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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, DC and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Welcome to the podcast. I'm Mark Polymeropolis and this is DSR's spy show.

Once again, I'm running solo today. David is off on vacation and I'm joined by two friends of mine. This is going to be a great discussion, but I have to start this out quickly.

This is of course to annoy all the Yankees fans because I just want to say what a great draft of Austin Red Sox had last night picking up Kyle Teal, a catcher from UVA.

I live in Virginia, so probably Red Sox fans out here out there watching the DSR spy show.

It's a good day today, but look, I'm super happy to welcome two guests, Peter Stryk and John Cipher, Peter served in the FBI from 1996 to 2018.

He rose to the deputy of its counterintelligence division. During his career, he worked on multiple national security threats, China, Russia, Iran, Cuba.

He's one of the original case agents, in fact, on the SBR legal kind of network, which was, of course, made famous by the television series, the Americans.

Peter is the recipient of the FBI's highest investigative honor and it's great having him here today. Peter, Peter, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Mark.

And then John Cipher, a good friend of mine, another incredible resume, 28-year career in the CIA, multiple jobs as a station chief deputy station chief known in the media for being an expert on Russia.

And most importantly, as we've said many times, he was one of my instructors in training.

So I always joke with him that he kind of birthed me. That's the right word.

And ultimately, any kind of success, but mostly failure is on my successes is on his shoulders. So anyway, John also having you here as well.

Sure. It's nice to be here without adult supervision. I think we can have some fun.

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