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

The Irishman | JCUNI

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

SPYSCAPE

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ever get the feeling you're being watched? Vanessa Kirby meets the spy behind the camera. Sean Harnett worked at one of the British Army's most secretive regiments, responsible for tracking terrorists across Northern Ireland. As the secrets, lies and workload intensified, he found himself questioning his purpose - and his loyalties. Could YOU keep your eye on the prize? 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.

0:34.0

I always used to say that the British wouldn't be intelligence war.

0:37.6

They might not win the actual war, but they won the intelligence war.

0:40.4

There wasn't a single member of the provisional movement, the continuity area, the real area,

0:45.6

or any loyalists that they didn't know about.

0:48.8

This is True Spies.

0:51.2

Episode 34. The Irishman.

1:01.6

Ever get the feeling you're being watched?

1:04.0

That prickle on the back of your neck?

1:06.8

They had cameras that could read and license plate from 1.8 kilometers away.

1:12.0

And they are a nation. It didn't matter.

1:17.6

Relax. You're probably imagining things.

1:20.8

Aren't you?

1:23.6

But this is 2020 now, and I trade to think what the surveillance capabilities are of units like the dead,

1:31.2

MI5, MI6.

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