John Ware
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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Well, it may have been, but it may well have been.
But it is certainly true that...
there was a competition and, and not a very, and we know, which is ultimately not, not, not healthy for the, for the, for the preeminent purpose for which agents were supposedly run, which was to, to, to, you know, save lives and, and spare property from being, being damaged.
But, you know, it's hard to say whether this competition actually cost lives, but, but it, it descended in some cases, certainly in the case of Nelson and to,
You know, some pretty brutal language from, in his case, between the military intelligence handlers and the security service who were keen to run Nelson and the military in the end held the cards.
Interesting.
I think most people think that the MI5 was the sort of overarching idea.
It's not the case.
The military held the cards and they won that battle.
And it's also the case that MI5 at one stage tried to take over the running of Scappaticci when he was on the run in the south in the Republic.
And their argument was, well, you know, to the army.
You don't operate south of the border.
We do.
So you should hand him over to us.
But the army resisted.
Yes.
The records show that his motivation when he approached, I mean, he was, as they call it, a walk-in.
I mean, he made the initial approach to the British Army and said, look, I'm a former soldier.
I can work for you.
And the
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