David McCloskey
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17,419 appearances
73 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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But then to have Western intelligence services, who you as an Iranian who lived through 1953, you've lived through the CIS support for the Shah and Savak, you see
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the Brits and the Americans as this kind of all seeing, all powerful entity, they come to you with information.
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From a Soviet KGB officer that they've recruited or they've plopped him down in this chair in Islamabad, they've just given you hard evidence that all of your paranoia is true.
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It cements the idea, doesn't it?
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That
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I'm gonna put it in one.
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Yeah, you can put it if my editor takes it out.
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KGB officer is recruited by MI6 in Iran at a time of revolutionary upheaval.
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His intelligence helped shape the Cold War.
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But how far is Agent Redwood motivated by some rather personal difficulties?
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Well, welcome to the Rest is Classified.
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I'm David McCloskey.
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And I'm Gordon Carrera.
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And welcome to a very special series as we delve into the amazing story.
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Of an MI6 agent known as Redwood.
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His real name is Russian, Vladimir Anatolovich Kuzychkin.
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He's a man who embodies
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I think it's fair to say some of the very complex human motivations uh of those who end up spying for other countries.
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I would wager that Kuzychkin's name is not particularly well known among uh espionage history aficionados.
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