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Speaker 1: Ah, good afternoon. How can I help you? Hi?

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Speaker 2: Her my name is Flavio and I was born in Romania.

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Speaker 1: But right now I'm I'm usp Then.

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Speaker 3: It's April twenty twelve and a Romanian man makes a

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Speaker 3: call to the United States Central Intelligence Agency. He says

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Speaker 3: the matter at hand is urgent and he needs to

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Speaker 3: meet in person with a CIA agent in Europe, and

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Speaker 3: soon I.

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Speaker 1: Need to talk with someone personally over here.

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Speaker 3: The official on the phone sounds skeptical.

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Speaker 1: Okay, then you need to go to Then you need

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Speaker 1: to go to the embassy then, because if you don't

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Speaker 1: want to tell me over the phone, I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to send somebody out to meet you. Okay. If you

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Speaker 1: need if you need to talk in person only, then

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Speaker 1: you need to go to the embassy.

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Speaker 3: The caller says, this is very serious and sensitive. He

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Speaker 3: can't just walk into some embassy and start talking. He's

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Speaker 3: been approached by someone who needs to buy weapons, some

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Speaker 3: serious weapons that will target Americans. These guys are dangerous.

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Speaker 1: So you do personal security all over the world. You're

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Speaker 1: connected to all these different people, and you had somebody

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Speaker 1: call you and say, can you get grenades and guns

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Speaker 1: for this guy in Columbia not certify grades a lot

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Speaker 1: of ammunitions, a muni AHA forty seven.

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Speaker 3: You think a call like this would set off alarms,

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Speaker 3: wouldn't The CIA love to catch some arms dealing bad guys.

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Speaker 3: the CIA, the DEA, and the FBI all mixed up

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Speaker 3: in the same case. It's the story of a jet

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Speaker 3: set Romanian businessman, a brash Colombian drug runner, and a

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Speaker 3: seventeen million dollar arms deal that goes really really wrong.

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Speaker 2: Is the.

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Speaker 1: Romanian government on my ass right now? Because I think

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Speaker 1: I'm bullshitting.

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Speaker 3: At the center of everything, it's Flavio. But who is Flavio?

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Speaker 4: When I land, there's Flavio in a suit, It's like

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Speaker 4: follow me?

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Speaker 3: Is he a secret agent?

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Speaker 4: And he slams down his badge in my passport and

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Speaker 4: they just stamp it and I'm like, something's going on here?

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Speaker 3: Is he an arms dealer?

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Speaker 2: You have to come to.

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Speaker 1: Monte Negris because of your friends, because I have a

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Speaker 1: right now in my head?

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Speaker 3: Or is Flavio something else entirely What's college fum.

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Speaker 1: An inmateant at a prison.

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Speaker 2: I see movies with arm dealers on TV, but hold on,

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Speaker 2: I have to learn. I have to create a mindset. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I'm going there for say, but I'm gonna die.

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