He spent more than thirty years as a field officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. Now he writes spy novels as a retired Indiana University professor of practice. Gene Coyle lived an exciting — and occasionally dangerous — life as a CIA spy, residing in Lisbon, Athens, Moscow, and other exotic locales. He and his wife, also a retired CIA operative, have settled in Bloomington for the last 17 years. He talks about “dead drops,” “brush exchanges,” carrying a .357 Magnum in the days after the 9/11 attacks, and his new novel.

Hosts Michael Glab and Alex Ashkin chat with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.