How a Spy Family Taught One Woman to Trust, Verify, and Travel
Tara Jabbari talks with Amy Benavides about growing up in the world of espionage, what it was like to move between Germany, Austria, Guatemala, Japan, and Hong Kong, and how that shaped her memoir about being the child of a CIA spy during the Cold War. The conversation also gets practical, with clear advice on travel safety, reading a place correctly, and protecting your devices and data while abroad.Amy brings both lived experience and a spy-adjacent perspective from her family life, including her father’s CIA work, her husband’s Marine Corps career, and her own ongoing international travel. They also dig into how stereotypes about countries, cities, and safety often miss the real story.
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This episode was recorded and edited on Riverside.fm
The microphone used by Tara is a Shure MV7.