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True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

Blood On The Waterside | MI5

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

SPYSCAPE

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Kirby meets a spy who infiltrated the political wing of the Irish Republican movement. Willie Carlin risked his life in Derry, Northern Ireland, on a daily basis to provide the UK with intelligence that could help to end decades of violence and killing. How far would YOU go for peace? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets and skills. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.

0:09.6

Week by week, mission by mission.

0:12.4

You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.

0:19.2

You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.

0:24.4

What do they know? What are their skills?

0:27.6

And what would you do in their position?

0:32.0

This is True Spies.

0:33.8

I went next door and there was armoured rifles and bandaliers of bullets.

0:38.4

And I thought Jesus Christ.

0:40.0

It was one of those moments when I knew I was going to die.

0:44.2

No doubt. This is it.

0:46.0

This is True Spies.

0:48.0

Episode 31. Blood on the waterside.

0:58.8

This is the story of one man's secret role in ending one of the most intractable conflicts of the 20th century.

1:06.4

He still can't quite believe it.

1:09.6

I had come from being a young boy growing up in the Craig and the State.

1:15.2

No being betrayed by the key GB. I'm not intelligent.

1:19.6

It's a story that begins in a deprived housing estate in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland.

1:25.6

It ends in the corridors of power.

1:28.8

I thought Jesus Christ you couldn't make this up.

1:32.0

My name is Wally Carlin and I work for M.A.5 and the free from 7040-85.

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