Australian Diplomat Nick Warner on His Career in Intelligence

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell interviews one of the world's top intelligence officials from down under, Nick Warner. Warner has held senior positions in Australia's diplomatic service, its defense ministry, and its intelligence services. He also served as the director of Australia's equivalent to the CIA, an agency known as ASIS or the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. Warner tells listeners the path he took to becoming a top intelligence official, the importance of the power of the trust, and how he managed to make it out of an Iranian desert stranded.

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0:00.0	This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.
0:06.6	Brought to you by Lockheed Martin.
0:08.6	Your mission is ours.
0:11.6	Nick Warner served for nearly 50 years as an Australian intelligence officer, diplomat,
0:17.4	and defense official.
0:18.9	He ran Australia's Secret Intelligence Service for 8 years, and he served for 2 years as his
0:23.6	country's first director general of the Office of National Intelligence.
0:28.4	Nick just recently retired from public service, and he and I just sat down to talk about
0:33.0	his career.
0:34.0	We'll be right back with that discussion after a word from our exclusive sponsor, Lockheed
0:38.3	Martin.
0:39.3	I'm Michael Morrell, and this is Intelligence Matters.
0:42.3	I'm Michael Morrell, and this is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA,
1:08.9	and I'm Michael Morrell.
1:15.9	Nick, welcome to Intelligence Matters.
1:19.2	It's a real honor for us to have you on the show.
1:23.0	Welcome.
1:24.0	Michael, thanks so much.
1:25.0	It's really good to talk to you from down here in Australia.
1:29.4	You know what's interesting is we have a lot of listeners in Australia.
1:34.0	In fact, when you look at the country breakdown, we have, after the US, Australia has more
1:34.3	listeners than any other country in the world.
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