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SpyTalk, a podcast at the intersection of intelligence, foreign policy,

national security, and military operations with Jeff Stein and Jean Miserve.

Hello and welcome to another episode of SpyTalk.

I'm Jeff Stein, my co-host Jean Miserve is off this week.

We're devoting this entire episode to a new and startling book

by a former senior CIA operations officer, Douglas London.

Doug London, who grew up in New York City,

spent much of his 34 years in the CIA in North Africa,

the Middle East, and South Asia,

from the shores of Tripoli and Beirut

to the mountains and plains of Afghanistan and beyond.

Mostly he was recruiting foreigners to spy for the CIA

or managing spying operations.

Appropriately then his new book is called The Recruiter,

spying in the lost art of American intelligence.

But wait, the lost art?

London has written a scorching portrait

...