The Counterspy

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Foreign Policy

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🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The CIA thought it had thoroughly penetrated Cuban intelligence, with scores of agents and informants in Havana, until one day a Cuban officer walked into the U.S. Embassy in Vienna and broke the news—the agents were actually double agents. James Olson was the CIA station chief in Vienna at the time. He would go on to serve as the agency’s head of counterintelligence. 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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0:12.0	My name's Gil Grissom.
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0:15.0	Everything from CSI.
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0:17.0	To police intercepts.
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0:28.8	Pluto TV.
0:31.5	This is I Spy. the show from foreign policy where spies tell their stories.
0:37.0	What we learned from the defector started a course in our initial debriefings in Vienna and it was a blockbuster.
0:51.0	He told us that all the Cuban agents that the CIA had in Cuba had been
0:57.7	controlled from the beginning by Cuban intelligence. And he actually gave us a
1:02.2	number. He said we have 38 double agents
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