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True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

Codename Tinsel Tyrant | FBI

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

SPYSCAPE

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

How does a San Francisco born Silicon Valley entrepreneur, "as American as apple-pie", become a vital intelligence asset for the Soviet Bloc? Hear the chilling tale of one James Harper, from national security reporter and the host of Spy Valley: Zach Dorfman. (Hear more from Zach here: https://brazen.fm/podcasts/spy-valley/) From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Justin Trefgarne. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.4

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0:31.0

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0:34.0

Go to Spiescape.com slash Spiescape Plus for details. This is true spies. The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret

0:52.0

missions of all time.

0:54.0

Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations

0:58.4

that have shaped the world we live in.

1:01.1

You'll meet the people who live life under cover. What do they know? What are their

1:07.3

skills? And what would you do in their position? I'm Rianna Needs and this is true spies from Spies Scape Studios.

1:17.0

When you bring a certain kind of personality in a certain kind of culture you get almost like a sociopathic result and that's what happened with Harper.

1:27.0

In the spring of 1980, a Trimaran sails deep into the Sacramento River Delta.

1:39.0

The Delta is 1,100 square miles of complex inland waterways, the largest estuary on the West Coast of America.

1:48.0

Alongside the Skipper are two passengers, James Derward Harper and Ruby Louise Schuler, both residents of San Francisco's Silicon Valley.

1:59.0

Harper and Schuler are also lovers.

2:02.0

But these aren't sightseers out for a romantic day trip.

2:05.9

They are transporting a horde of cardboard boxes. They stop near a small island deep into the delta.

2:15.0

Grabbing a shovel, Harper disenmarks.

2:18.0

As the skipper and shoeler look on, he starts to dig,

2:22.0

when he's about three feet down into the mud, Harper offloads the

2:26.2

boxes from the boat. Boxes that he knows contain over 2,000 documents, and he buries them.

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