MI5 ‘s blanket “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” on Stakeknife is absurd and under pressure to change from other parts of the UK Establishment

MI5 ‘s blanket “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” on Stakeknife is absurd and under pressure to change from other parts of the UK Establishment

John Ware has form as a leading investigator into the Troubles for BBC Panorama, including the Stakeknife record and responsibility for the Omagh bomb.  His relentless account in the Irish News of the lengths to which the British state was prepared to go to deny the identity of Freddie Scapatticci as Stakeknife has an added significance beyond filling in the details. The fact that his well placed legal sources were prepared to talk in a generall…