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Episode 6 - Reel vs. Real: CIA's Second in Command Sorts Spy Fact from Fiction

The Langley Files: CIA's Podcast

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Would You Like to Write a Spy Story?

The best spy fiction is not the scenario that you just described before. It would be about interesting characters in interesting places finding themselves in difficult situations where they need to use their moxie to figure out how to get out of it. If I were to be writing a spy story, I think I would set it in one of these small stations with the young officers who are being asked to recruit sources and engage with foreign partners.

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