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The World of Global Jihad: A Conversation with Morten Storm

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

SPY Historian Vince Houghton talked to Morten Storm, who, after a decade of jihadi life, not only repudiated extremism but, in a quest for atonement, became a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. He is now in hiding, fearful that some vengeful jihadist will try to kill him for his work with Western intelligence. However, this won’t stop him from providing SpyCast with his insight and expertise on global terrorism. On a regular basis, SpyCast will send questions to Morten, he will record his answers, and we will post them here. To be a part of this conversation, send your questions for Morten Storm to spycast@spymuseum.org. We will take the best questions and send them to Morten for the next installment. Get the book: http://www.spymuseumstore.org/agen-storm-book.html#.Vz3lp_krIdU

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hunters. security today. Hi and welcome to Spycast. From the secret files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

1:05.0

I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator.

1:09.0

Every week, the museum brings you interesting conversations with authors,

1:13.2

scholars, and practitioners who live

1:16.2

in the world of global espionage.

1:18.7

Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence.

1:23.3

Today's podcast will be slightly different from what we normally do.

1:27.3

Instead of a sit-down interview with a guest, I sent questions to our guests and recorded

1:31.3

his answers. The reason is that our guests could not be here in the museum where we traditionally record spy cast.

1:38.0

He is in hiding from jihadists who have sworn to kill him at the first opportunity.

1:42.0

His name is Morton Storm, and for

1:44.6

those who do not know of him, this is his story. Born in the 1970s in raised in Denmark,

1:50.4

Morton Storm's delinquents stumble into adulthood was a tale of violence, drug-taking, gang membership, armed robbery, and imprisonment.

1:58.0

Then he came across a book on the life of the Prophet Muhammad in the library, and he read it for hours. He became attracted

2:04.8

to an extremist version of Islam. It's certain he's offering a structure that

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