Best of Danger Close: Spycraft and Intelligence
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Jack Carr
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🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Description: NOTE: In the coming weeks, Jack is releasing a series of “best of” collections from the Danger Close archives. Each episode contains portions of past interviews, all centered around a theme or topic. Today’s episode features conversations with current and former members of the intelligence community and intelligence analysts.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS:
DOUGLAS LONDON - Full Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/danger-close-with-jack-carr/id1557814875?i=1000538426102
RIC PRADO - Full Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/ric-prado-black-ops/id1557814875?i=1000558891242
CLINT EMERSON - Full Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clint-emerson-living-the-rugged-life/id1557814875?i=1000569047146
SAMUEL KATZ - Full Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/samuel-katz-no-shadows-in-the-desert/id1557814875?i=1000552241030
MARC POLYMEROPOULOS - Full Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/gh/podcast/marc-polymeropoulos-clarity-in-crisis-at-the-cia/id1557814875?i=1000549795436
FRED BURTON - Full Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fred-burton-protective-security-specialist-author-and/id1557814875?i=1000516096247
DAVID KILCULLEN - Full Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-david-kilcullen-a-student-of-warfare/id1557814875?i=1000525709471
KARA FREDERICK - Full Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/kara-frederick-big-techs-totalitarianism/id1557814875?i=1000576378628
Sponsors:
Navy Federal Credit Union: Today’s episode is presented by Navy Federal Credit Union. Learn more about them at http://navyfederal.org/
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SIG: This episode is sponsored by SIG Sauer. You can learn more about SIG here: http://bit.ly/SIG-JackCarr
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books but me, Jack Cawr. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Navy Federal Credit |
| 0:21.7 | Union. |
| 0:22.7 | This is a best-out of episode, spycraft and intelligence, featuring conversations with |
| 0:28.0 | former members of the intelligence community and intelligence analysts. |
| 0:32.3 | Douglas London, Rick Prado, Clint Emerson, Samuel Katz, Mark Paul Moropoulos, Fred |
| 0:38.6 | Burton, David Cokolin, and Kara Frederick. |
| 0:42.2 | Here they are. |
| 0:47.5 | Douglas London. |
| 0:49.6 | Douglas London is a retired CIA operations officer and the author of the book The |
| 0:54.1 | Recruiter, spying in the lost art of American intelligence. |
| 0:58.7 | He served as a US Marine before joining the Central Intelligence Agency in 1984, where |
| 1:03.1 | he worked for 34 years, equal time on either sides of 9-11. |
| 1:09.2 | His job was the clandestine collection of human intelligence that comes from people |
| 1:13.0 | who provide secrets valuable to the United States. |
| 1:15.8 | Here's Douglas London. |
| 1:17.7 | Now you talk about that a lot at the paramilitary side of the house versus the case officer |
| 1:23.4 | side of the house and what happened at 9-11 to really change the culture of the Central |
| 1:28.1 | Intelligence Agency. |
| 1:30.0 | You talk about the CIA as being at a crossroads. |
| 1:33.9 | Has it been in a crossroads since 9-11 or is this now in 2021 or are we at another crossroads |
| 1:39.6 | roads now that were essentially out of Iraq, essentially out of Afghanistan that we're |
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