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This is true spies.

The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.

Week by week, you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.

You'll meet the people who live life under cover.

What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?

I'm Riana Nades. What would you do in their position?

I'm Riana Needs, and this is True Spies

from Spiescape Studios.

There was never a time, was it ever far from your mind

that any one of these individuals at any time

could represent a danger but usually it wasn't the top thing that you thought about.

Of course that proved dramatically incorrect.

The War on Terror, part two. From Coast to Compounds.

December the 30th, 2009.

At the CIA's Langley headquarters,

Case officer Aaron Brown is desperately

trying to get in touch with his colleagues at Camp Chapman,

Coast, Afghanistan. No response is forthcoming. The Coast team's combs start to go offline altogether.

It's chaotic and people are trying to figure out what's going on.

Then a senior officer enters the room.

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