True Spies Classic: The Sociopathic Spy | CIA

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jim Lawler is one of the CIA's most successful recruiters of foreign spies. But even he had to start somewhere. In this classic episode of True Spies, Vanessa Kirby joins Jim on his first foreign posting. His mission? To enlist a crucial intelligence asset for the USA. To do it, he'll stop at nothing to manipulate, subvert, and seduce his target. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, true spies listeners.
0:07.3	Welcome back.
0:08.7	You're joining us as we venture into the vaults to revisit some of your favorite episodes from our collection.
0:15.5	We hope you enjoy this classic true spies rendezvous.
0:19.6	We think it's well worth catching up with.
0:22.9	This is True Spies, the Classics, from Spyscape Studios.
0:30.6	Incoming transmission.
0:33.1	Welcome.
0:34.9	Welcome.
0:35.9	Welcome to true spies.
0:38.3	Week by week, mission by mission, you'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:49.3	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world. What do they know?
0:56.0	What are their skills?
0:58.0	And what would you do in their position?
1:02.0	This is True Spies.
1:05.0	So here we are in this restaurant, and I'm thinking,
1:08.0	there's no way I can convince this woman to change her mind.
1:11.6	And then I heard her say something under her breath.
1:14.3	And by this time, she was crying.
1:16.4	I could see tears.
1:17.7	And I leaned in close, and I said, what did you say?
1:21.3	And she said, I can do this.
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