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Taking five
Hello friends, I am writing to tell you that I’m taking this week off.
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Sasha Ingber
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Spy games and strongmen: Trump, Putin, Zelensky, and US intel
There was a lot to discuss today with Olga Lautman today, a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis.
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Olga Lautman
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1:05:12
On SpyCast: Escaping Tehran with the CIA
This week, we dropped a vintage episode of SpyCast.
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Sasha Ingber
Undercover intel officers outed today
Something wild just happened within the intelligence community.
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Sasha Ingber
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4:25
Being approached and offered money for a government document
Here is a weird behind-the-scenes story: In July, I got an email from a person claiming to be “Sarah Turner,” a staff member at the conservative outlet…
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Sasha Ingber
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9:42
What’s next for Ukraine, with former senior CIA operations officer Ed Bogan
Few Americans know Ukraine like Ed Bogan.
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Ed Bogan
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1:10:37
Remembering Afghanistan's collapse four years ago
Outside of the Afghan embassy in Washington, where the building is slowly falling apart.
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Sasha Ingber
12:18
On SpyCast: Catching an Iranian-American Missile Broker
Iranian-American Reza Olangian left behind his life in Silicon Valley to spy for Tehran.
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Sasha Ingber
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Exclusive: Redaction fears over the ‘GEC Files’
Once tasked with exposing Russian and Chinese influence operations, now the identities of GEC staff, intel officers, and the young influencers they…
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Sasha Ingber
8:04
Outside the FBI’s Washington, DC field office
It was quiet outside of the FBI’s Washington, D.C.
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Sasha Ingber
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8:03
The future of intelligence with Sue Gordon
The former top intel officer talked about Russia, China, how she considered running for president, and fighting cancer.
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Sue Gordon
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1:04:42
Exclusive: FOIA office clash inside the State Department
A special FOIA office — inside the State Department’s Office of Diplomatic Security — was eliminated a few weeks ago in the summer purge.
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