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Spy Talk, a podcast at the intersection of intelligence,

foreign policy, national security,

and military operations with Jeff Stein and Jean Miserve.

Hi there, I'm Jeff Stein. Welcome to Spy Talk.

And I'm Jean Miserve, great to have you with us.

Well, there's been a lot of developments on the intelligence front.

Of course, most of them rotating on the dire situation in Afghanistan.

We learned of the secret visit of CIA director Bill Burns to Doha

for meeting with the Taliban de facto leader Abdelgadi Baradhar.

We also learned about CIA and special operations team slipping into Afghanistan

and rescuing people.

Speaking of the nightmare in Kabul,

I talked this week with the Washington Post Craig Whitlock

about his new and stunning book,

The Afghanistan Papers,

A Secret History of the War.

Based on scores of interviews of his own,

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