Foxtrot in Kandahar, Part 1: Snakes and Lightning | CIA

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In late 2001, veteran CIA Officer Duane Evans deployed to Afghanistan as part of the US response to 9/11. This is his story. In Part 1, we find Duane as he swears vengeance against Al Qaeda - and moves mountains to get himself to the heart of the action. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Frank Palmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.9	This is True Spies, the podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
1:15.4	Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
1:16.7	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
1:20.7	What do they know?
1:22.2	What are their skills?
1:24.1	And what would you do in their position?
1:27.4	I'm Rihanna Needs, and this is True Spies from Spyscape Studios.
1:36.8	Fox Trot in Kandahar, Part 1.
1:40.2	Snakes and Lightning.
1:45.6	It's early morning in Washington, D.C., a CIA officer, freshly home from his latest overseas
1:52.6	assignment, sits outside a cafe opposite a looming, brutalist block of concrete and glass.
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