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David McCloskey

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

What's he providing?

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

What information is of such value that we can even consider this trade-off in the way that SCAP is handled?

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

I know that Clapham is a part of London.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

It is in South London.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

Very good.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

Yes, there is a Clapham Common.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

What is Clapham Junction?

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

That's confusing.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

I guess you have a fundamental, I guess in some ways, operational dilemma, which is if SCAP knows about five upcoming operations, attacks, whatever...

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

If you use the information he provides to disrupt all of them, you raise questions about, well, where do those breaches come from?

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

And it could potentially get back to your agent, right?

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

So you have to be thoughtful about how you use his information, what you let go, what you disrupt, and how you do it, right?

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

Yeah.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

So there's an operational dilemma in running this sort of source.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

There's also a fundamental moral dilemma, which is...

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

This is exactly the kind of agent you want because if you're the British state, you see yourself as being, we're at war with a terrorist organization.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

Again, this would be the British state's mentality.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

We need people inside that organization to provide us information about what's going on.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

But at the same time, recruiting people inside those organizations means you're going to tend to not recruit angels.

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150. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: How To Run a Killer (Ep 2)

You're going to recruit people who, again, from the standpoint of the