Opening the Foreign Influence Toolkit

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Welcome to SpyCast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum. I'm your host, Sasha Ingber, and each week I take you into the shadows of espionage, intelligence, and covert operations across the globe. Jessica Brandt knows a lot about influence. She was the director of the Foreign Malign Influence Center. which served as an intermediary between the U.S. intelligence community and the public. It alerted people to disinformation operations orchestrated by adversaries overseas.

She explains how the toolkit has gotten larger, more sophisticated, and is being wielded by more countries than ever before.

When we come back, Jessica describes more strategies used in foreign influence operations and what it was like working inside the Foreign Malign Influence Center.

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