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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

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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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