Chatter: Coups and Counterintelligence with Peter Strzok
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Peter Strzok is a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent. He was the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division and led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. He speaks with Ben Wittes about the numerous places he has called home and a career spent in counterintelligence.
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| 3:00.0 | You started at 10 in Iran, I think, right? |
| 3:05.0 | And it kind of worked from there? |
| 3:08.0 | It did. |
| 3:10.0 | And organization is, we have to be really generous with that definition if you want to call any of them organized but there was one in Iran |
| 3:20.0 | in the 78 beginning of 79 from there to West Africa there were two successful |
| 3:28.0 | coups and at least two maybe more unsuccessful coups. |
| 3:34.3 | So what, we're at five. |
| 3:36.6 | In Haiti, there was one. |
| 3:40.9 | And then depending on whether or not |
| 3:42.2 | you want to count 2016 to 2020 that makes either six or seven. |
| 3:47.0 | All right and great so let's start by talking about each of those coups that you personally organized as an eight-year-old in Iran. |
| 3:58.8 | What were you doing living in Iran starting coups as an eight-year-old? |
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