Code Name Blue Wren
REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.3 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ana Montes was a trusted analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, a rising star with access to America’s most sensitive secrets. But beneath her composed exterior she lived a double life. For nearly twenty years, she betrayed her country, feeding classified intelligence to Cuba—not for money, but out of conviction.
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| 0:00.0 | Love unsettling stories. |
| 0:02.4 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to redacted, declassified mysteries, |
| 0:06.4 | early and ad-free, as well as another twisted tale from Bollin Studios and Wondry called Wartime Stories, |
| 0:12.8 | also hosted by me, Early and Ad-Free on Wondry Plus. |
| 0:16.7 | Start your free trial today. On the morning of September 21st, 2001, Anna Montez got up early and stepped into her shower. |
| 0:33.6 | She turned on the hot water and then started using her many bars of soap, one after another, |
| 0:39.3 | as she meticulously cleaned every inch of her body. |
| 0:42.3 | Anna had a secret she was trying to scrub off. |
| 0:47.3 | She stepped out of the shower and got dressed quickly. |
| 0:50.3 | Her apartment in the upscale Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Cleveland Park was clean and organized, |
| 0:56.7 | with not a thing out of place, or so she thought. |
| 1:01.2 | She sped off to work in her Red Toyota Echo. |
| 1:04.2 | As she breezed along the highway, Anna staled herself for a busy day. |
| 1:08.7 | She worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency. |
| 1:16.0 | Things had been hectic in the 10 days since Middle Eastern terrorists had hijacked planes and flown them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
| 1:19.9 | Anna was the chief analyst of Cuban intelligence, but now, with a country preparing for war, |
| 1:24.9 | it was all hands on deck, even for people like Anna, whose jobs |
| 1:29.3 | seemed far removed from the Middle East. Under different circumstances, Anna might have noticed |
| 1:35.2 | there was a car tailing her. But today, she was too focused on getting to work to pay any attention. |
| 1:42.3 | Anna arrived and settled into her desk. But just as she began work, |
| 1:47.3 | her phone rang. It was Dave Curtin, a high-ranking intelligence official. She noticed |
| 1:53.6 | his usual friendly tone with her had become curt and impatient, but she chalked it up to the |
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