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3. The FRU

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BBC

True Crime

4.7797 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mark meets two former members of the FRU, the secret army intelligence unit that ran the agent Stakeknife. How did they recruit people? How was Scappaticci recruited?

Credits

Reporter: Mark Horgan Produced and written by: Mark Horgan and Ciarán Cassidy Co-Producer: Paddy Fee Editing and Sound Design: Ciarán Cassidy Composer: Michael Fleming Sound mixing: Ger McDonnell Theme tune by Lankum Artwork by Conor Merriman Assistant Commissioners for BBC: Lorraine Okuefuna and Sarah Green. Commissioning Editor for BBC: Dylan Haskins

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.1

You're about to listen to a brand new episode of Steakknife, the new series of cover.

0:09.6

Episodes will be released weekly, wherever you get your podcast, but if you're in the UK,

0:13.3

you can listen to the latest episodes right now, first, on BBC Sounds.

0:17.7

And just so you know, the following podcast contains interviews that some listeners may find upsetting and some occasional strong language.

0:25.3

Episode 3, The Frue.

0:32.3

Forensic experts were examining the damage this morning to try and establish the cause of the fire,

0:43.3

which was discovered at 11 o'clock last night in one of several offices 10 miles outside Belfast. Forensic scientists spent most of the day examining the debris from the fire at the sea park offices,

0:48.3

but haven't yet said whether the blaze was started accidentally or deliberately.

0:53.3

One night in January 1990, there was a fire in an office complex,

0:58.0

situated just outside Carrick Fergus in Northern Ireland.

1:02.0

Four members of the team who tackled the outbreak were treated in hospital for the effects of smoke inhalation.

1:08.0

It was eventually put out by the fire brigade. It's one of many offices in the old Carrera's Rothman's Cigarette factory complex

1:15.6

on their main road between Carrick Ferguson, Belfast. It's guarded 24 hours a day and no one gets in or out without being first checked at the gate.

1:28.5

The strange thing about the fire is that it happened in a high security area.

1:34.2

The complex was in REC headquarters.

1:36.3

There were security guards on the site 24-7.

1:40.8

The fire started before 11 o'clock last night in the third floor office being used by the Stevens team of detectives.

1:47.0

Which was discovered at 11 o'clock last night in one of several offices being used by the Stevens Inquiry Team.

1:53.0

The Stevens Inquiry Team was a major police investigation into allegations of collusion between security forces

2:01.7

or police and army intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries.

2:06.3

It was one of hundreds of intelligence documents that loyalists said they'd received from

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