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Intelligence Matters

CIA's Former Deputy Director for Science and Technology Dawn Meyerriecks

Intelligence Matters

CBS News

(154991), News, Cbs, Politics, Government

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Dawn Meyerriecks, former Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the CIA, about the role of technology in intelligence collection and analysis and how technological developments can enhance, threaten or fundamentally change the work of national security. Meyerriecks discusses how the CIA has historically approached the incorporation of new technologies into its tradecraft and how the agency is adapting to fast-moving changes today. She also discusses how the CIA is contending with the phenomenon of ubiquitous technical surveillance, which has threatened its human intelligence collection mission. 

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0:00.0

This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel,

0:06.3

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0:12.4

To start with the Transformation Technology Mission Center,

0:16.7

it was an acknowledgement that we, the agency, have a role to play.

0:19.7

VZV anticipatory intelligence with respect to technology trends that could undermine

0:26.8

national security as well as national economic security.

0:32.9

The consequences of us not understanding the operating environment that we are in and that we

0:38.7

will face in the future means that we have to be on top of this so that we can continue to bring

0:44.0

the unique insights. What we bring is absolutely unique and absolutely critical to inform

0:50.2

best informed policy makers. So it is absolutely essential that we figure out how to do this and

0:56.3

maintain our relevancy and our edge.

1:03.6

Dawn Myricks is the just retired former head of the Science and Technology Directorate at the

1:08.7

Central Intelligence Agency. She joins us today to talk about her career, her former directorate,

1:14.5

and the growing importance of technology to the CIA. We'll be right back with that discussion

1:19.4

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