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Speaker 1:This is Special Agent Regal Special Agent Bradley Hall. The time is approximately eleven fifteen AM, about to start consensual telephone call with doctor Day was.
Speaker 2:Saying, China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world, but in twenty seventeen, the FBI got inside.
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