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SpyTalk

Crisis and Confusion

This week's SpyTalk podcast features intelligence challenges from Europe to Afghanistan and beyond

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Jeff Stein
May 13, 2021
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A half century ago last month millions of Americans were glued to their TV sets watching the shocking and heartbreaking U.S. evacuation of Saigon as North Vietnamese tanks and infantry closed in on the capitol. As Marine Corps helicopters lifted hundreds of desperate South Vietnamese to safety, thousands more who had worked with the CIA and U.S. forces …

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