CIA? More Like CON | Investigation

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Wayne Simmons was the toast of cable news. A former CIA officer with a storied operational history, he was called upon to comment on matters concerning the Agency. The only problem? He'd never served at all. Vanessa Kirby meets Kent Clizbe, the genuine ex-CIA operations officer who revealed Simmons' fraud to the world at large. Could YOU sniff out a liar? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Claire Crofton. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
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	Espionage is all about building relationships with people and then manipulating them.
0:40.0	Exactly what Con men do.
0:42.0	And the Wayne Simmons story should go down in history as one of the most successful cons ever.
0:49.6	This is True Spies.
0:51.6	Episode 64. C-I-A or C-O-N.
1:02.0	Seat-gris-y defines the lives of True Spies.
1:04.8	Undercover identities blur the lines between fact and fiction.
1:09.6	It's all part of the job.
1:11.6	What's real? What is not?
1:15.6	The truth is often concealed deep beneath years of officially sanctioned lies.
1:21.6	C-I-A officers can live their entire career under cover.
1:27.6	Even their family may not know that they work for the C-I-A.
1:31.6	So it's not unusual after 20, 25, 30 years for someone to say,
1:39.6	okay, I'm retired now and I'd like to share the fact that I was a C-I-A officer.
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