Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Disguises, double agents, dead drops, diplomatic cover, much of spycraft is familiar from fiction,

but spooks also run whole companies, fronts that yield seriously good intelligence.

We find the spies in our corporate midst.

And Mike Hoare was an accountant. Mad Mike Hoare was a soldier of fortune, who wasn't all that concerned with the fortune.

We look back on his mission to rid Congo of communists alongside a motley mix of mercenaries.

But first...

The next few days will be crucial to America's presidential race.

Tomorrow, the fourth contest in the Democratic Party primaries will take place in South Carolina.

And three days after that, there will be an important

milestone, Super Tuesday, in which 14 states vote for their preferred candidate for the Democratic

nomination. That might give one of them a lasting lead. At this stage, though, there's one

candidate who's clearly on top, and it's got plenty of Democrats worried.

Party, party, ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States. it who's clearly on top, and it's got plenty of Democrats worried.

Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States, Senator Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders is really a political gadfly.

John Fasman is our Washington correspondent.

He's been in Congress for decades. He doesn't have much of a legislative record.

He hasn't sponsored many bills.

And he's always preferred haranguing to legislating.

We are bringing our people together around an agenda that works for the working people of this country, not the 1%.

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