Why are so many spies getting busted?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Forget pretty much everything you've heard about James Bond. While loosely based on espionage tactics of yesteryear, actual human-based tradecraft is far less glamorous -- around the globe, intelligence organizations make long-term investments in games that run for decades, carefully cultivating assets with such secrecy that, true story, some folks genuinely don't know who they're working for. In recent years, an extraordinary amount of these individuals have been arrested, tortured, murdered, or simply... disappeared. So what's going on? Why are so many spies getting busted? Tonight, Ben, Matt and Noel aim to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.8 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:11.9 | A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:26.5 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:27.1 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:28.3 | They call me Ben. |
| 0:29.8 | We're joined with our guest super producer, JJ, the main way, pauseway. |
| 0:35.0 | Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:37.0 | You are here. That makes this the, you are you, you are here. |
| 0:37.9 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know, fellow conspiracy realist. |
| 0:43.7 | Tonight's episode has been, I would say, a few years in the making, decades, arguably. |
| 0:50.9 | For sure. |
| 0:52.1 | No question. |
| 0:53.9 | Oh, man, spies. A bridge of spies. A bridge too far of spies, perhaps. |
| 0:59.4 | What is the collective group name for spies in English? You know how there's a pride of lions, |
| 1:06.0 | a flock of geese? It ought to be a murder. A murder of crows and unkindness of ravens. |
| 1:12.0 | Maybe it's a conspiracy of spies. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, that's good. |
| 1:14.7 | That's good. |
| 1:15.3 | Or maybe, hold on. |
| 1:17.1 | No, no, Matt, I think you got one. |
| 1:20.1 | An anonymous. |
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