Yaya Fanusie – The Life of a CIA Analyst

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0:47 The Jabbari Lincoln Files, Yaya’s audio spy thriller

5:40 Is Jabbari Lincoln a fictional surrogate for Yaya?

10:05 How Yaya joined the CIA

16:18 What does a CIA analyst do, anyway?

20:42 The lessons of the WMDs debacle

23:08 A Muslim convert at the Agency

28:40 How the 2005 London Underground bombings got Yaya interested in counterterrorism

30:28 Terrorist recruitment and the search for self

35:57 Why Yaya doesn’t use the term “Islamophobia”

38:52 Yaya: Not even freedom fighters have license to kill with impunity

45:06 What would Malcolm X think about African American support of Palestinians?

52:22 Working for the CIA in the post-COINTELPRO era

Recorded November 9, 2024

Links and Readings

1776 Unites

The Jabarri Lincoln Files

Sam Greenlee’s novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film adaptation of The Spook Who Say by the Door

Yaya’s essay for the Journal of Free Black Thought, “Hamas Are Not Muslim Freedom Fighters”

December 2, 1963 NYT article on Malcolm X’s “Chickens coming home to roost” comment

Yaya’s other podcast, Designated

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