5 Tours Abroad as a CIA Officer | Michele Rigby Assad | Ep. 322

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

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Michele’s career began in Washington, D.C. working for an international relief and development agency in its government relations department. Michele joined the CIA in January 2002 and spent a decade serving as an undercover intelligence officer in the Directorate of Operations. Specializing in counterterrorism, counterintelligence and lie detection, Michele spent the majority of her career in the Middle East. She had five overseas tours, to include Iraq and other secret locations.
Since leaving the CIA, Michele and her husband Joseph have run an international consulting firm that provides support to Western and not-native companies working in the Arabian Gulf, the wider Middle East, and several countries in Asia and Europe (SITE Advisors). She is also a keynote speaker, trainer, and author.
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1:02.5	Hey, everyone.
1:05.1	Welcome to episode 32 of The Team House.
1:06.2	I'm Jack here with Dave.
1:09.7	And our guest on tonight's show is Michelle Rigby Asad.
1:13.1	She is the author of Breaking Cover and Get Off the X. She served as a CIA operations officer.
1:15.8	We're very excited to have her on the show.
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1:35.0	So Michelle, welcome to the show. Appreciate having you on tonight.
1:40.4	So happy to be here. So let's dive right into it.
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