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What If There Were No CIA?

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The Agency. The Company. Langley.


Without the Central Intelligence Agency, would we talk about conspiracy theories as much as we do? Who would be in power in Guatemala? What about Iran? Would the Bourne films ever have been made?


Don is joined by Jeffrey Rogg to discuss what would have happened had the CIA never been founded. Jeff is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global and National Security Institute at the University of South Florida. His book is The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence.


Edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.


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