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From the KGB with Love: How to Forge the Perfect Baltic Citizen

From the KGB with Love: How to Forge the Perfect Baltic Citizen

Morning Paranoia | English vor 1 Monat

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What does the perfect Baltic citizen look like?

According to the logic of modern counterintelligence: trustno
one, avoid suspicious conversations, don’t ask uncomfortable
questions, don’t organize with others — and perhaps don’t insist
too loudly on your rights. After all, anyone could potentially be
a spy.

In Episode 4 of Morning Paranoia, Olga Karach looks at
howsurprisingly familiar Soviet counterintelligence habits can
appear in today’s Baltic security thinking — from Stierlitz and
the old KGB principle that “a chatterbox is a spy’s best friend”
to modern warnings about potential recruitment.

The joke becomes less funny when real journalists andactivists in
exile are targeted with Pegasus spyware — and the question of who
was actually spying on them remains unanswered.

A story about old Soviet reflexes, new European realities,real
spies, imaginary spies — and the art of forging the perfect
citizen.

This podcast was made possible thanks to the ElevenLabs Impact
Program and our strategic partnership. We are incredibly grateful
to ElevenLabs for their support.

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