The Boiling Frog | CIA

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4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

At the peak of his career, Jack Devine was one of the world's top spymasters. But everybody starts somewhere. Vanessa Kirby follows Jack to Chile on his first overseas assignment. It's 1971, and the CIA is determined to undermine the country's socialist government. But as a military coup plot begins to gather steam, he's about to learn an important lesson - be careful what you wish for. Could YOU stay out of hot water? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Morgan Childs. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in that position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.0	They were releasing their rockets. We had no idea where they were going to fly right over the embassy with these rockets.
0:40.4	There were some tense moments there. A lot of the folks were pushed into a vault
0:44.8	because there was concern that if the bomb misses, you know, it wasn't meant for the Americans, but we were vulnerable.
0:50.4	Episode 56, The Boiling Frog.
1:02.0	I'm Jack Devine and I was the acting and associate deputy director of CIA.
1:07.6	I joined the CIA in the late 60s and spent over 32 years in the CIA.
1:14.4	Jack Devine built a career being in the right place at exactly the right time.
1:20.8	He ran the counter-narcotic centre and oversaw the capture of drug lord Pablo Escobar.
1:28.0	He went to dinner parties at the home of Aldrich Ames.
1:33.2	Before Ames became one of the KGB's most notorious double agents.
1:37.6	Ever heard of a little operation called Charlie Wilson's War?
1:42.0	More like Jack Devine's War.
1:45.6	Jack ran the largest covert action campaign of the Cold War.
1:50.0	He equipped the Afghan Majahaddin with Stinem missiles,
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