{"id":1050,"date":"2023-04-11T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2025-06-07T17:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:49:54","slug":"steak-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Steak knives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>11\/04\/2023 19:50<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Julian O&#8217;Neill<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BBC News NI home affairs correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Freddie Scappaticci denied he was the Army&#8217;s most high-ranking agent in the IRA during the Troubles.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-65244928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stakeknife: Alleged Army agent in IRA Freddie Scappaticci dies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2026 Freddie Scappaticci, the man suspected of being Stakeknife, the Army&#8217;s top agent within the IRA, has died.<br>Mr Scappaticci, who was in his 70s, always denied he was Stakeknife. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why would he not be telling the truth even though it may be entirely casuistically? He was never the most high ranking agent in the IRA at all. There was another who held a much higher rank than Scappaticci did. It is his identity that has been successfully concealed by the investigations into Scappaticci and his own vehement denials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/04\/2023 19:50 By Julian O&#8217;Neill BBC News NI home affairs correspondent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}