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Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Six months after the 9/11 attacks, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly initiated a straightforward, yet audacious, antiterrorist plan to be implemented in the Big Apple, dispatching a vast network of undercover officers and informants to track suspected terrorists. In Enemies Within, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman for Associated Press reveal the effectiveness of the domestic spying plan. Based on hundreds of previously unpublished New York Police Department internal memos and exclusive interviews with intelligence sources, including 25-year FBI veteran Don Borelli who assisted with the book, they found that many of those strategies aren’t even close to being useful, functional, or successful. As Assistant Special Agent in Charge in the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), Borelli was responsible for top investigations and counterterrorism missions that spanned the globe. Join Apuzzo and Borelli for an unbridled look at the breathtaking race to avert a second devastating terrorist attack on American soil. This event took place September 26, 2013. Get the book: http://www.spymuseumstore.org/enemy-within-book.html#.Vz3rRfkrIdU

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0:00.0

You're listening to the CyberWireriefing from the International Spy Museum.

0:20.0

I'm Mark Stout, the Museum's historian.

0:22.0

Here at the Museum we get the most interesting I'm Mark Stout, the museum's historian.

0:23.0

Here at the museum, we get the most interesting authors,

0:25.0

including journalists, scholars, former spies, and intelligence officers

0:29.0

coming in to speak with our visitors and answer questions about their latest works

0:32.0

dealing with espionage, intelligence, and other national security issues.

0:36.0

Please join me in listening to another of our selected hour-long author debriefings.

0:41.0

Good evening. Welcome to the International Spy Museum.

0:45.0

I'm Peter Ernest, the director, and we are delighted to have you all here.

0:51.3

I must say this, the subject we're discussing could not probably have come at a better

0:56.3

time in that I think there probably isn't anyone in America who isn't discussing

1:02.0

the either Edward Snowden or the NSA coverage or

1:07.0

Manning or whatever. In other words this whole issue of intelligence coverage of Americans, of all stripe, the concerns about terrorism.

1:20.2

We now have the recent incident in Nairobi, which in which Americans may or may not have participated.

1:28.6

We don't know.

1:30.0

It has not been confirmed.

1:32.2

So I really am pleased, very pleased to bring Mad Apuso here who has

1:38.3

written the book, by the way he will be available for signing, enemies within inside

1:42.3

NYPD's secret Spying Unit

1:44.8

and Ben Laden's final plot against America.

1:50.4

Matt is the co-author of the book and he has been an investigator reporter for the

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