Brian Fairchild: USA Faces New Anti-American Military Bloc, CIA Not Up to Task Anymore
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Retired CIA case officer Brian Fairchild discusses his life working in the national security state, the New Cold War, and the anti-American military bloc led by China. His biggest grievance is that the CIA is not up to the task anymore. After the collapse of the USSR they had no primary mission and after 9/11, they focused solely on counter-terrorism and forgot about the rest of the world. He explains the problems with espionage today and discusses his new book “The Hidden: A Griff Harkin Novel”.
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About Brian Fairchild
Brian Fairchild was a career CIA case officer for over nineteen years. He ran clandestine operations under nonofficial (NOC) and official cover in CIA stations in Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe, including an assignment as chief of base in a “denied area”.
In 1998, Brian testified before Congress as a subject matter expert on a blue-ribbon counter-terrorism panel.
During the decade immediately following the 9/11 attacks, Brian trained over 10,000 FBI, CIA, military personnel, as well as state and local police intelligence officers on the terrorist threat.
In 2009, he worked one-on-one with His Highness Sheikh Saud bin Saqr al Qasimi, then Crown Prince (now Ruler) of the emirate of Ras al Khaimah, UAE, to create a total-immersion cultural course for US military personnel.
From July 2011 to December 2012, Brian served in Kabul, Afghanistan where he mentored Afghan National Police intelligence officers for ISAF’s Afghan Intelligence Transition Directorate (AITD). He held a Top-Secret clearance from the Department of Defense until 2016.
Brian researches and writes articles on national security, intelligence, and terrorism, and is the author of the new spy thriller, The Hidden.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Brian Fairchild, a former CIA case officer with nearly two decades of experience who operated in the shadows under official and non-official cover across the planet. |
| 0:13.5 | He has testified before Congress and imparted his counterterrorism expertise to over 10,000 professionals in the FBI, CIA, military personnel and police officers. |
| 0:23.6 | Brian's journey also involves working directly with an Arabian ruler and serving as an |
| 0:28.1 | advisor to Afghan national police officers during his 18-month assignment in Kabul. |
| 0:33.7 | Drawing from his experience in the CIA, Brian authored the book, The Hidden, now available for purchase, where he shed light on clandestine operations and intelligence matters. |
| 0:44.5 | His goal is to help educate the public about the existential problems we face from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, and what they can do about it. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome to the podcast, Brian. |
| 0:55.3 | Thank you, Herrvoia. I really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:58.4 | Thanks for coming on. And, you know, your background is interesting, fascinating, a bit of a cold |
| 1:04.7 | warrior, maybe, so to speak. And, you know, I grew up in the 80s and 90s on a steady diet of GI Joe's Chuck Norris |
| 1:13.7 | Delta Force you know Rambo you you name it and so you know before touching on some of these topics |
| 1:21.9 | anything you'd like to tell us about your background and the work you've done over the many decades. |
| 1:29.6 | No, actually, well, I mean, yeah, I can tell you, a lot of people ask me, well, how |
| 1:35.2 | the heck did you ever get interested in CIA? |
| 1:38.9 | You know, so, so maybe I can start there if it's okay with you. |
| 1:43.0 | When I was, I was about 13 years old, I was in Arizona, in Mesa, Arizona, dry desert. |
| 1:50.4 | And I read, you know, talk about the power of the word and the power of a novel. |
| 1:55.7 | I read Jack London's Call of the Wild. |
| 1:59.5 | And as a kid, you know, growing up in a desert and reading about these adventures of this guy up in Alaska, it sort of captured my imagination. |
| 2:08.0 | So that was the beginning of the journey. |
| 2:10.5 | About a year later, you know, I'd like for it to be sexier, but I went to the movies, and I saw Sean Connery and James Bond's from Russia with love. |
| 2:23.7 | And, man, I watched that movie, and it just captured my imagination. Everything about it got me. |
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