This episode of True Spies contains descriptions of violence including torture that some listeners may find distressing

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Week by week mission by mission you'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations

You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world

What do they know what are their skills and what would you do in their position?

This is true spies while he was in prison in China and one of these

Intermin camps authorities told him we are going to hold you in this place and

And we are going to hold your mum and your loved ones in these places and torture them unless you agree to work and spy for us

This is true spies

Episode 60 the destroyed man

Behind closed doors a reluctant spy is made

He said that once he agreed to spy for them he was allowed more freedoms than other people being held there were allowed

You'd be allowed to go into the interrogation areas after the interrogations have been done and you talked about the fact that

men were often beaten

with

Electrical cords that had been stripped of the plastic

Exsteriors and were just bear wires and they were whipped with these bear wires till they were blood all over the walls the

Walk you will carry out brings no satisfaction

No glamour he eventually was released from this area with a clear understanding that he would be working for the

Government he was given a handler who managed him and then he was sent back to his hometown and he

Talked about how over time he began to report on family members on friends and a number of them ended up disappearing being taken and put in these camps

The life that awaits him holds no promise of adventure or opportunity

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