Spy Case Threatens Leadership in British Military, PIRA

Truth may be stranger than fiction in Northern Ireland, where a 58-year-old bricklayer and child of Italian immigrants has been accused of being the British army's top spy inside the IRA for more than two decades. The revelations have stunned the Provisional IRA, but the political fallout that might result from the outing of an informant called "Stakeknife" could have far more serious legal repercussions for dozens of British military officials, who risk being charged with conniving through IRA and unionist informants to murder dozens of people.