David McCloskey

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16,492 appearances 68 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 5d ago

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The Rest Is Classified · 193. The KGB in Iran: Defecting to MI6 with Ben Macintyre (Ep 1) · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

Well welcome back. voice-verified

We're with Ben McIntyre talking about his amazing new book, Redwood. voice-verified

Vladimir Kuzichkin. voice-verified

And we last left him in Tehran in this kind of broiling spirit of revolution. voice-verified

One of the things I love about the book, Ben, was you go into a lot of great detail. voice-verified

I don't want to give too much away, but a lot of great detail about the KGB's operations in Iran, in Tehran, in this kind of revolutionary period. voice-verified

I mean, could you give us some sense of voice-verified

what Kuzichkin is actually kind of doing. voice-verified

These operations where he's he's drinking, he's trying to prepare himself for this this kind of tense environment. voice-verified

I mean, maybe walk us into one of those, if you wouldn't mind, for kind of what he's doing, nuts and bolts on the ground as he's he's in his job as a KGB officer. voice-verified

sew every sewage engineer that I know is the life of the party. voice-verified

might be listening. voice-verified

I think the stress level is it it's so important structurally to understand the business and the people in it. voice-verified

Cause if you're in finance or venture capital, you can be wrong nine times out of ten, but if you're right once and you get the payoff, it's great. voice-verified

So there's sort of this portfolio, you know, if if you're in a normal corporate job, you can tend to be wrong occasionally and move on and move up in a company. voice-verified

You can't voice-verified

be wrong. voice-verified

If you think you're free of surveillance and you're not, and your illegals are killed and rolled up, arrested, and killed or disappeared, that's it. voice-verified

You're done. voice-verified

So there's it is you have to be perfect every time. voice-verified

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