Foxtrot in Kandahar, Part 1: Snakes and Lightning | CIA

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True Spies Debrief: Julia Ebner on Radicalization, the Internet and Linguistic Analysis

The fantastic Julia Ebner, researcher and author, returns to the True Spies Debrief to discuss with host Morgan Childs her latest findings - how proper analysis of the online language of radicalized individuals can help predict violent terrorism before it happens. From SPYSCAPE, ...  Show more

Killing Lumumba | CIA

How did the coronation of a newly independent African nation, and it's democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba, turn into one of the hottest flash points of the early Cold War? Author and journalist Stuart A. Reid takes us back to the 1960s, and Congo's nascent position on ...  Show more

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