“So, I’m a Spy & I’d like to Write a Book…”

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Nada Bakos is a former CIA analyst and Chief Targeting Officer, Mark Fallon was an NCIS Special Agent and Director of the Criminal Investigative Task Force at Guantanamo, Frank Snepp is a former chief analyst of North Vietnamese Strategy for the CIA during the Vietnam War. Mark Zaid - one of the nation’s top national security lawyers - joins Andrew to help break the issue down. This week’s guests discuss their motivations, frustrations, victories and defeats in publishing, “The Targeter: My Life in the CIA Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House”; “Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon and US Government Conspired to Torture”; and, “Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s End Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam.”

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0:00.0	Hey, Spycast listeners, I'm Maria Varmazis, host of another N2K podcast called T-Minus Space
0:10.7	Daily.
0:11.7	I'm a big fan of Andrew Hammond and Spycast.
0:16.2	That voice, right?
0:18.2	I love the world of spies and intelligence, and I bet you do too.
0:22.1	That's why I know you'll also love our show T-Minus Space Daily.
0:28.0	If you want to unravel the world of space mysteries, T-Minus Space Daily gives you the latest
0:34.4	from across the space industry around the world and into the cosmos.
0:40.2	If you're looking to separate the signal from the noise and stay current on what's happening
0:44.4	in space, from science and technology to business and espionage, then join me every day for T-Minus
0:52.1	Space Daily.
0:53.9	We are T-Minus.
0:55.8	Now sit back, relax, and back to you, Andrew.
1:08.7	This episode of Spycast is supported by Code Comments, an original podcast from Red Hat.
1:14.9	In each episode, Jamie recounts the stories of experienced technologists from across the
1:20.1	industry who share what they've learned from implementing new technology.
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1:32.5	Right now, Code Comments is a couple of episodes into their second season, which so far has
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