The British government has been urged to name the army’s top spy in the Provisional IRA following a major independent probe into his activities. Operation Kenova found in its interim report that more ...

MI5 turned a blind eye to “grotesque” crimes committed by a British spy who infiltrated the IRA during the Troubles, a damning report has found. Agent Stakeknife worked within the internal security ...

There were concerns that Stakeknife – the British Army’s top spy in the Provisional IRA’s internal security unit during the Troubles – was “a danger to himself” in 2003, according to Irish Government ...