Tradecraft, Part 5

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The tools in a spy's arsenal are more varied than you might think. But they all come under one name: Tradecraft. In our fifth round of insights from the world of espionage, Sophia Di Martino encounters a dictator on the run, an undercover Hells Angel, a mole in the NSA and more in our annual digest of the series so far. Could YOU master the craft? From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Alex Burnard. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:02.0	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
0:06.0	This is True Spies.
0:09.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:15.0	Week by week you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
0:21.0	True Spies.
0:23.0	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:27.0	What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?
0:35.0	This is True Spies.
0:38.0	This case became something for me much more than winning or losing, succeeding or failing.
0:45.0	It turned into surviving. I was trying to survive it.
0:48.0	I'm Sophia DiMartino and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.
0:54.0	This is your fifth instalment of True Spies tradecraft.
1:05.0	I was extremely nervous because there were at least 20 white nationalists from the whole of Europe and I just felt a bit trapped.
1:14.0	In this fifth part of True Spies tradecraft, we dust off the files and look back at some of the best examples of spy techniques.
1:23.0	Methods and technologies more commonly known as tradecraft that have been used in the series so far.
1:31.0	And whether their motives are good or bad, selfish or selfless, it's tradecraft that will see spies achieve their objectives.
1:41.0	For this episode we start with the bad.
1:45.0	Bad Motives.
1:47.0	Why do people commit espionage?
1:50.0	What are the characteristics that make people turn traitor against their own country?
1:56.0	Well, we can spell it out for you.
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