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Author Debriefing: How to Catch a Russian Spy

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on the United States for the Russians – or so the Russians believed. Hear Naveed bring his unbelievable, yet true, story to life. By trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, he pretended to sell out his own country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parking lots. Although he had no formal espionage training, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo he ended up at the center of a highly successful counterintelligence operation that targeted Russian espionage in New York City. With news about Russia’s disintegrating relationship with the United States a frequent headline and political hot topic, How to Catch a Russian Spy is the one-of-a-kind story of how one young man’s post-college adventure became a real-life US counter-intelligence coup. Get the book: http://www.spymuseumstore.org/how-to-catch-a-russian-spy.html#.Vz3ixZMrJTY

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That's spycloud.com slash cyberwire and we thank spy cloud for sponsoring our show. Hi and welcome to an authority briefing from the International Spy Museum.

1:30.0

I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the museum's historian and curator.

1:33.0

Here at the spy museum we get the world's most interesting authors,

1:36.0

including journalists, scholars, former spies and intelligence officers,

1:40.0

coming in to answer questions about their latest works dealing with

1:43.2

espionage, intelligence, and other national security issues.

1:46.9

Please join me in listening to another of our selected authority briefings.

1:50.8

Okay, good afternoon and welcome to Anasas spy museum, another one of our author de briefings.

1:56.8

My name is Vince Houghton. I'm the historian and curator here at the museum.

2:00.8

And we'd like to welcome Navid Jamali, who is the author of this brand new book, came

2:04.9

out yesterday, how to catch a Russian spy.

2:08.5

Now normally when we have an author I'll give you his background his bio where he went to school what

2:13.8

kind of books he wrote but the book itself is really your bio so I think a

2:18.8

somewhat I think witty anecdote to kind of lead this off as appropriate.

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