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Slow Burn

Introducing: I Spy

Slow Burn

Slate Audio

Politics, Society & Culture, History, News, Documentary

4.625.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We're excited to introduce you to I Spy, a production of Foreign Policy. Each week on I Spy, a former intelligence operative from somewhere around the world tells the story of a single mission. They've featured guests from the CIA, Mossad, MI5, the KGB, and more. The host is three-time Emmy winner Margo Martindale, who played Claudia the KGB handler on FX’s hit show The Americans.  In this first episode of season 3, DEA special agent Steve Murphy describes his role in the hunt for narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar in Colombia in the early 1990s. This is part one of a two-part episode. To hear part 2, make sure to look for I Spy wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Josh Levine, host of Season 4 of Slow Burn.

0:04.3

I'm here to introduce you to another show you might like.

0:07.7

It's called I Spy, and it's a production of foreign policy.

0:12.6

Each week on I Spy, a former intelligence operative from somewhere around the world tells the

0:17.5

story of a single mission.

0:19.9

They featured guests from the CIA, Mossad, MI5, the KGB, and more.

0:26.3

The host is three time Emmy winner Margo Martin-Dale, who played Claudia the KGB handler on FX's

0:32.8

hit show The Americans.

0:35.1

In the episode you're about to hear, DEA Special Agent Steve Murphy describes his role

0:40.4

in the hunt for Narco Terrorist Pablo Escobar in Colombia in the early 1990s.

0:46.4

This is part one of a two-part episode, kicks off their third season.

0:51.1

To hear part two, make sure to look for I Spy wherever you get your podcasts.

0:58.5

This is I Spy, a show from foreign policy, where spies tell their stories.

1:10.4

Here I am, this white green go down there.

1:12.2

I don't blend in.

1:14.8

And I find out where the lead case agents on the investigation of the Medi-Cartel, primarily

1:18.9

Pablo Escobar.

1:21.0

The guys told me right off the bat, just so you know there's a price tag on your head.

1:24.9

$300,000.

1:25.9

Pablo Escobar has put a bounty on us just simply because we're DE agents.

1:31.0

Now that will also cause you to stop and think, hey I just got here.

1:35.5

Give me a chance before you kill me you know.

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