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How to Recruit a Spy

Legendary former CIA officer Jim Lawler offers a mini-course on the tricks of the trade

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Jul 30, 2024
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(Collage by Jack Murphy/The Team House Podcast)

James Lawler was a secret agent man for the CIA. In fact, he’s kind of a legendary secret agent man, for cobbling together an operation that brought down the nuclear-weapons-smuggling ring run by the notorious Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan.

Since then Lawler has become a successful spy novelist, with his fir…

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