CIA Paramilitary Team Leader | JR Seeger (throwback episode)

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

originally aired 7/8/22

JR Seeger served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne and as a CIA officer for a total of 27 years federal service. Since his retirement, JR has written articles and book reviews in the CIA professional journal "Studies in Intelligence" and the TE Lawrence Society newsletter.
MIKE4 was his first novel and the first in a six part series about a family who have served in the special operations and intelligence community from World War II to the present.
In 2020, JR has started a new series focusing on the early twentieth century competition among the great European powers. Part fantasy, part thriller, the first book, “A school for the Great Game,” looks at the first decade of the last century through the eyes of a teenager.
JR splits his time between WNY and New Mexico.

Check out JR's books here:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/J.-R.-Seeger/author/B07FDKNXTF?ref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=a05bfcad-a836-4573-8b15-5673bcbba311

JR's website:
https://www.jrseeger.com/

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0:00.0	Special Operations
0:04.0	Covert Ops, Espionage, The Team House, with your host, Jack Murphy, and David Park.
0:22.0	Hey, guys, welcome to the team house.
0:24.5	I'm Jack Murphy here with co-host, David Park.
0:27.5	Our guest tonight is J.R. Seeger.
0:30.0	J.R. served as a Army infantry officer and then went on to have an extensive career in the
0:35.7	Central Intelligence Agency, which included leading
0:38.4	paramilitary teams, one of the first teams into Afghanistan, amongst many other postings around
0:44.0	the world as chief of station, chief of base, all sorts of interesting things that JR will be
0:49.1	able to get to in varying levels of detail as he's allowed. He is also an author. He's an author of the Mike 4
0:57.2	series. And he is the author of a steampunk series. This is a school for the great game. And I,
1:06.0	well, J.R., I've wanted to interview you. I've wanted to have you on the show for a long time.
1:10.0	I really appreciate you doing this. Well, it's my pleasure interview you. I've wanted to have you on the show for a long time. I really appreciate you doing this.
1:13.0	Well, it's my pleasure, guys.
1:14.7	It was the reason I didn't have any idea.
1:18.1	You interviewed a teammate of mine, and you looked right in the camera and said,
1:22.6	hey, JR, if you're watching, I want to talk to you.
1:25.0	So that's actually why I'm talking to you today.
1:32.2	You're talking about we had Justin on?
1:35.0	That's right, absolutely.
1:36.2	Yeah, Justin Sapp, we had on a little while back.
1:39.0	He was great.
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