Fire and Ice

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s edition of the SpyTalk podcast, Jeff Stein goes deep on the CIA’s looming eviction from Afghanistan with Lisa Curtis, a longtime former CIA, State Department and White House National Security Council expert on the region. And then co-host Jeanne Meserve conducts a lively interview with a former senior CIA and NSA analyst, Alma Katsu, about her new, post-government-service thriller, Red Widow, which features a gutsy female spy heroine. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Love this podcast?
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0:17.0	SpyTalk, a podcast at the intersection of intelligence,
0:20.0	foreign policy, national security and military operations
0:24.0	with Jeff Stein and Jean Miserve.
0:28.0	Hi there, I'm Jeff Stein.
0:31.0	And I'm Jean Miserve and welcome to the second edition
0:34.0	of the SpyTalk podcast.
0:36.0	We're going to be talking about Russia and Afghanistan
0:39.0	and we're also going to talk about what it's like to work
0:42.0	in a US intelligence agency.
0:45.0	When you think of what CIA does,
0:47.0	you think of case officers,
0:49.0	the guys who go out and find the foreigners
0:52.0	who have access to information that we need
0:55.0	and they try to convince them to share those secrets
0:58.0	with the US government.
0:59.0	Well those people in order to do their job,
1:01.0	they're trying to be really good manipulators,
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