Force Research Unit in Podcasts
governmentBritish military intelligence unit operating in Northern Ireland, responsible for covert operations and agent handling.
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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)
And we are looking at Freddy Scappaticci, the agent known as Stakeknife, who has been recruited by British Army Intelligence, run by a group called the Force Research Unit.
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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)
But the one thing you get at the start of the 1980s is the creation of this thing called the Force Research Unit, or the FRU, which is the more centralized intelligence gathering section of the army.