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From Wondery, I'm Charlie Hicksons, Spy novelist, actor, comedian, and this is The Spy Who.

Thank you for joining us for our final episode of The Spy Who colluded with Castro.

The real art of espionage is to stay hidden.

And Arna Montes remained hidden in plain sight for 17 years.

Working at the Defence Intelligence Agency, the nerve centre of US military strategy,

Anna shared its secrets with its closest enemy, Castro's Cuba.

Eventually, her actions earned her the title,

The Most Dangerous Females Spy in US history. From a young age,

the army was a defining part of Arna's life. Her controlling father was a US army colonel. Her

brother and sister both became FBI agents, with her sister Lucy specifically tasked with

finding Cuban spies in the US.

Little did she know there was one on the opposite side of the dinner table.

To hear how her story unfolded, make sure you've listened to episodes one to three of this season.

In this episode, I'm going to talk with author and investigative journalist Jim Popkin.

He wrote the book, Codename Blue Ren, the true story of America's most dangerous female spy, and the sister she betrayed.

Jim knows the world of Anna Montes.

He knows the family, he knows the agents who worked with Anna, the ones who trusted her,

the ones who eventually took her to her sentencing. I want to understand how Anna was able to work

undercover for so long, how she could sit across the dinner table from her family and loved ones

and not crack, and whether he thinks the Cubans really cared for at all.

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