David McCloskey

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16,976 appearances 71 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard yesterday

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

I had a conversation with a uh former CIA chief of station in London and just about the job. voice-verified

And this person told me that essentially voice-verified

A massive part of it today, I think, a uh, you know, as in Phobey's day, is deconfliction. voice-verified

It's helping to understand where the two services might bump into each other, where they might be running the same operations, targeting the same people, and making sure that everyone plays in the sandbox well together, because there's such a convergence of geopolitical interest that it makes no sense to have the two services bumping into each other. voice-verified

Yeah, you don't want your voice-verified

Literally bumping into each other or having case officers going and trying to recruit the same networks. voice-verified

So Philby's job is kind of school marm of the sandbox in a way, of making sure that the two services play nicely. voice-verified

reach. voice-verified

And this came up voice-verified

Constantly in the series we did back in August on the Five Eyes, where the the geographic spread. voice-verified

Matters. voice-verified

The footprint matters for signals intelligence and in this case for actually planning and you know staging paramilitary operations. voice-verified

the case. voice-verified

Better names. voice-verified

Better better code. voice-verified

I'm gonna give you that. voice-verified

I'm going to give you that. voice-verified

I guess also seen from voice-verified

MI6, Albanian exile agents are not, yeah, you you probably consider them to be pretty expendable resources, unfortunately. voice-verified

mean Phil Philby is in a very interesting voice-verified

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