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When you look at a group of people, random faces passing by at the mall or on your commute,

what do you see? Who do you think these people are? Random strangers, colleagues, friends?

Would you think for a second that any of them could be a spy? A government agent planted

strategically to reap information? Well, start believing in the unlikely. Because in today's

episode, we're entering the Dark Arena of Espionage, with former director of the Central Intelligence

Agency, Porter Goss.

The real threat to our security isn't a danger of bankruptcy. It is the danger of communist aggression.

If communism is allowed to absorb the free nations, one by one, then we would be isolated

from our sources of supply and attached from our friends. When United States President Harry Truman

spoke those words in 1952, it was at the start of the Cold War. For those of us who don't remember

that chunk of history reading from grade school, the Cold War was a long period of time where tensions

were growing more and more strained between the United States, its allies, and communist countries,

particularly what was formerly the Soviet Union. And that summation is putting it lightly.

Five years before making that speech in 1952, Truman created a government organization known

as the Central Intelligence Agency. It had had a few names before that, but by 1947,

it became those iconic three letters, the CIA. Pretty much from the moment that he took office,

President Truman had grown more and more suspicious of communist foreign nations and feared that

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