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🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Welcome to Season 2 of I Spy. On this episode, CIA officer Richard Holm is sent to Congo in 1965 to organize local agents against an anti-government rebellion. But a fiery plane crash leaves him in hostile territory, fighting for his life. This season, there’s more I Spy with I Spy Plus. Get ad-free I Spy episodes and access to weekly bonus episodes right in your favorite podcast app, plus more exclusive espionage content. Subscribe to I Spy Plus today at foreignpolicy.com/ispy. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is I spy, the show from foreign policy where spies tell their stories.
0:07.0	Well, we went in and I could see right away that we were going way faster than you wanted.
0:21.0	We hit the ground slid, we finally cracked up against a tree. The wing broke and I got a splash of ignited fuel across my left front.
0:35.0	And one pulled me away and we went as far as we could from the plane
0:41.0	because we were afraid that if the cyba's had seen it come down or anybody,
0:45.9	they might have come over and we didn't know whether they were friendly or not.
0:49.1	I don't know how far we got because I was in pretty bad shape at that point.
0:54.0	From foreign policy,
1:00.0	welcome to I-SPI.
1:02.0	Real-life spy stories told by the people who were there.
1:06.0	Each week we feature one former intelligence operative from somewhere around the world describing one operation.
1:13.9	I'm Margot Martindale.
1:16.0	On today's show, CIA Officer Richard Holm
1:20.9	is sent to the Congo to organize local agents against the rebellion. home is
1:23.4	local agents against a rebellion.
1:25.4	But a fiery plane crash leaves him in hostile territory
1:29.8	fighting for his life.
1:31.8	The year is 1965.
1:35.0	The U.S. and the Soviet Union
1:38.0	are fighting proxy wars around the globe.
1:42.0	Congo had gained independence from Belgium just five years
1:45.9	earlier but the old colonial power remained involved in Ganglese affairs
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