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Welcome back to our new assignment.

Welcome back to our new assignment, True Spies, De Brief.

Here on the De Brief, we catch up with some of our favorite guests

from the True Spies Archive

for a deeper look at the themes, events and insights that fascinate them.

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at plus.spyscape.com. That's plus dot spyscape.com. In this debrief

true spies producer Morgan Childs catches up with David Tyson, a retired linguist who spent 25 years with the CIA.

You might remember David from our two-part miniseries, Team Alpha, which premiered in June 2022.

He was one of the first Americans to enter Afghanistan after 9-11, and as a linguist, he was able to connect personally with the Afghan nationals who were

allied with the United States in the fight against the Taliban.

That's why, after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, David was particularly moved to help the people left behind under Taliban rule.

In the wake of the withdrawal, David and his colleagues from CIA's team Alpha created a non-profit

organization called Badger Six to assist America's allies in Afghanistan and their

families, many of whom now faced threats to their

safety and freedom. Morgan spoke with David about Badger Six and about how he feels looking

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