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Guaranteed Human.

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I'm John Seifer.

And I'm Jerry O'Shea.

We have over 60 years of experience as clandestine officers in the CIA,

serving in high-risk areas all around the world.

And part of our job was creating conspiracies to deceive our adversaries.

Now we're going to use that experience to investigate the conspiracy theories everyone's talking about,

as well as some you may not have heard.

Could they be true, or are we being manipulated? We'll find out now on mission implausible so we at mission implausible are doing

something a little bit different today our episode is a joint production with the steady state

sentinel podcast the steady state's a nonpartisan nonprofit made up of former U.S. national

security officials created to defend constitutional democracy, the rule of law, and national

security from threats at home and abroad. And our guest today is perfect for both a steady state

and mission plausible. Today we're joined by Andy Weber, one of the most experienced American officials

in the world of nuclear, chemical, and biological threat reduction. Andy spent decades in U.S. national security,

including as an Assistant Secretary of Defense. He's been sought after in recent weeks as discussion

swirls around Iran's enriched uranium and whether or not we can do anything about it.

So before the senior titles, Andy was a young American diplomat in post-Soviet Kazakhstan at a moment when the world was only beginning to understand

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