Tag: Informers

Freddie Scappaticci, Who May Have Been British Spy ‘Stakeknife,’ Is Dead

He denied that he was Stakeknife, the code name of a high-ranking British mole in the Irish Republican Army during the Northern Ireland conflict.

April 18, 2023
Inside the Case Against General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda

A Times Magazine-ProPublica investigation reveals how the U.S. painstakingly built a case against a Mexican general suspected of links to organized crime — and then decided to let him go.

December 8, 2022
In South Africa’s Farmgate Scandal, a Theft and Then a Silence

Namibian investigators tracing money transfers by men suspected of stealing wads of cash from President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa say their cross-border calls for help went unanswered.

June 22, 2022
Trial in Alleged Plot to Kidnap Michigan’s Governor Nears End

Closing arguments are expected Friday in the federal case against four men with militia ties who are accused of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

April 1, 2022
Group Wanted to Kidnap Michigan Governor and Block Biden’s Election, Plotter Says

By abducting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, one man who pleaded guilty said, he hoped to disrupt the 2020 election and perhaps start a civil war.

March 24, 2022