David McCloskey

So this...

This world that Scappaticci is in, these security forces that are attempting to penetrate the IRA, the IRA that is attempting to weed out informants.

This is a really high stakes intelligence game that is being played out on top of a really violent chessboard in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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One British security service that we haven't actually, we didn't talk about in the first episode, which maybe listeners will find surprising, is MI5.

Yeah.

Coming to this story, I would have presumed that a high level agent who is being run inside the United Kingdom, that this would be an MI5 story.

Yeah.

But it's not been to this point.

In the biblical sense, yeah.

We should say the FRU that is inside the army.