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12 June 2005. Thanks to A.

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Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Life (UK), 12 June 2005

Call Scap!

By Alan Murray

A JUDGE has cleared the way for one of the IRA's biggest 'traitors' to be brought before a Belfast court.

Army agent Freddie Scappaticci, who is believed to have fled to Italy after his cover was blown, is one of several witnesses another former spy intends to call in an action against the Ministry of Defence.

Last Friday, a judge threw out an attempt by MoD lawyers to block a full hearing into an action by a former spy who uses the pseudonym "Sam Rosenfeld".

The MoD had attempted to restrict the type of hearing Rosenfeld's lawyers could conduct during an unusual sitting in the Queen's Bench division of the Family Court in Belfast, where proceedings are conducted in camera.

But despite their attempt to limit Rosenfeld's action, a judge ruled that he can call the range of witnesses he chooses, in pursuit of his quest for compensation.

Rosenfeld is a 43-year-old Englishman who worked as a builder along the border and agreed to work for the Army's Force Research Unit in November 1991, when he ran a business in Enniskillen.

He claimed to be part of Operation Rose, an MI5 operation to gather intelligence information on IRA activists operating along the border.

He began his legal action against the Ministry of Defence in 1995, but hopes to have a full hearing of his case before the end of this year.

Friends in London, where he now lives, say Rosenfeld intends to call Scappaticci, Sir John Stevens, all his previous Army and MI5 handlers and contacts and an accountant, who he claims has acted undercover in the province for the security agencies for many years.

The Rosenfeld case is one of two high profile cases being brought by former spies which could expose secret Army, MI5 and Special Branch operations across Northern Ireland in the so called 'dirty war' against terrorism.

Scappaticci is understood to have fled to Monte Cassino in Italy early last summer, after he accepted advice from the Special Branch that the IRA intended to abduct, interrogate and kill him for his acts of betrayal.

For a decade the west Belfastman acted as the deputy to former Special Boat Services marine John Joe Magee, who headed the IRA's internal security unit which interrogated and sanctioned the deaths of suspected informers within the terrorist organisation's ranks.

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