast.

  • @josephmcdonnell402
    @josephmcdonnell402 Před 8 měsíci

    Slabber

  • @P070701
    @P070701 Před 3 měsíci

    Other people got ice cream bet gerry andmartin got 99she could probably belly dance with a top hat on underneath a snake

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple883 Před 8 měsíci +2

    I belive he was gay, just my opinion.

    • @jacquiewalton1996
      @jacquiewalton1996 Před 8 měsíci

      The "extreme porn" that he was prosecuted for included animal sex but not gay porn
      " Freddie Scappaticci, the man widely identified as the army’s long serving informer inside the IRA, has admitted two counts of possessing extreme pornography.
      Scappaticci, 72, who has been widely identified as Agent Stakeknife, appeared briefly at Westminster magistrates court in central London on Wednesday morning to admit the charges.
      He spoke only to enter his pleas to the charges. The chief magistrate, Emma Arbuthnot, sentenced him to three months in custody, suspended for 12 months.
      The court heard the charges related to at least 329 images, including bestiality. There were no images involving children. Scappaticci was charged with two counts of possession of extreme pornographic images, contrary to Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. The charges covered the period from October 2015 to January this year.

    • @Thelastborder
      @Thelastborder Před 7 měsíci +1

      Just like his priest

    • @jacquiewalton1996
      @jacquiewalton1996 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@Thelastborder Just like John McAleese (SAS)

    • @jacquiewalton1996
      @jacquiewalton1996 Před 7 měsíci

      @@Thelastborder But a three-week Sunday Mercury investigation has discovered that McAleese had been locked in an extraordinary legal battle with the country for whom he once fought so valiantly.
      The former decorated soldier, who guarded three Prime Ministers during a distinguished career, spent the last year of his life refusing to return to the UK to answer allegations that he had downloaded child pornography.
      McAleese was photographed fighting back tears at his son’s funeral at Hereford Cathedral on September 14, 2009.
      Just four days later he was arrested and questioned by West Mercia Police officers on suspicion of downloading indecent images of children to his home computer in 2007.
      He was released and bailed until a later date.
      McAleese is understood to have attended the police station by appointment. Sources who knew him say he had been previously contacted by British police as early as 2007, and had promised to speak to them when he returned to the UK.
      After the questioning, McAleese returned to Greece where he was living with his second wife.
      But he failed to answer his next bail appointment and when police contacted him in Greece he is said to have refused to return to the UK.
      The authorities then began formal proceedings aimed at trying to bring McAleese back to Britain.
      Inquiries by this paper have confirmed that a hearing to obtain an international warrant for his arrest took place at Hereford Magistrates Court on March 17, 2010.
      Magistrates approved the move and it is believed the warrant was sent to the Greek authorities around last November.

    • @paulflah4562
      @paulflah4562 Před 5 měsíci

      No he was a big fan of hard core straight sex porn

  • @bettyboop-xg6jo
    @bettyboop-xg6jo Před 8 měsíci +1

    Yawn

  • @Bptl1234
    @Bptl1234 Před 8 měsíci

    🥩 🔪🥴

  • @rikoshea5549
    @rikoshea5549 Před 7 měsíci +3

    😂😂Do people believe this shit or just enjoy a good story ? This guy is a cracking story teller but he is all over the place. He said scap had 3 houses in a year 😳 is that true ? The guys got a book out so to write a book you need a good story.

    • @Letsgetiton41
      @Letsgetiton41 Před 3 měsíci

      Totally agree

    • @jacquiewalton1355
      @jacquiewalton1355 Před 3 měsíci

      ‘Stakeknife informant' pleads guilty to pornography
      Freddie Scappaticci, identified as the army’s longest serving informant inside the IRA, admitted two counts of possessing extreme pornography
      Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent
      @owenbowcott
      Wed 5 Dec 2018 13.30 GMT
      Freddie Scappaticci, the man widely identified as the army’s long serving informer inside the IRA, has admitted two counts of possessing extreme pornography.
      Scappaticci, 72, who has been widely identified as Agent Stakeknife, appeared briefly at Westminster magistrates court in central London on Wednesday morning to admit the charges.
      He spoke only to enter his pleas to the charges. The chief magistrate, Emma Arbuthnot, sentenced him to three months in custody, suspended for 12 months.
      The court heard the charges related to at least 329 images, including bestiality