David McCloskey

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17,234 appearances 72 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard yesterday

David McCloskey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Classified · 196. Kim Philby: A KGB Spy in Washington (Ep 1) · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

embryonic it is, is kind of scattered around the shabby collection of buildings in Washington, DC. voice-verified

I mean, they're so bad that it's, you know, they smell of like wet paper, they're damp, the heating doesn't work, because they've just been shoved into these kind of temporary accommodations. voice-verified

It it's it's all new. voice-verified

I mean, it's it's not even voice-verified

It's not even really a coherent organization yet. voice-verified

Come on and and talk more. voice-verified

Maybe this is Dulles' office where he had the anteroom off of it where he supposedly had sex with the Queen of Greece. voice-verified

I don't think that's the same office, but it could be. voice-verified

Could be a different office. voice-verified

It's gonna be a voice-verified

gonna have massive repercussions. voice-verified

And one of the most important relationships that he will build in Washington is with a very interesting and shadowy figure who's gonna be absolutely critical to the creation and formation of the the modern CIA, and that is James Jesus Angleton. voice-verified

Angleton voice-verified

Where to even start with this guy? voice-verified

I mean, at some point, and we've ta I think we've talked about this from I mean, really the early days of the show, that we will do an Angleton series because he is himself an extraordinary character, but he's just kind of voice-verified

brooding, wiry guy who's got thick glasses. voice-verified

He grows orchids. voice-verified

He uh ties his own fly fishing flies and lures. voice-verified

He studies poetry. voice-verified

Um he is he's kind of cadaverous, I think, in in his looks. voice-verified

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