Terror On The Line | CIA

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It's 2007, and Iraq is in a state of chaos. Factions of armed insurgents clash with Coalition forces, and the USA is looking for an exit strategy. 32 year-old Egyptian-American CIA officer Joseph Assad is a new face in Baghdad's Green Zone. He's got an idea that could help to end the slaughter - one so crazy, it just might work. Daisy Ridley joins Joseph as he tells his story publicly for the very first time in a True Spies exclusive. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Ashley Clivery. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	This is True Spies, the podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions
0:13.0	of all time.
0:15.0	Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world
0:20.4	we live in.
0:22.4	True Spies.
0:23.4	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:28.2	Do they know what are their skills and what would you do in their position?
0:36.0	This is True Spies.
0:38.0	2006 and 2007 were the toughest years in the war in Iraq.
0:43.0	Chaos.
0:44.0	Iraq literally devolved into a complete anarchy.
0:49.3	Everybody was being slaughtered.
0:51.2	Every group was involved.
0:52.7	And I remember thinking what seemed like an impossibility was now about to materialize
0:59.5	in front of my face.
1:01.3	I'm Daisy Ridley, and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.
1:10.5	Terror on the line.
1:19.5	Not an undisclosed location, a short helicopter ride from Baghdad, a CIA officer finds himself
1:26.1	at a military detention centre.
1:28.8	It's just after midday, the air is dry, and the sun is piercing.
1:37.9	I have to take off my helmet, my vest, my weapons, since I cannot meet with the DT&E
1:44.4	carrying any weapons.
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