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David McCloskey

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

I thought the PM flew commercial.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

And then there's another case, Joe Fenton, who is going to be one of these tragic characters who gets caught up in this dirty war and who ends up paying a significant price.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

So I think obviously the cold logic here is that some of these assets are more useful to the British state and some are less useful.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

And so there's a kind of rank ordering.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

But why is Carlin a big fish and Fenton isn't in this case?

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

Because Fenton's doing something that's really valuable to the Frew and to the British army.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

So why do they let him die?

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

There's also the case of Sandy Lynch, and this takes place in early 1990.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

Sandy Lynch is 34 years old at the time, an IRA man who's involved in selecting targets for operations, and he's detained for questioning by the ISU about whether or not he's an informer.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

Hold on, just to go back to this multi-layered trap that's being set here.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

So this is a ploy by the Fru, by the Army, to lure senior Republicans into one spot so that they can be arrested.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

Is that right?

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

And of course, the IRA...

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

No, after this raid has occurred, which obviously, I guess, just the mere fact that the raid happens would raise your suspicions that there was someone who had knowledge of the meeting or who was actually there who had tipped off the British authorities.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

But of course, since Scappaticci's steak knife has used that bug detector device...

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

you know, to scan for radio frequencies.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

He's used that on Lynch.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

It's got his fingerprints on it.

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

So from the standpoint of the IRA...

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151. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: From Spy to Executioner (Ep 3)

Scappaticci should be hunted.