British agents inside Provisional IRA knowingly killed others in organisation, Kenova report finds

who were working for the security services knowingly murdered other agents in a similar position, according to the interimThe report, which was focused on the activities of an agent code-named Stakeknife, widely understood to be the late PIRA memberAgents inside the PIRA who gave information to the security services saved many lives during the Troubles and “significantly degraded and debilitated the effectiveness of terrorist groups,” the report said.

However, according to the report, some of those murdered had not in fact been informers and in some instances they had been accused of informing because of rivalry or matters to do with sexual relationships. Senior leadership figures in the PIRA who commissioned the ISU were later active in seeking fairness and human rights protections, the report said.

Leaders from the time who were interviewed included prime ministers, government ministers, permanent under secretaries, director generals of M15, and senior army and police officers. The approach to managing agents varied within the security services, the report said, with M15 demonstrating “elements of reasonable oversight”, in contrast to the Special Branch and the FRU. At times there were suspicions that agents were not being managed in compliance with Home Office guidelines but “nothing was done” to identify or correct such failures.

Belfast solicitor Kevin Winter, of KRW Law, who held a press conference after the publication of the report, noted how there were none of the families of victims that he represented, present at the event. The families, most of whom came from republican areas, still felt “very uncomfortable” about being in the public domain.

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