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The Spy Who
Wondery
4.6 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
After a bust-up with the FBI over Pearl Harbor, Duško Popov finds himself at a crossroads. Does he seek a Hollywood ending with his movie star girlfriend or risk death by returning to Lisbon to win back the trust of his Nazi spymasters?
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| 0:00.0 | December 1941, New York City. |
| 0:12.0 | In the FBI field office in the Rockefeller Center, Dushko Popov examines his fingernails. |
| 0:19.0 | He's here to debrief the FBI about his trip to see the Abfair in Rio de Janeiro, |
| 0:24.6 | but he's still fuming about how they failed to act on his warnings about a possible attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| 0:32.5 | FBI field office chief Sam Foxworth presses him again for more details about what happened in Rio. |
| 0:39.6 | Let's go over this again. |
| 0:41.9 | The Abver are sending you radio equipment via a steamboat from Rio. |
| 0:47.3 | That steamboat is going to arrive next month in Toronto and you're going there to collect the equipment. |
| 0:52.8 | But you don't know anything about |
| 0:55.1 | its captain, not the vaguest description of what he looks like. Popov shrugs. The British want him to |
| 1:01.9 | withhold that information. MI6 plans to arrest the steamboat captain and turn him into a British agent, |
| 1:09.2 | and it doesn't want the FBI interfering with that plan. |
| 1:13.4 | Perhaps I can provide that detail when he arrives. |
| 1:17.9 | Now, I have a question for you. |
| 1:21.3 | What happened with Pearl Harbor? |
| 1:23.9 | Foxworth frowns. |
| 1:26.2 | It's been a week since Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor forced America into World War II. |
| 1:32.3 | We got attacked. That's what happened. |
| 1:35.3 | Pop off scowls. |
| 1:37.3 | Four months ago, I gave you intelligence that the Japanese were going to attack. |
| 1:43.3 | Why wasn't that information acted upon? |
| 1:46.0 | I don't know how you do things back in Yugoslavia, |
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