John Crawley
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Apr
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Again, no informants.
And I just sometimes...
wonder what the IRA could have done if it had replicated that in one or two more areas.
I think we'd have been on top of the situation.
Whereas I believe towards the end, by the time the IRA had signed up to the Good Friday Agreement, that the British very much held the initiative and were very much in control of the strategic environment across the board, even though the IRA tried to portray it as a stalemate.
There was no stalemate.
I mean, outside of a small enclave in South Armagh, the Brits could basically go anywhere they wanted.
And they commanded the whole area.
Excuse me.
The IRA certainly couldn't do that.
We were infiltrated.
Like, I don't think we had senior members of MI5 working for us giving us information.
But they had our, I mean, they had our head of security, Scappaticci.
You've probably heard of him.
Steakknife.
The head of IRA security.
that the man in charge of our security was a British agent for years.
And a lot of people believe that's just the tip of the iceberg.
You know, it's scary when you think about it, you know.
Well, tens of thousands of British soldiers went through the North over 30 years.
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