Smashed Plots, and Then Some

Former CIA analyst Aki Peritz revisits the 2006 terrorist plot to bring down transatlantic airliners, and Jeanne Meserve plumbs hype about Chinese academic espionage here

Dec 17, 2021

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This week: Jeff talks with former CIA counterterrorism analyst Aki Peritz about “the largest counterterrorism investigation in history,” which foiled a truly wild 2006 terror plot by Pakistani British Muslim extremists to bring down multiple transatlantic airliners.

And Jeanne talks with Anna Puglisi, Senior Fellow at Georgetown's Center for Security and…

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