This podcast, it's a Costerton Touchstone production.

Welcome to Dead Drop, What Makes a Spy Tick.

I'm John Kiriaku.

Before we get down to it, I want to ask a small favor.

That is, if you're enjoying the podcast. If that's the case,

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One of our goals with Dead Drop is to give you the deepest possible perspective on the world of

spying and what makes any spy tick.

It's like living life with an additional layer to it, a layer only you

and a handful of other people know about. Understandably, therefore, a significant influencer

of any spy is other spies, and what happened to them as a result of their spying? The perils are

always part of a spy's internal calculus.

That is, the perils we know about and the perils we don't. Those are the ones that will invariably bite you.

In this episode, we're going to take a momentary break from what makes this spy tick to explore a spy whose story always spoke to me personally. William

Francis Buckley's story always, well, it fairly shouted at me. Bill Buckley, you see, was a very

good spy who came to a terrible ending, and it didn't have to be. For a spy, Bill's story

is a valuable object lesson. Knowing his story and his

fate were essential elements of how I understood my working environment. I knew Bill's story.

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