David McCloskey
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17,234 appearances
72 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
David McCloskey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A massive part of it today, I think, a uh, you know, as in Phobey's day, is deconfliction.
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It's helping to understand where the two services might bump into each other, where they might be running the same operations, targeting the same people, and making sure that everyone plays in the sandbox well together, because there's such a convergence of geopolitical interest that it makes no sense to have the two services bumping into each other.
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Yeah, you don't want your
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Literally bumping into each other or having case officers going and trying to recruit the same networks.
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So Philby's job is kind of school marm of the sandbox in a way, of making sure that the two services play nicely.
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reach.
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And this came up
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Constantly in the series we did back in August on the Five Eyes, where the the geographic spread.
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Matters.
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The footprint matters for signals intelligence and in this case for actually planning and you know staging paramilitary operations.
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the case.
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Better names.
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Better better code.
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I'm gonna give you that.
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I'm going to give you that.
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I guess also seen from
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MI6, Albanian exile agents are not, yeah, you you probably consider them to be pretty expendable resources, unfortunately.
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mean Phil Philby is in a very interesting
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structural position.
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And it's quite valuable to the KGB.
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