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  • Thatcher's Spy

  • My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Féin
  • Written by: Willie Carlin
  • Narrated by: Matthew Forsythe
  • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Written by: Willie Carlin
Narrated by: Matthew Forsythe
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In Thatcher's Spy, the Cold War meets Northern Ireland's Dirty War in the remarkable real-life story of a deep under-cover British intelligence agent, a man now doomed forever to look over his shoulder.

In March 1985, as he climbed the six steps of Margaret Thatcher's prime-ministerial jet on the runway of RAF Aldergrove, little did Willie Carlin know the role Freddie Scappaticci played in saving his life.

So began the dramatic extraction of Margaret Thatcher's key undercover agent in Sinn Féin. For 11 years, Willie Carlin worked alongside IRA commander Martin McGuinness in the republican movement's political wing in Derry.

He was MI5's man at McGuinness' side and gave the British State unprecedented insight into the IRA leader's strategic thinking. When Carlin's cover was blown in 1985, Thatcher authorised the use of her jet to whisk him to safety. Incredibly, it was another British spy inside the IRA's secretive counter-intelligence unit, the 'nuttin' squad', who saved Carlin's life. This is his story.
©2019 Willie Carlin (P)2019 W. F. Howes
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Enthralling but sad story

A fascinating expose of the Troubled times and the savagery against others. People who served in this role ar Nuremberg. Never able to live a normal

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