David McCloskey
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17,234 appearances
72 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4d ago
David McCloskey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Relationships can have a tendency to be quite transactional.
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Yeah.
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You know, it's just it's there's a mutual benefit for sharing particular information, and they quite often don't translate into some kind of strategic partnership.
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Yeah.
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everyone knew what was going to happen when that intelligence was passed to the Iranians, right?
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it's hard.
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It reminds me of the uh what was it, the Merdegan line where you know he's he's
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Again, Iran, decades later, justifying an Israeli assassination campaign and saying we're we're killing to save lives.
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You know, today.
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I mean, how did how did Redwood react to this?
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What was his because participating in that meeting in Islamabad, I assume he's a savvy guy.
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He understands a bit of how this is going to be used, but how does he reckon with well of all
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To their power.
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The paranoia, you know, because I'd have to think all of these characters on the Iranian regime side in the early 80s already suspected the worst from today Iranian Marxists.
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But then to have Western intelligence services, who you as an Iranian who lived through 1953, you've lived through the CIS support for the Shah and Savak, you see
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the Brits and the Americans as this kind of all seeing, all powerful entity, they come to you with information.
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From a Soviet KGB officer that they've recruited or they've plopped him down in this chair in Islamabad, they've just given you hard evidence that all of your paranoia is true.
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It cements the idea, doesn't it?
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That
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