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Has the CIA Lost Its Grip on the Middle East?
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:33:05
Publish Date: 2021-05-19 19:11:05
Description:

CIA clandestine services veteran and longtime Middle East hand Marc Polymeropoulos tells Jeff Stein that the CIA no longer prizes regional expertise, instead opting for spy corps “generalists” who can be shifted from region to region. In this Special Edition of the SpyTalk podcast, Polymeropoulos laments the passing of Charlie Seidel, who he calls the CIA’s “last great Arabist.”

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