Brittany Butler spent nine years as a targeting officer within the CIA's Directorate of Operations, Counterterrorism Center. Brittany has worked both at Langley and in the Middle East and has first-hand knowledge of how the CIA recruits spies and how intelligence organisations discover and apprehend terrorists.

In today’s episode we speak about:

• How Brittany was recruited to the CIA
• Our perceptions of what someone in the CIA would look and be like vs reality
• Whether she told her loved ones what her real job was
• Meeting terrorists and whether Brittany was ever scared
• How the collaboration between CIA, FBI, secret services and police works
• Who was ultimately responsible for the security at former president Trump’s assassination attempt
• What Brittany is and isn’t allowed to speak about from her time in the CIA
• Is the CIA a boys' club? Honey pot operations and the value that women bring to intelligence organisations
• Advocacy for women’s rights in the Middle East
• Writing spy novels from a female perspective and sharing those experiences!

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