The interim report into the Army's highest-ranking IRA agent will be published on Friday.
There are many sins in the story of 'Stakeknife', and many questions that wait for answers. On Friday, the interim report of Operation Kenova will be published - an investigation established in 2016 under the command of then Bedfordshire Chief Constable Jon Boutcher, who now holds the most-senior rank in the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
"The dogs in the street know that Fred Scappaticci is the agent Stakeknife," says Belfast lawyer Kevin Winters.It happened after he had been in hiding for some days; forced to run and chased by headlines calling him an agent.For years he had run internal IRA interrogations, at a time when he was also working for the Army.
And, I am told that we can expect to read something about apologies on Friday - that the report will ask for these.From the UK government, an apology for what could have been prevented, and from republicans, an apology for IRA murders and for how families were intimidated and ostracised. Would such a review allow for a conclusive statement in the final report that Scappaticci was Stakeknife?Scappaticci is dead now, adding to the argument that he should be named now as the agent Stakeknife and that the NCND policy should "be set aside" - "especially after a cost of £40 million," Mr Winters argues.
Years later, a one-time senior IRA figure told me that it would be safe to say that Scappaticci was in close contact with the republican leadership before that meeting I had with him in 2003. A confirmation of sorts that he had been stood down, under suspicion, in 1990, after the security forces rescued another agent from an IRA interrogation.
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