This is I Spy.

The show from foreign policy.

Where spies tell their stories.

So we turned on sound masking in the apartment.

And I said to Joseph, you better have gotten like the golden nuggets of intelligence in this meeting

because I was about to die from boredom.

This was awful.

And he looked at me and he's like, I got nothing.

And I was like, what?

You must be kidding me.

He's like, safe, drag me to a local bar in his car where he can meet with his local mistress for two hours.

And they sat at the bar, groping each other, kissing each other while I sat uncomfortably.

Next to him thinking, I cannot believe what's going on right now.

From foreign policy, welcome to I Spy.

On each episode we get one former intelligence operative to tell the story of one operation.

I'm Margot Martin Dale.

Michelle Rigby-Assad joined the CIA just weeks after the attacks of September 11th.

She spent much of the next decade working on to cover in the Middle East.

Her story is unusual.

Rigby-Assad often worked with her Egyptian American spouse, Joseph.

Also a CIA officer, as part of a husband and wife spy team.

As a woman, she says she was often underestimated by both colleagues and informants.

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