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True Spies: Classic - Allied with Al-Qaeda

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

SPYSCAPE

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Venture into the True Spies vaults, as we take a look back at the extraordinary story of CIA Operations Officer: Doug London. Doug only has one shot to recruit one of Al-Qaeda's key facilitators. He must find common ground with a man with a vastly different background and belief system. Lives hang in the balance. He has to succeed. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Go to Spiescape.com slash Spies listeners. You're joining us as we crack open the True Spies vaults for the first edition of True Spies,

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The Classics. Here on The Classics, we revisit some of our favorite episodes from the True Spies Collection.

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Incoming Transmission.

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Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to true spies. Week by week, mission by mission. You'll hear the true stories.

1:17.0

Week by week, mission by mission. You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.

1:27.0

You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.

1:32.0

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

1:40.0

This is true spies. I wanted him to see me as somebody who had control at this point maybe over his life and death

1:47.0

But not a man of evil. I wanted his help to keep more people from dying and I said people were dead because of you.

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There's your opportunity to make amends

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by keeping more people from dying.

1:57.6

This is true spies.

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Episode 80 Allied with with Al Qaeda.

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21 years ago, somewhere in the Middle East, a wanted terrorist is sitting at a table in an austere

2:16.6

interrogation room. The walls are bare, the heat oppressive. All night long, the terrorist has been held in detention, anxiously awaiting his hour of reckoning.

2:30.0

It's nearly 4 a.m. by the time Douglas London enters the room, dressed in a crisp blue suit,

2:36.4

carrying a file, a thick dossier on Youssef, the man on the other side of the table.

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