#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 239 minutes
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:10) – CIA and the President
(18:47) – War in Ukraine
(59:44) – Most powerful intelligence agencies
(1:06:54) – David Petraeus
(1:16:31) – Undercover disguises
(1:29:30) – Human nature
(1:38:49) – CIA recruitment process
(1:55:33) – CIA and secrecy
(2:02:06) – Cyber security
(2:12:47) – Sexpionage
(2:19:22) – Private intelligence
(2:32:48) – NSA and Snowden
(3:00:48) – Conspiracy theories
(3:21:55) – CIA and UFOs
(3:36:41) – Spy tricks
(3:53:23) – Advice for young people
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Andrew Boost-A-Monte, former CIA covert intelligence officer |
| 0:05.6 | and US Air Force combat veteran, including the job of operational targeting, |
| 0:10.8 | encrypted communications, and launch operations for 200 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. |
| 0:19.3 | Andrews, over seven years as a CIA spy, have given him a skill set and a perspective on the world |
| 0:26.7 | that is fascinating to explore. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
| 0:32.1 | Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We've got |
| 0:36.6 | Wealthfront for Savings, Element for Hydration, Better Help for Mental Health, ExpressVPN for |
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| 0:50.7 | And now onto the full ad reads, never in the ads in the middle. I hate those. |
| 0:54.8 | And the ads I do here up front, I do try to make interesting. But if you must skip them to your |
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| 1:50.5 | future. From a stoic perspective, you should consider that you can die any day now. But from a |
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