Legacy of Ashes: The Secret History of the CIA | Tim Weiner | Ep. 167

The Team House

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Tim Weiner is a national security journalist who made six reporting tours running with the muj in Afghanistan, 1987 (Soviet occupation) to 2001 (American occupation) and war/conflict/crisis reporting from Sudan, Pakistan, Liberia, Haiti, and the Philippines. He won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on secret CIA/DOD programs and National Book Award for LEGACY OF ASHES. Signature song as rock and roll band leader: "Secret Agent Man." He is also the author of Enemies: The History of the FBI and The Folly and Glory. Legacy of Ashes can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/0307389006/ Today's sponsor: BUB's Naturals https://www.BUBSNATURALS.com/ Use the code "TEAMHOUSE" for 20% your order! Pick up their collagen protein, MCT oil, and apple cider vinegar gummies today! BUBS Donates 10% of all profits to charity in Glens honor, starting with the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation GO TO: https://www.BUBSNATURALS.com/?discount=TEAMHOUSE or Use the code "TEAMHOUSE" at checkout for 20% off your order! FEEL GREAT. DO GOOD. Words that we live by. To help support the show and for all bonus content including: -2 bonus episodes per month -Access to ALL bonus segments with our guests -Ad Free audio feed Subscribe to our Patreon! 👇 https://www.patreon.com/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Social Media: The Team House Instagram: https://instagram.com/the.team.house?utm_medium=copy_link The Team House Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTeamHousePod Jack’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/jackmcmurph?utm_medium=copy_link Jack’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackmurphyrgr?s=21 Dave’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_parke?s=21 Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSample Want to sponsor the show? Email: 👇 [email protected] #legacyofashes #cia #covertoperations

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0:00.0	Special Operations, Covert Ox, Espionage, the Team House, with your host. espionage. The team house.
0:14.0	With your hopes, Jack Murphy and David Park.
0:22.0	Hi everyone good evening I'm Jack Murphy here with David Park this is episode
0:28.1	167 of the team house welcome to our new set hope you like this. We really appreciate you joining us tonight and joining our guest, Tim Weiner.
0:37.0	He is a national security journalist with extensive experience reporting around the world certain hot spots like
0:43.7	Afghanistan during the Mujah Dean times where else Tim
0:49.4	Liberia Philippines you know all the gardens, Libya, and Jack, I mean, you know, the Liberian Civil War,
0:57.0	Sudan, during the war, Haiti, Cuba, you know, everywhere American interests extend that I could get to.
1:08.0	I got to.
1:10.0	And Tim is also the author of Legacy of Ashes, a history of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1:15.4	He's also the author of enemies, a history of the FBI.
1:19.0	And The Glory and Folly is your latest book? The Folly and the glory about the history of political warfare between Russia and the United States.
1:27.2	Which goes on every day, every hour.
1:30.7	And you're currently working on, we'll get to this a little later, a sequel to
1:34.0	Legacy of Ashes. Your book, your first one goes more or less up to what 2003
1:40.3	2007? Okay, yeah.
1:43.0	And you, the sequel is going to cover the War on Terror years.
1:46.0	The 21st century.
1:48.0	Mm-hmm.
1:49.0	So I really wanted to jump right into talking first about you and sort of your back story and what was the pathway that you took into national security journalism?
2:01.5	How did you end up there there and if you could share some
2:04.6	sage stories about Brooklyn you once told me that you paid a hundred and fifty dollars
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