David McCloskey
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would be that you'll lose the agents.
And I'd have to think that there's no incentive on the part of the Fru handlers.
You don't want to be the handler that loses steak knife.
That's a career killer all the way up the chain.
If the guy you have who's providing you with all this great intel on the IRA decides, or you end up getting him killed,
Because you're trying to save- One person.
Right, but you're trying to save someone who's a member of the IRA.
You know, you're the fruit handlers.
You're like, no way, no way.
Do we have any sense from...
anything that has come out as part of the canova investigation or otherwise that there was any kind of process inside the fru for thinking through these kind of questions or is that just black box
There's a story from Richard O'Rourke's book, Stake Knives, Dirty War, that
I think illustrates at kind of the granular human level, the kind of game that Scappaticci is playing.
And O'Rourke writes, in 1982, markets resident Marion McCullen was working in the kitchens of the five-star Culloden Hotel in Holywood, County Down.
Did I pronounce all of that correctly, Gordon?
By the way- I think we'll go with that.
We'll go with that.
It's close enough.
I should say it's how it looks-
Like it should be pronounced.