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This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our Super Secret Studio in the third

sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations

across America and around the world. Hello and welcome to the podcast. Happy Juneteenth. We're

recording this on Juneteenth. Today we are going to have a discussion that is right on the news

and we have a great guest to do it. But before I get to our guest, let me say that I'm David Rothkopf.

I'm here in Washington, D.C. and I am joined by my co-host, Mark Polymeropolis, who is just returned

from watching the Red Sox play in Boston. I think he's back in the Washington, D.C. area. How are

you doing today, Mark? I have a big smile on my face. Red Sox swept the Yankees. We had a great time

up in Fenway, going up with my son for Father's Day, and there are only three games back in the

wildcard. So baseball is back, the Red Sox are back, and the Yankees stink. So the world is good.

The world is right. Well, the Yankees stink, I have to say. I'm consoling myself watching

Shohei Otani every day. A future Red Sox. Yeah. In your dreams. Anyway, we can discuss that later.

But our guest today is Jim Petrilla. He retired from the CIA in 2018, where he worked in the

Office of General Counsel for 25 years. He dealt with a wide variety of illegal issues,

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