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CIA Studying Scam Artists and Real Spy Craft vs. Mission Impossible
from The October Surprise · #14
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3 minRiff on the theory that Hillary's mother or associates were CIA assets, leading into a genuine tangent about the CIA studying door-to-door salesmen and scam artists' persuasion techniques in the 70s, and how little the public really knows about espionage.
- 25:25Tim describes the CIA studying scam artists and door-to-door salesmen in the 1970s to understand persuasion tactics.
- 25:58He notes that Americans don't know much about actual espionage, mostly what they see in movies like Mission Impossible.
- 26:26The real spy work, Tim explains, is extracting blackmail material on foreign leaders to manipulate geopolitical arrangements, not saving countries with crypto codes.
- 26:51Tim brings up the Philippines getting a new leader who recently told the CIA to come after him, suggesting they will.
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