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Gordon Carrera

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Clark Sauce, who's later going to emerge, is a former member of the Frou, who's then referred to as Martin Ingram, but later identified as Ian Hurst.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

And it's interesting because Hurst hadn't handled Steakknife himself when he'd been in Frou, but he'd heard about an important agent because he remembered that there'd been one night when the phone had rung.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

and someone had said they'd been arrested for DUI and suddenly all the top intelligence chiefs came in to work out how to bail this guy out from a driving under the influence of alcohol charge.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

And Hearst had known then that there was someone really significant because the top people had come in.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

So there's an injunction against Hearst and the Sunday Times in the High Court to not name him,

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

He's a disillusioned crew member.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

And I think particularly the fact of what Scappaticci had done and what he'd been up to is something which he becomes kind of very focused on trying to get out.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

But there's an injunction placed on him.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

So actually then, the existence of someone called Steakknife is out, but it's going to be another four years nearly before...

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Scappaticci's name becomes associated with it.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

This is also fascinating because the link between Steakknife, the agent, and Scappaticci starts to appear 10th to 11th of May in news reports, 2003.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Irish media, US websites, finally in the UK media.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Scappaticci is still in Northern Ireland.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

The next, I think, fascinating bit of the story, he decides he's going to brazen it out and just deny everything.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

I don't know what you think, but he's probably realised at this point that if he disappears, that's just going to be taken as confirmation and leave him and his family worried.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

So I think he takes this decision.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

He's going to go public.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

He's going to appear before journalists.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

He's going to do interviews.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

And deny everything.