David McCloskey

Nobody will tell me different.

So spotted, and just nobody could quite believe it.

And so she was dismissed.

And his fruit handlers are protecting him by, in some cases, not using his intelligence to intervene and to save lives.

But I guess as we move through the 1980s,

Protecting Stakenife, deciding who lives and who dies is going to get even harder, and it'll eventually force Scappatigi Stakenife to disappear.

Do we know what Scappaticci's

interior life is like at this time.

Do we have any insight?

Because he's running this high wire operation as now head of the ISU.

He's also, as you said, he's working at building sites during the day.

He's married.

He's got kids.

Just the psychological complexity of this for him feels like it would be crushing.

It reminds me a little bit of...

the recent admission by the Iranians, and this was a few years ago, that they had stood up a unit, a counterintelligence function, to root out Mossad operatives inside their own intelligence services.

And then it came out that the guy who was running it was himself an agent of the Mossad and had brought other agents of the Mossad in to work with him.

So it's this fox in the henhouse thing that's so...

I mean, the whole thing is, the whole organization's turned inside out when that happens.

And I guess by the late 80s, the IRA is shifting to this strategy called the long war.