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So how much of the episode was true to form from an intelligence perspective, and how much of it was pure Hollywood? We checked in with the International Spy Museum’s historian and curator, Dr. Vince Houghton, for Speakeasy’s weekly series on what “Homeland” gets right, and where its accuracy falls short.
So how much of the episode was true to form from an intelligence perspective, and how much of it was pure Hollywood? We checked in with the International Spy Museum’s historian and curator, Dr. Vince Houghton, for Speakeasy’s weekly series on what “Homeland” gets right, and where its accuracy falls short.
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I’m happy they have the quasi-subplot in the Balkans. I don’t know why Peter Quinn has to be there – there’s no reason to bring him along if the jihadists are going back to Berlin, but I guess he’s there so we can see what’s going on. It’s interesting because the Balkans have been somewhat of a gateway and conduit for weapons and training for jihadists who work into Europe. Since the war there in the early Nineties, when a lot of former mujahideen from Afghanistan went there to fight against the Serbs and the Croatians on the side of the Bosniaks (the Muslims), weapons flowed there from everywhere. Some from Iran, some from Saudi Arabia, and right now you have it as a lawless place where, if you want to bring weapons and train soldiers into Europe, the Balkans are your gateway. It’s most likely that the Paris attackers got their weapons through the Balkans, just because there is so much army-surplus weaponry there, former Soviet weapons. So it makes a lot of sense that the “Homeland” jihadists would go there. In this case, it’s not for guns or anything, but they’re really hinting at that they went there to get CBRN weapons – chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. It’s realistic to assume that they can get just about anything they wanted to in the Balkans short of a nuclear weapon.
I’m happy they have the quasi-subplot in the Balkans. I don’t know why Peter Quinn has to be there – there’s no reason to bring him along if the jihadists are going back to Berlin, but I guess he’s there so we can see what’s going on. It’s interesting because the Balkans have been somewhat of a gateway and conduit for weapons and training for jihadists who work into Europe. Since the war there in the early Nineties, when a lot of former mujahideen from Afghanistan went there to fight against the Serbs and the Croatians on the side of the Bosniaks (the Muslims), weapons flowed there from everywhere. Some from Iran, some from Saudi Arabia, and right now you have it as a lawless place where, if you want to bring weapons and train soldiers into Europe, the Balkans are your gateway. It’s most likely that the Paris attackers got their weapons through the Balkans, just because there is so much army-surplus weaponry there, former Soviet weapons. So it makes a lot of sense that the “Homeland” jihadists would go there. In this case, it’s not for guns or anything, but they’re really hinting at that they went there to get CBRN weapons – chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. It’s realistic to assume that they can get just about anything they wanted to in the Balkans short of a nuclear weapon.
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Going Rogue
This is not big at all, but there is that line from Dar Adal talking about not being able to hear what Saul Berenson said inside the hotel room, saying how there’s a two-and-a-half-minute gap in the tape because he turned on the faucet in the bathroom. It’s complete and utter nonsense. Unless they took a time machine back to the 1950s, they have audio-surveillance capabilities that can get through running water. It’s an issue because it’s a major plot point that they’re going to hang this “it was two-and-a-half minutes of blank tape” ridiculousness on. In an episode that got so much else right, this element really stood out, because they obviously did their homework for everything else.
Going Rogue
This is not big at all, but there is that line from Dar Adal talking about not being able to hear what Saul Berenson said inside the hotel room, saying how there’s a two-and-a-half-minute gap in the tape because he turned on the faucet in the bathroom. It’s complete and utter nonsense. Unless they took a time machine back to the 1950s, they have audio-surveillance capabilities that can get through running water. It’s an issue because it’s a major plot point that they’re going to hang this “it was two-and-a-half minutes of blank tape” ridiculousness on. In an episode that got so much else right, this element really stood out, because they obviously did their homework for everything else.
