Tradecraft, Part 7

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🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 36 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 seventh round of insights from the world of espionage, Sophia Di Martino revisits an audacious gambit in Iraq, evades surveillance behind the Iron Curtain, and learns how to create a convincing cover story in Canada. From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Alex Burnard. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:02.0	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. You'll meet the people we live in. True spies.
0:23.0	You'll meet the people who live life under cover.
0:26.0	What do they know?
0:29.0	What are their skills?
0:31.0	And what would you do in their position.
0:35.0	This is true spies.
0:38.0	The whole point of all this submarine intelligence gathering
0:42.0	was to prevent a repeat of Pearl Harbor in a nuclear age.
0:45.8	I'm Sophia D. Martino and this is True Spies from Spies Scape Studios.
0:51.2	This is your seventh installment of True Spies Tradecraft.
0:57.0	The stakes were extremely high. They knew that this mission is the first step
1:06.7	towards a war that was imminent and they were at that moment now when they had to
1:12.3	attack.
1:14.0	This week we're diving into the archive to revisit some of the best examples of
1:18.7	spycraft carried out by our operatives over the last year.
1:23.2	Whether it's a moment of individual skill and bravery, a large-scale operation that took months
1:28.9	of planning, or a bolt of inspiration that changed the course of history. These are spy skills, otherwise known as
1:37.0	tradecraft at its finest.
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