A British spy was likely responsible for more lives lost than saved during the Troubles, report says

By PAN PYLAS
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — A seven-year investigation into the activities of a former Irish Republican Army double agent has revealed that the spy was probably responsible for more lives lost than saved during the so-called Troubles that wracked Northern Ireland for three decades. Operation Kenova, which was conducted by a police force just outside of London and cost around 40 million pounds, or $52 million, was tasked in 2016 to find out the truth of the British Army’s supposedly prized agent in the IRA, codenamed “Stakeknife.” British media had identified the spy in 2003 as Belfast IRA veteran Freddie Scappaticci but he denied the allegations right up to his death at age 77 last year. Friday’s report does not name him.