A former MI5 agent has questioned why British authorities kept the death of a high-profile IRA informer secret for more than a week.
Martin McGartland, who infiltrated the Provisional IRA during the Troubles, said police investigating Freddie Scappaticci had a duty to inform the public of his death “immediately.”
The 76-year-old—believed to have been the British Army’s top mole within the hardened republican terror gang—died earlier this month.
However, his death was only announced on the day U.S. President Joe Biden made an historic visit to Northern Ireland.
His activities as the head of the IRA’s ruthless “nutting squad”—an internal security unit that interrogated, tortured, and murdered suspected informers—are at the centre of a police inquiry….