He has been linked to 18 murders, all while on the state payroll; some victims were fellow agents.
Freddie Scappaticci once told one of his captives that if he had his way he would be hung upside down in a cowshed and no-one would hear him squeal as he was skinned alive.The year was 1990 and Mr Scappaticci's double life as an agent within the IRA was approaching an end., was for a long period the British Army's "golden egg" within the IRA.
His position gave him access to IRA secrets - his unit was known as the Clapham Junction of the organisation, according to one former IRA member, because everything went through it.His life as an agent - and involvement with the IRA - ended when its suspicions grew after the incident involving Sandy Lynch.
He denied it and left Northern Ireland a year later when a recording surfaced of him talking to journalists about senior republicans, including Martin McGuinness.
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