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That's spycloud.com slash cyberwire and we thank spy cloud for sponsoring our show. Hi and welcome to Spycast. From the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. I'm Dr. Vince Hote. at the Museum

Museum in Washington, D.C. I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the museum's historian and

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

scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.

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

So we don't often have fiction authors on SpyCast, but today we'll make the rare exception for Alex Finley,

who is the author of Victor in the rubble, a satire about the CIA in the War on Terror.

She is herself a former operations officer, or case officer,

for CIA and a journalist.

You can find her articles on slate, reducturous,

and funnier die, among others.

You can find more of her writing on her blog which is at Alex Z Finley.com

and Twitter at Alex Z Finley.

She's just posted a very funny six-part series on the IC

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