The Art Dealer

I Spy

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4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Amaryllis Fox worked for a decade as an undercover agent at the CIA, cultivating arms merchants and preventing them from selling fissile material to terrorist groups. On this episode, she describes courting one particular dealer whose ties to terrorist groups in Indonesia and elsewhere raised alarm bells at Langley. Fox has changed some of the details of her story to avoid exposing the agency's assets and methods. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is I Spy. the show from foreign policy where spies tell their stories.
0:37.0	I... I said to him, you know, if one of these groups that you sell to were to detonate one of these
0:50.4	devices, that would create such fear globally and that environments of fear create
0:58.8	more autocratic governments, not fewer. And you know he at some stage said if only there was something I could do
1:07.5	about it and there was this very pregnant pause where I think he and I both knew that there was and
1:17.0	that this was going to be the moment that we would talk about it.
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