Mark travels to where Freddie Scappaticci lived after he disappeared from Belfast. A news report we featured from 1987 inspires a man to get in touch with the podcast.

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Reporter: Mark Horgan

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

Shauna tells the story of her mother Caroline Moreland. We hear how her campaigning has helped others connected to the the Stakeknife case and how other families have come forward to Mark since the start of this series.

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Reporter: Mark Horgan

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

We return to the solicitor’s office in West Belfast as Mark meets three crucial people to discuss the end of Scappaticci’s time in the IRA and his eventual uncovering as the agent Stakeknife.

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Reporter: Mark Horgan

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

In 1990, a man called Sandy Lynch was tied up, blindfolded and interrogated by Scappaticci. He survived to document his experience. Marks speaks to an IRA man who “guarded” Lynch.

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Reporter: Mark Horgan

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

Episode 7 is available on Friday, January 3rd on BBC Sounds.

Orla and Kevin Coyle tell the story of their father who was killed as an alleged informer by the IRA. The profound shadow cast by their father’s death has lasted almost 30 years.

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Reporter: Mark Horgan

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

Brendan Hughes wants to question Joe Fenton and find the “main mover.” Is Stakeknife suspected? We meet the former IRA man who interviewed Hughes and whose hero was Scappaticci.

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Reporter: Mark Horgan

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

Mark tells the story of a man called Joe Fenton and how he was connected to Stakeknife. We learn there was a hierarchy of agents, where some were saved and some were not.

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Reporter: Mark Horgan

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

Mark meets two former members of the FRU, the secret army intelligence unit that ran the agent Stakeknife. How did they recruit people? How was Scappaticci recruited?

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Reporter: Mark Horgan

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

Mark speaks to the brother of one of the first people interrogated by Stakeknife. We follow Seamus’ journey as he retraces his brothers steps in the days before he was murdered.

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Reporter: Mark Horgan

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.