10 July 2006. Verio/NTT hosts Cryptome.org.

Subject: URGENT NOTICE RE: Freddie Scappaticci - Court Injunction
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:21:27 -0400
From: "Danna L. Thompson" <dlthompson[at]verio.net>
To: "John Young" <jya@pipeline.com>

We are in receipt of a Court Injunction issued by the High Court in Northern Ireland, dated June 29, 2006.  We appreciate your compliance and immediate cooperation by removing the message post from your site containing personal information located at URL, http://cryptome.org/scappaticci-mod.htm.

Sincerely,

Legal Department
Verio Inc., an NTT Communications Company

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Dear Ms. Thompson,

Thank you for providing a copy of the injunction.

We received a copy of this injunction on June 30 from Mr. Scappaticci's solicitor, Michael Flanigan, and published it on Cryptome for public information:

http://cryptome.org/scappaticci-gag.htm

Serving the injunction on Verio to have the file cited removed is not a valid request, for the injunction only applies to Northern Ireland and England. It has no validity outside those jurisdictions. Thus, it is completely legal to publish the file you cite in the United States and elsewhere not covered by the injunction.

Mr. Flanigan appears to hope Verio will not review the injunction's area of validity. As you may recall this has happened in previous instances concerning files published on Cryptome, in particular those that cannot be published in the UK, and in which authorities make futile efforts to apply British law outside its legitimacy.

Best regards,

John Young

6 July 2006

A writes concerning an injunction banning information about Freddie "Stakeknife" Scappaticci:

The British MoD told Scappaticci to instruct his solicitor to seek an injunction to prevent investigations by journalists.

MoD officials have bugged the phones of a number of leading journalists and tipped off Scap.

However this does not prevent journalists in the Republic of Ireland pursuing Scappticci who often spends weekends in Portrush, Co Antrim, with his wife and family. They also visit him in Gran Canaria and Tenerife as well as Manchester (where Scap has relatives and where he often attends Manchester City football games, a team he once had a trial with as a teenager). Scap has avoided Cassino in Italy, birthplace of his father, in recent months as several newspapers have sent reporters there to look for him. When he does go there, he stays at Hotel La Pace.