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Episode 27: Knowing your enemy (Part 1 of 2)

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The Importance of Personal Contacts With Ostensible Friends

There's a distinctive thing when you're talking about an ostensible enemy or someone who doesn't share your value system how you deal with that. The United States was the number one international phone destination for people in Iran I mean they phoned incessantlyYeah and there were umpteen communication levels at a sort of a popular level but also obviously at the level of the Shah and the president and this sort of thing. There wassort of an elite relationship the question is of course is whether actually they understood each other yeah.

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