Daniel Silva

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933 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Jul

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The Chuck ToddCast · Interview Only w/ Daniel Silva - A Spy Novelist's Threat Assessment of the Real World · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, I have to say, you know,

President Silva, President Todd, I don't think that you would be, you know, jettisoning your allies in Europe and creating chaos in your intelligence services if you didn't want something bad to happen to your country.

I don't understand the rationale why we are... Well, there's only one rationale.

I mean, that's the thing.

The only thing that explains it is that you're like... Why would you rip up the American intelligence community?

Why would you rip up the FBI?

I don't get it.

I'm not sure that would be a GRU asset or an SVR asset.

Look, the other thing to keep in mind is that there are all kinds of different assets.

You don't have to be Kim Philby to be an asset.

Someone who was recruited in his youth and brought up to be an agent of penetration.

There are different levels of assets.

And as Gabriel Alon pointed out a few years ago, that some of the best assets don't even realize that they're assets.

And they have been... So how do they become assets?

They either come to the table as an asset or they get compromised.

And you just tell them that you're compromised.

This is this.

And then they just start sort of running themselves to try to stay in your good graces.

There's that kind of person.

But some of these people are just...

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