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I Spy

The Skeptic

I Spy

Foreign Policy

History, News, Society & Culture

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Long before Joe Weisberg created the award-winning television show The Americans, he served in the CIA. His brief period in the agency informed story lines in the show and helped shape Weisberg's views on espionage. Eventually, he came to believe that spying does more harm than good in the world.




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0:00.0

I'm Benjamin Fitton from the Walker Mungus, and this podcast is sponsored by Prime Video,

0:06.8

where you can stream new Amazon original series The Confession.

0:11.8

In January 1992, devoted mother of two Patricia Hall, vanished from a small town in Yorkshire

0:19.0

without a trace.

0:21.3

Early on in the investigation, Patricia's husband Keith becomes a prime suspect, but

0:26.6

no progress is made, the case seems to go cold.

0:31.2

The Confession is a true crime documentary series exploring Patricia Hall's disappearance.

0:37.5

The story unfolds the archive recordings from the investigation, interviews with Patricia's

0:43.2

family, the police and Keith, who was accused of having something to do with his wife's

0:49.0

disappearance.

0:50.0

What do you think really happened?

0:53.2

The Confession, an Amazon original available now, only on Prime Video.

0:59.9

This is I Spy, a show from foreign policy, where spies tell their stories.

1:15.6

So I was sent down to the basement of headquarters to a sort of a large room that looked kind

1:21.5

of like a hair salon, and I was put into a disguise.

1:26.8

I remember thinking it was all, I didn't quite buy it because the whole disguise was to

1:32.6

slick my hair back, glue a false mustache in my upper lip and give me a pair of glasses.

1:37.9

So to me, it seemed completely unconvincing and I just looked like myself wearing glasses

1:43.9

pretty much.

1:44.9

I went upstairs and I got my lunch, I sat down at the table, and I got a few weird glances

1:51.2

and nobody said hello to me.

1:53.7

And I just waited and waited and finally, a thing to launch, I said, you guys know it's

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