A book detailing the life and crimes of tout Freddie Scappaticci is due on
shelves in eight days.
Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland is written by People Ireland
Editor Greg Harkin and former FRU handler Martin Ingram.
It is the first time a whistleblower inside the British Army has lifted the
lid on what really went on during the Dirty War.
A bid by Scappaticci to ban the book was rejected, in part, because the
Ministry of Defence said to do so would have been pointless.
A legal representative referred to the SpyCatcher case, saying a UK ban
on Stakeknife would have been folly because the book would be available in
the Republic of Ireland where the MoD was unlikely to get an injunction.
Meanwhile a second book due out next May called Dead Men Talking with a
chapter on Scappaticci has been written by Nick Davies.
Davies is the man who wrote a book about the FRU's loyalist agent Brian
Nelson called 10-33. Nelson's real code number was 6137.
