What It Takes to Run the CIA's Southeast Asia Department

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Aug 18, 202642:29Society & Culture

You might find Meredith Cavan playing music in an Irish pub. But long before her first album dropped, she clocked more than 20 years at the CIA. One of her jobs there was Southeast Asia Department chief, where she oversa...

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