Tradecraft, Part 6

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🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 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 sixth round of insights from the world of espionage, Sophia Di Martino learns how to spy in a warzone, meets undercover journalists in Putin's Russia and investigates a CIA mole 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	Content warning. This episode of True Spies contains accounts of mental illness and medical
0:06.4	malpractice. Listen to discretion is advised.
0:10.2	Incoming transmission. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
0:16.7	This is True Spies. The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions
0:23.6	of all time. Week by week you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have
0:29.6	shaped the world we live in. True Spies. You'll meet the people who live life under
0:35.8	cover. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?
0:46.1	This is True Spies. The only reason I got the opportunity to know some things that other
0:51.3	people did it is because I did take the risks. I put myself in their environment and few
0:57.7	people did that. I'm Sophia DiMartina and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.
1:06.7	This is your second installment of True Spies Tradecraft. You might try to about something
1:18.1	less important than Putin and you get screwed and you might try it for the whole career
1:24.4	about very high corruption and you will be safe. The problem is that you never know and
1:32.3	there is no indicators that you can predict. Welcome to part six. You're about to learn
1:39.4	how to handle yourself in a variety of intelligence gathering scenarios. We begin in Afghanistan.
1:50.2	We're just terrified and then we landed at my location and I was standing in a desert
1:56.1	all by myself going what have I just got myself into. This is Douglas Laux from episode
2:03.9	92 of True Spies, Left of Boom. As a war zone CIA case officer working in Afghanistan,
2:12.7	Douglas was tasked with developing and recruiting sources within the local population. The aim
2:20.0	to find out who was supplying the Taliban with improvised explosive devices or IEDs.
2:28.2	To do this Douglas needed to follow each deadly explosion to its logical starting point,
2:34.3	the person who built or supplied the device. He needed to get left of boom.
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