Yaya Fanusie – The Life of a CIA Analyst
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0:47 The Jabbari Lincoln Files, Yaya’s audio spy thriller
5:40 Is Jabbari Lincoln a fictional surrogate for Yaya?
10:05 How Yaya joined the CIA
16:18 What does a CIA analyst do, anyway?
20:42 The lessons of the WMDs debacle
23:08 A Muslim convert at the Agency
28:40 How the 2005 London Underground bombings got Yaya interested in counterterrorism
30:28 Terrorist recruitment and the search for self
35:57 Why Yaya doesn’t use the term “Islamophobia”
38:52 Yaya: Not even freedom fighters have license to kill with impunity
45:06 What would Malcolm X think about African American support of Palestinians?
52:22 Working for the CIA in the post-COINTELPRO era
Recorded November 9, 2024
Links and Readings
Sam Greenlee’s novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film adaptation of The Spook Who Say by the Door
Yaya’s essay for the Journal of Free Black Thought, “Hamas Are Not Muslim Freedom Fighters”
December 2, 1963 NYT article on Malcolm X’s “Chickens coming home to roost” comment
Yaya’s other podcast, Designated
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