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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When an informant leaks the location of an arms deal between a Romanian-American fixer and a Colombian rebel group, the DEA come down hard on both parties. But in a world of double-dealing, secrets and lies, is anyone truly who they say they are? Daisy Ridley joins investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson to tell the story of Flaviu Georgescu - who claims that he was working undercover for the CIA when he was arrested by federal law enforcement. Could the US government be creating the criminals they're supposed to catch? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Matthew Nelson. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	This is True Spies, the podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest
0:12.2	secret missions of all time. Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind
0:18.1	the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
0:22.1	True Spies. You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:28.0	What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?
0:35.6	This is True Spies. What's interesting about Flavio's case is that
0:40.5	prior to engaging in the arm steel to arm the FARC,
0:44.4	he calls the CIA and he offers his services to provide information
0:49.1	about that very arm steel. And so the question that ultimately is raised in his case
0:54.6	and that really is, you know, one that's hard to answer is whether he was
0:58.8	truly working for the CIA. I'm Daisy Ridley and this is True Spies
1:04.7	from Spicecape Studios.
1:10.8	The Alphabet Boys.
1:19.3	It's 2014 and we're inside a hotel room in Montenegro.
1:23.9	A Balkan country that shares a border with Croatia.
1:27.6	A group of men are huddled together. They're there to make a deal.
1:32.6	An arm steel. Some of the men represent a Colombian guerrilla organization named
1:38.7	FARC. Another man, a Romanian named Flavio,
1:43.4	is the arm steeler. He's going to set the rebels up with everything they want.
1:48.8	AK-47s, M-4 carbines, sniper rifles, ground-to-air missiles, and more.
1:56.1	In total, the rebels want $17 million worth of weapons.
2:01.5	And here, inside this hotel room, the deal is about to be done.
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