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My father the spy (52min)

Investigative journalist John Richardson, Writer-at-Large for Esquire and author of In The Little World, pieces together his father's rise through the ranks of the CIA from post-war Europe to Vietnam and Korea. He recounts his adolescent rebellion against what his father represented and how he's come to understand his humanity.
Read entire article at WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"