Above Average Intelligence: Ukraine, Elections and AI - A Conversation with Patrick Weninger

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Marc’s guest this week is Patrick Weninger, a retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Case Officer with over 28 years of experience in the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. Air Force. He served executive-level headquarters assignments overseeing clandestine operations, tradecraft, and technical operations and served as a Senior Executive Operations Officer and Manager, with senior field assignments in the Near East, South Asia, and Europe, including multiple Chief of Station and war zone assignments. He led and oversaw the CIA’s global program for Russia. Marc and Patrick discuss Ukraine, election meddling and generative AI. Don’t miss this fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with one of the agency’s top former officers, in his national security podcast debut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	This is above average intelligence, a production of the DSR Network.
0:53.2	Each week hosts Mark Polymeropolis and David Rothkoff
0:56.7	are joined by leading experts from the intelligence community
0:59.9	for expert analysis on the biggest security challenges
1:03.4	around the world.
1:04.8	Welcome to the podcast.
1:12.4	I'm Mark Polymeropolis, and this is DSR's above average intelligence show.
1:17.0	Today I'm very happy, actually I'm more than happy, I'm thrilled to welcome as my guest Mr. Pat Wenninger a former colleague of mine a very good friend of mine and as you'll note and as we'll go through today this is one of the first times he's kind of out in public talking about not only his career but more importantly some of the
1:34.4	things he's working on in the national security space so it's a delight to have
1:37.8	pat on here pat welcome thank you mark it's great to be here We've been talking about this for what the last year you've been trying to get me on so
1:47.8	I have eventually relented and now I'm on so that's right. I was I was I was not taking no for an answer but we are honored you know on above average intelligence I think this is the first podcast national security podcast you've done I think you're going to have people lining up afterwards for your
2:03.5	expertise but we were the first and trust me I will I will give all of our
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