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Speaker 2: Warning, the following contains graphic descriptions of violence and sexual

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Speaker 2: assault that may be too intense or triggering to some listeners.

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Speaker 3: One of my friend asked me, have you ever been

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Speaker 3: in love? And I said yes, of course, every single time,

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Speaker 3: and he said no, really because of my trainings, I

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Speaker 3: feel that sometimes every single man in my life, even

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Speaker 3: for their romantic relationship or something, I still look at them.

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Speaker 3: That's my targets. I have different targets in my life.

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Speaker 3: It's a different period of times, and manism is the

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Speaker 3: tool to achieve your goal. I know it sounds really bad.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, that's me.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to my world.

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Speaker 5: To enjoy you.

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Speaker 4: I'm really sorry.

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Speaker 6: I how to do that?

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Speaker 7: I go on my.

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Speaker 5: Juty friends and my god like to you have to tre.

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Speaker 7: Verses Episode nine, chapter nineteen. The story so far.

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Speaker 8: So I just finished listening to the first eight episodes

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Speaker 8: that to Die For. It was the most compelling thing

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Speaker 8: I've listened to in a long time, and this is

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Speaker 7: This is Robin Drake, the FBI agent whose voice you

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Speaker 7: heard at the beginning of this podcast. He's just finished

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Speaker 7: listening to the first eight episodes and called to share

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Speaker 7: some thoughts from his experience of twenty two years recruiting

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Speaker 7: Russian spies for American intelligence.

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Speaker 9: It's completely conceivable and believable.

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Speaker 8: Everything she said. Your heart just breaks for the trauma

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Speaker 8: that not just she, but.

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Speaker 9: I mean they take traffic in human beings.

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Speaker 8: I mean, that's exactly what they're doing. They corrupt them,

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Speaker 7: Robin is talking about Alia's experiences in the FSB, the

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Speaker 7: sharing her training. Aliyah was selected for a secret program

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Speaker 7: Robin sees as a victim of the system, forced to

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Speaker 8: And the other thing that struck me too is how

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Speaker 8: In my entire time and the FBI, never once did

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Speaker 9: They don't do it. Nope, it is not their culture.

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Speaker 8: And if someone rose into ranks, it was because they

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Speaker 9: What her major was doing, training other females just.

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Speaker 8: To be tools, and you know, I call them screwdrivers

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Speaker 9: It's totally objectified.

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Speaker 7: I want to ask you something that I've thought about,

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Speaker 7: and talking to you is bring that thought to the surface,

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Speaker 7: which is part of me thinks, assuming this all checks out,

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Speaker 8: And here's why I frame it like that, because from

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Speaker 7: We talk about the colonel who ran the academy that

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Speaker 9: There's no checks and balances whatsoever.

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Speaker 8: Their checks and balances is I'm the colonel, I say,

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Speaker 9: This is not about nation states.

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Speaker 7: With FBI agent Robin Dreeke's thoughts here in mind, we

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Speaker 6: Chapter twenty debate.

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Speaker 3: In two thousand and three, President Putin signed and founded

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Speaker 7: This was the new department that Aliyah would be working in.

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Speaker 7: Angry that Aliyah had rejected his marriage proposal, the colonel

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Speaker 7: It was Eliah's first task in the FSCN the Federal

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Speaker 7: Among Leah's many challenges there was her new commander, the

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Speaker 3: Less than a week I served in that new department.

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Speaker 3: The lieutenant general called me and he said to me

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Speaker 3: And said, yeah, it's pretty nice, thank you. And he said, well,

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Speaker 3: let's go for a dinner. And I said, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: He noticed that I was worshitting him, and he noticed

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Speaker 3: So we go out. And then I called to the cornell.

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Speaker 3: And I understood that I don't really have anywhere to

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Speaker 7: At one of those morning meetings, Aliah received her first

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Speaker 3: And I remember it was my first mission. I never

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Speaker 3: He was a addict. He used to help agents to

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Speaker 3: we would give him money which war marked previously by us.

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Speaker 7: Once their informant bought the drugs, the team would then

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Speaker 7: saw more than drugs and weapons. She saw evidence of

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Speaker 3: That boy he bought heroin a doze. He paid and

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Speaker 7: weeks later he's struck it away. Elien never saw coming.

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Speaker 3: Everybody were leaving his office after the reporting, and then

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Speaker 3: he said, oh, yeah, you were staying. I have a

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Speaker 3: special assignment for you. And I was like shit, So

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Speaker 3: I stayed in his room. He closed the door and

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Speaker 3: he said, so what did you decide? And I played stupid.

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Speaker 3: I said, like about what, sorry, like I don't understand,

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Speaker 3: and he's like, okay, so I see, like you don't

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Speaker 3: get it right, all right, you can leave now. I

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Speaker 3: pretended that nothing happened really, that he's not peaced, like

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Speaker 3: he's okay, but in fact he was really pissed. So

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Speaker 3: the next morning and he had our reporting as always,

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Speaker 3: and he said, by the way, agent, you have a

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Speaker 3: chance to pay back to your country by going to

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Speaker 3: do war, make us to be proud of you. And

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Speaker 3: when he said it, I heard all my colleagues were like,

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Speaker 3: oh my god, she is fucked. Good luck to her,

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Speaker 3: like when you'll go to the funeral. Inside of me,

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Speaker 3: I started to shake of anger and hate. He's sending

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Speaker 3: me to the Chechen war for me to be killed

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Speaker 3: over there and never come back.

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Speaker 7: Eliah's story continues in episode ten, which is available now.

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