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The Man Who Loved Spying

Former senior CIA officer Doug London raises unsettling issues about the CIA in his new book, 'The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence'

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Sep 09, 2021
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In a riveting new memoir, former senior CIA officer Doug London celebrates a career in espionage, but in a lengthy conversation with me, he offers candid, even brutal, observations on how 20 years of counterterrorism warped the agency’s priorities and managers. Listen to it on Deep State Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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