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Podcast: True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
Episode: Special Forces Kinshasa | Green Berets
Description: Deep in the African rainforests, how do you hold together a decolonising nation in the wake of mass regional instability?James Stejskal, ex-CIA and former Green Beret, tells the story of his time in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the nation wrestles with its post-colonial identity, regional instability, and the AIDS crisis, James' job is to keep an exposed US Embassy safe and operating - giving Zaire its best chance to survive in the post-Cold War new world order...From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets...