Summary Teague Double Blind

In his article “Double Blind,” Teague explains how British Intelligence was able to infiltrate the IRA. Beginning on March 7, 2006, Teague met with double agent, Fulton, who had helped the British undermine the IRA on Platform 13. During Fulton’s interview, Teague learns about the Dirty War which was “a cutthroat and secret British effort to infiltrate the IRA, carried out in the shadows of the infamous Troubles,” (1). According to Teague, the Dirty War provided a model for how to dismantle a terrorist organization because:
British spies subverted the IRA from within, leaving it in military ruin, and Irish Republican- who want to end British rule in Northern Ireland and reunite the island-have shifted their weight to Sinn Féin and its peaceable,