The FBI dug a tunnel under the Russian embassy
5/11/202624 min
The CIA and the FBI famously weren't talking to each other in the lead-up to 9/11. This is the story of why.
Supervising producer Kara Jensen-McKenna tells Matt about a decades-long secret FBI operation underneath the streets of Washington which ended in one of the most extraordinary betrayals in American intelligence history.
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This podcast was produced on the lands of the Awabakal and Gadigal people. [upbeat music] G'day, Matt Bevan here. This is If You're Listening. We've spent the last few weeks digging into Palantir, the data company that is powering everything from the US military to the CIA to Coles. Our first episode covered how the 9/11 terrorist attacks led to its conception, and we talked about how it works. And in the next episode, we're taking a look at the CEO, Alex Karp, and where he wants the company to go. My supervising producer, Cara, has been helping with writing these episodes, which means that she has even more tabs open than usual, and she's got a story that she's somehow managed to keep from me entirely. It's about why