# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freddie-scappaticci
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:17:56.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freddie-scappaticci"
name: "Freddie Scappaticci"
slug: "freddie-scappaticci"
description: "Freddie Scappaticci, later known as Frank Cowley, was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its Internal Security Unit (ISU). He was widely identified in media reports and by former intelligence personnel as Stakeknife, a British Army Force Research Unit agent inside the IRA. Scappaticci denied that he had been an agent or that he was Stakeknife."
tagline: "PIRA member; purported double agent"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1946-01-12"
deathDate: "2023-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.89
  momentum:             3.717791411042946
  historical:           5.764782666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Scappaticci"
    title: "Freddie Scappaticci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Scappaticci"
    title: "Freddie Scappaticci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Scappaticci"
    title: "Freddie Scappaticci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%97%E9%9B%B7%E8%BF%AA%C2%B7%E6%96%AF%E5%8D%A1%E5%B8%95%E8%BF%AA%E5%A5%87"
    title: "弗雷迪·斯卡帕迪奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Scappaticci"
    title: "Freddie Scappaticci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Scappaticci"
    title: "Freddie Scappaticci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452616"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump