What role has religion played in the CIA’s missions around the world? Dr. Michael Graziano, author of Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA, joins us for a conversation about religion in America’s Central Intelligence Agency. We explore how the CIA set out to understand religious traditions across the globe in their fight against Soviet communism, what happened when they profoundly misunderstood how religion functions in various parts of the world, and the CIA’s ideas about Islam following the end of the Cold War and Bin Laden’s attacks on the United States.

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