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As an analyst, there was this feeling of, I think, a profound anxiety that we were going to get something wrong.

And working on Syria, we felt a lot of pressure to write honest and objective analysis,

but also to not make mistakes and to give the president and those around him the best possible information.

One of the key themes I looked at in the book, both from the CIA standpoint, but especially from a

serious standpoint, is how do people behave in situations where they don't really have a lot

of controller agency in a setting where you're sort of beholden to these larger forces that seem to be

dictating policy or ripping the country apart. It was definitely one of the things I was most

interested in exploring in this book.

David Nukloski is the author of the new novel, Tamaska Station. David is also a former CIA

analyst. I just sat down to talk to David about his novel, his career, and the issue he worked on

that led him to write his new book. We'll be right back after a break. I'm Michael Morrell,

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