The Trainer

I Spy by Foreign Policy

May 31, 202235:02Society & Culture

Well, listeners, it's taken us a while but here it is: the first episode of our fourth season. We begin with Ric Prado, a former CIA officer who trained the Contras in Central America in the 1980s. For those of you who d...

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