David McCloskey

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Could a secret CIA team have conspired to destroy the chances of England's football team?

And could that secret have been kept until now?

Or does it belong in the world of conspiracy theories?

Well, welcome to The Rest Is Classified.

I'm David McCloskey.

And I'm Gordon Carrera.

And we are in the second and final part of our exploration of, as Gordon has written in my notes, one of the darkest claims we have ever looked at on the show, which is the idea that the Central Intelligence Agency might have poisoned, might have poisoned Gordon.

England's goalkeeper during the 1970 World Cup.

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I do think you're spot on, Gabriel, in kind of focusing on the quality of the source.

As I was reading your investigation,

You know, I was thinking about the sourcing chain from the lens of an intelligence officer and thinking that this is, okay, this is essentially fourth-hand information, which obviously increases the likelihood that something has been garbled in the sourcing chain.

But ultimately, and frankly, I actually put this question to a couple of case officers who said...

If a case officer had confidence in the ultimate source and sort of felt like they could credibly have access to this information, and if it gelled with other reporting, a lot of case officers would want to disseminate this in part because they get more credit for having collected intelligence that gets disseminated.

A lot of what we call collection management officers or reports officers would