David McCloskey

Scapp told the man he would take him home, reassuring him he's got nothing to worry about.

Scapp had told him to keep the blindfold on for security reasons as they walked from the car.

It was funny, this is Scab talking, watching the bastard stumbling and falling, asking me as he felt his way along railings and walls, is this my house now?

And I'd say, no, not yet, walk on some more.

And then you shot the f*** in the back of the head, said John Joe, and both of them burst out laughing.

So you get a sense of the man that, you know, this guy has made some kind of transition from the bullying bricklayer with a bit of a penchant for, you know, violence to someone who's executing it regularly in his role inside the IRA.

Well, let's end this episode there.

And next time we will look at how SCAP is recruited and how really how the British state, British security forces run an agent inside the IRA, an agent that is himself committing murder.

Also a reminder.

that listeners can and should, I think we'd say, Gordon, go and join the Declassified Club at therestisclassified.com, where you'll get early access to this entire series, as well as exclusive bonus content, including an interview that we will be doing with Patrick Radden Keefe, who is the author of Say Nothing and the upcoming book, London Falling.

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And spoiler alert, the answer for what to do now about Iran's nuclear capabilities is not going to be a single bombing run.

And so we'd also talked last time about this very complicated and high stakes rescue mission to go and rescue a downed U.S.

airman in Iran that took place last week.

And we should say again, we're recording this second episode online.

April the 9th.

And that rescue was this complicated mission to bring a bunch of special mission unit operators from the SEAL teams and Delta Force into this airstrip, fly out in helicopters to go and bring this airman back and get him out.

That is going to be some of the context that we'll also bring to the story about what

an operation to go after some of Iran's key nuclear capabilities might look like.

But I think before we get there, Gordon, it makes sense to kind of start at the beginning of Trump 2.0, 2025, because as we said last time, we have this problem.