Mitchell Prothero covers intelligence and crime for Vice News. His new podcast with Project Brazen is Gateway: Cocaine, Murder, and Dirty Money in Europe.

“I’m really interested in transnational networks—crime, intelligence. I’m fascinated by the gray. Like, when is something legal and when is something illegal? One thing with this Gateway project [was that] nobody could ever tell me that moment where money goes from absolutely being illegal to being legal.”

Show notes:

• @mitchprothero
• Prothero on Longform
• Prothero’s Vice archive
• 01:00 “Paintballing with Hezbollah” (Vice • March 2012)
• 01:00 “Inside the World of ISIS Investigations in Europe” (Buzzfeed News • Aug 2016)
• 36:00 “The Wild Story of the Psychic, the Sheikh and the $90 Million Diamond Heist” (Vice • June 2023)

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