The Lamb, the Lion, and the Fox - Snap Classic

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Amaryllis was fast on track to become an established journalist when her mentor was kidnapped and killed by a terrorist group. She decided she had to give up the transparency of journalism if she wanted to truly help curb terror, and instead joined the shadow world of the CIA. But the shadow world had its own cost.

A big thanks to Amaryllis Fox for sharing her story with us. You can buy her book on Knopf, Amazon, or anywhere books are sold.

Produced by Nikka Singh, original score by Leon Morimoto

Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Snap Classic - Season 10, Episode 31

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0:00.0	Snap, judgment, studios.
0:08.4	Snap, classic.
0:15.9	Okay, so, way before Snap, I work in Malaysia rather than junior diplomat, my job is to
0:28.9	make what's a happy talk to the government officials, the politicians, the media, and I like
0:35.1	them.
0:36.1	I like everybody, it's fun.
0:38.6	And I ask them the most American question there is.
0:43.8	What do you do for a living?
0:45.9	I pretend to be interested in their answers, I nod my head up and down.
0:51.0	When we switch, my vapor turn to act interested in my nonsense.
0:55.7	Usually, there's going to be cocktails, I like cocktails.
1:00.8	Sometimes though, why is they get crossed?
1:03.8	Or maybe it's someone's idea of humor.
1:07.6	Whatever, occasionally, I receive an actual paper invitation to a spook show.
1:16.8	They don't call it that, but that's what it is.
1:21.6	See the spies?
1:23.6	They don't just go to parties.
1:26.5	Sometimes they have their own.
1:27.9	Because Malaysia's got the oil well, it's got the ports, it's got national banks, it's
1:34.2	not too close to China, but it's close, it's got the defense and the arms agreements.
1:40.0	And international Islamic organizations, both above board and clandestine, find a great
1:47.1	place to do business.
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