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🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Welcome to the brand new EverydaySpy Podcast! Join former CIA officers officers Andrew Bustamante and Jihi Bustamante to discuss and dissect everyday topics from news headline to lifehacks. Whether you are a student trying to make a career in intelligence, or a parent just trying to make it through the day, Andrew and Jihi are excited to give you spy tips, tactics and insights that give you an unfair advantage in everyday life. Get ready to boost your knowledge, mindset, and confidence!
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0:00.0 | I was what's known as a staff operations officer. |
0:03.4 | Many people get that wrong. |
0:04.9 | Many people get a lot of the roles at CIA wrong because... |
0:08.3 | I did too when I started. |
0:09.7 | There's a huge, like, curtain between what the public thinks CIA is and what CIA actually is. |
0:16.6 | I worked a lot of hard targets. |
0:18.9 | I think the targeting that most people are probably familiar |
0:22.3 | with is capture kill. Capture kill collect. Capture kill collect. But usually in the war zone, |
0:27.9 | it was generally capture kill. When there's a group of people and you want to cause discourse, |
0:33.3 | what's the first thing you do to that group of people? You touch on their fears. |
0:38.3 | You divide the group. |
0:39.3 | You divide the group, right? |
0:41.3 | What is polarization? |
0:42.3 | It's division. |
0:43.3 | It's a division of the group, right? |
0:45.3 | This is espionage 101. |
0:46.3 | This is covert influence 101. |
0:48.3 | And yet we live in this world, you and I, where we see it play out in the headlines every day. What we're doing right now is actually |
0:55.6 | unprecedented. |
1:00.1 | Hey, everybody. I am so excited to introduce you to the new studio and the new Everyday Spy podcast. |
1:13.0 | And this is something that's been in the works for much longer than you know about. |
1:16.7 | And it's the very first episode. |
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