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This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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From the crisis in American democracy to the collapse of the Middle East’s petrochemical oligarchies, this is your guide to the dangers that mass media isn’t covering.

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Espionage is changing, from George Smiley’s binary Cold War world
into a more complex landscape. The CIA employs targeted drone
killings while Russia and China’s cyber capabilities interfere in
elections, media and industry. How did we get here? And what does
the new ambiguity in intelligence mean for global stability? In
this edition Arthur Snell talks to veteran intelligence officers to
find out how the CIA’s “golden age” of fixing elections and
fomenting coups gave way to a post-9/11 world where technology
enables new threats – and Putin and the Chinese have the
advantage. Support Doomsday Watch on Patreon and get every episode
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“You can do interesting things with chemicals that you can’t do
with a knife or a gun. You can send a very clear message.”
– Dan Kaszeta “How has regime change actually worked out? It
hasn’t worked for the USA or the Russians. Are we safer or not?”
– Doug London “People would say, why don’t we just kill the
Libyan leader? And the answer was, Because we actually operate
within the law. Things were done once that nowadays are not done.”
– Lucy Kirk “The CIA went down a path of covert action and
counter-terrorism… And I do believe the Agency lost its way.”
– Doug London Photograph: Getty Images Written and presented
by Arthur Snell. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Assistant producer:
Jacob Archbold. Original music by Paul Hartnoll
– https://www.orbitalofficial.com . Group Editor Andrew
Harrison. Doomsday Watch is a Podmasters production. Learn more
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