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Israeli influence, Al-Qaeda, assassination: Afshin Rattansi challenges ex-CIA Tel Aviv station chief

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Susan Miller, former chief of the CIA’s station in Tel Aviv. Afshin Rattansi asks her about the close relationship between the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet, Israel’s level of influence over US foreign policy, Israel and the CIA’s involvement with ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, Syria’s Al-Sharaa/Al-Jolani being welcomed to the White House by Donald Trump, the CIA’s role in the assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani, whether the CIA’s policy of assassinations are actually successful in furthering US foreign policy objectives, the Trump administration’s bogus pretext of narco-trafficking for pushing regime change against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the CIA’s own history of being involved in drug trafficking, and much more.

24.11.2025
28:14 min
24.11.2025
28:14 min
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Israeli influence, Al-Qaeda, assassination: Afshin Rattansi challenges ex-CIA Tel Aviv station chief
Twice a week, award-winning journalist Afshin Rattansi and his team go underground to cover geopolitics and current affairs from a perspective you won’t find in the mainstream media, with some of the most high-profile guests.