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Top British Spy in IRA Flees as Papers Blow Cover Sun May 11,10:56 AM ET 
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By Kevin Smith

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The British army's top intelligence agent inside the
IRA, a suspect in up to 40 murders, was reported to be in hiding after
several Sunday newspapers in Ireland and Britain blew his cover. Newspapers
said British intelligence services had spirited the man, code-named
"Stakeknife," out of Ireland just hours before the papers
published his name.

As a double agent, "Stakeknife" served as the head of the Irish
Republican Army (news - web sites)'s internal security unit -- known as the
"nutting squad." His job was to track down, interrogate, torture
and kill suspected informers in the ranks, reports said.

The man is suspected in up to 40 murders, carried out on both sides of the
Irish border with the permission of his British army "handlers"
to protect his position within the IRA, reports said.

A British government spokesman declined to comment on the reports. "We
don't comment on security matters," the Northern Ireland Office
spokesman said.


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