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I'm Johnny Mendez former CIA officer and a founding board member of the International Spy Museum I'm here to answer some questions from Twitter this is spy support [Music] at spicy lime415 asks do spies have anxiety I think all spies have anxiety you want to make sure you're not setting someone up for a situation because you forgot a detail when the anxiety really kicks in though is when one of your people is incarcerated is arrested in Moscow I felt anxiety all the time Moscow I thought was kind of scary in 1985 10 of our Russian assets were arrested and executed 10 of them in the summer that kind of anxiety is built into the job there's nothing you can do about it except when you're working make sure that you absolutely respect the protocols that we have to go through and level of detail that's required to carry off an operation at Rosemary Chalet one asks what are CIA handlers what you're calling CIA handlers I'm calling CIA case officers they get the requirement from the government