Ned Price
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147 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 21 Jun
Ned Price’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That is really, as Rob was saying, the key skill that intelligence officers learn when they're going through their training, whether they're KGB, whether they're CIA, whether they're any other intelligence, worthy intelligence outfit officers.
the world over.
And it's not about, you know, technology that will make you appear invisible or learning how to see through, you know, hidden eyeballs in the back of your head.
I think there are lots of misconceptions about what intelligence tradecraft is.
It is really the art and it is the art of, as Rob was saying, understanding someone, assessing someone, and then most importantly,
blending the false impression to your target that you care about him or her, that you're interested in what they're talking about, and that you're on the same team.
And I fear that's exactly what President Putin did from the moment he got into the beast with Donald Trump.
We heard about some of that, including from Trump himself.
He said that Putin raised
Mail-in voting, he said that Putin complimented him on some of the greatest hits from the campaign trail and really endorsed some of what he'd been saying.
Obviously, so much of that was about manipulation.
But then I think yesterday, there was something really startling that hasn't gotten enough attention.
President Trump was having a conversation with President Macron, and there was a hot mic.
And President Trump sort of leaned over and said to him, said to President Macron,
I think Putin wants to make a deal.
I think he wants to make a deal for me.
Very clearly, Putin left Trump with the impression that, you know what?
I like you.
We can work together.
Let's do this together.
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