Chatter: Spy Satire with Alex Finley

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🗓️ 24 April 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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In this episode of Chatter, a podcast hosted by David Priess and Shane Harris that features in-depth discussions with fascinating people at the creative edges of national security, Harris and Priess speak jointly with former intelligence officer, prominent yacht-watcher and book author Alex Finley. They talk about her career in the CIA's Directorate of Operations (which became the National Clandestine Service during her tenure there), her keen observation and analysis of Russian oligarchs' mega-yachts (which brought her onto cable news networks this spring after several countries started to seize the ships in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine), and her experience writing a series of spy satire novels (which take espionage absurdity to a new level). The three of them also kicked around views on a range of spy satire films, from 1985's Spies Like Us to the puppet-centric Team America to Spy with Melissa McCarthy. Learn more about Chatter at https://shows.acast.com/chatter.

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0:36.5	I'm Katherine Pompilio with an episode of chatter for April 24, 2022.
0:42.4	For today's episode, the team at LawFair decided to cross post this week's episode of
0:46.4	chatter, a podcast hosted by David Pries and Shane Harris that features in-depth discussions
0:51.9	with fascinating people at the creative edges of national security.
0:56.2	Today's chatter episode is entitled Spice Satire with Alex Finley.
1:00.3	In the episode, Pries and Harris sit down with Finley to discuss her career in the CIA's
1:04.7	Directorate of Operations, her keen observation and analysis of Russian oligarchs mega-yots,
1:10.8	and her experience writing a series of Spice Satire novels.
1:14.7	This is chatter.
1:26.1	Welcome to chatter.
1:27.1	I'm David Pries.
1:28.9	This week, author and former CIA officer Alex Finley on Spice Satire.
1:36.5	Alex Finley, welcome to chatter.
1:38.9	Thank you for having me.
1:40.2	Hello, we're both here.
1:41.6	I didn't know you were crashing.
1:43.6	How did you get into this?
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