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Joe JACKSON

IRA Double Agent Likely Cost More Lives Than Saved: British Police

Stakeknife, a double agent within the IRA, passed intelligence to the British authorities (Credit: AFP)

The actions of a prized double agent within paramilitary group the IRA who worked for British security services probably led to more lives being lost than saved in Northern Ireland, an independent investigation said on Friday.

An interim report on the seven-year probe made 10 recommendations after examining 101 murders and abductions linked to a unit of the Irish Republican Army headed by the double agent, who was codenamed "Stakeknife".

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