David McCloskey

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17,234 appearances 72 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 4d ago

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

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The Rest Is Classified · 194. The KGB in Iran: Appeasing the Ayatollah with Ben Macintyre (Ep 2) · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

Bits and pieces. voice-verified

As you know, David, you know, they s I thought our two agencies shared everything. voice-verified

You know, I know voice-verified

We know voice-verified

Otherwise we're gonna lose the Cold War. voice-verified

Is it your sense in looking at the story that voice-verified

A coup is actually voice-verified

Imminent or voice-verified

Would would have happened, or was this something that was on the shelf that could have been activated in the future? voice-verified

And so Casey and Kerwin are looking at this and saying, right, this is a potential asset down the road. voice-verified

Let's deny the Russians this asset. voice-verified

It's how you make it credible, right? voice-verified

There's no upside to crediting. voice-verified

There's no idea. voice-verified

There's no ISIS. voice-verified

helps to create a monster. voice-verified

Yeah, I I was thinking about some other examples of intelligence sharing with hostile or sort of semi-hostile states. voice-verified

I mean there's there was counterterrorism cooperation with Assad Syria, there's counterterrorism cooperation with Putin's Russia occasionally with the SVR and the FSB. voice-verified

There they're rumors of um of even agency contacts with the Chinese over North Korea, you know. voice-verified

And I think they have a t these kind of voice-verified

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