CIA Shadow Warrior

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Ric Prado is a paramilitary, counter-terrorism, and clandestine operations specialist with a 24-year career in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. A seasoned field operative, he spent a decade in the Agency’s Special Activities Division before serving as Deputy Chief of Station of the Bin Laden Task Force and Chief of Operations at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center on 9/11. From running counter-terrorism missions in Central America, Peru, and the Philippines to coordinating high-stakes operations with our nation’s most elite special mission units, Ric has been at the heart of America’s most critical covert missions. He is the author of BLACK OPS: THE LIFE OF A CIA SHADOW WARRIOR. FOLLOW SCOTT LinkedIn: @Enrique-Ric-Prado Facebook: @RicPrado Instagram: @prado_ric Twitter: @RicPrado2 Website: https://www.ricprado.com/ FOLLOW JACK Instagram - @JackCarrUSA X - @JackCarrUSA Facebook - @JackCarr YouTube - @JackCarrUSA SPONSORS CRY HAVOC – A Tom Reece Thriller https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/cry-havoc/ Bravo Company Manufacturing Mk15 Timepiece - MOD3: https://bravocompanyusa.com/bcm-mk15-timepiece-mod-3/ and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA THE SIGs of Jack Carr, From Savage Son: P320 X Compact, P320 Custom build from True Precision, P365 Customized from the Sig Custom Workshop, P226 Visit https://www.sigsauer.com/ and on Instagram @sigsauerinc STACCATO HD: https://staccato2011.com/hd and on Instagram @staccato2011 Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here https://jackcarr.co/gear

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0:00.0	This episode of the Danger Close podcast is brought to you by.
0:07.0	Cry Havoc, from New York Times number one best-selling author, Jack Carr.
0:15.0	Cry Havoc, a Tom Ries thriller. Order now.
0:21.6	But when you have somebody like the Lodd, who is not even a political figure, he was a terrorist,
0:28.6	and we are not allowed to neutralize that individual, the job of the agency is to prevent things from happening, not post, you know.
0:40.3	We had overhead of the camps he was building,
0:43.3	we had unilateral intelligence of what he was doing,
0:46.3	we had liaison intelligence of what he was doing,
0:48.3	just take him out out of the country or take him out, period.
0:51.3	And then administration would not buy off on it. We don't have enough proof.
0:55.0	We don't have enough proof.
0:56.0	Jack, imagine if we would have been able to neutralize bin Laden in 1997.
1:01.0	It'd be like shooting Hitler in 1938.
1:05.0	... I think we just dive right in.
1:19.2	I'm gay.
1:20.3	Yeah.
1:21.0	You've been on the podcast before,
1:22.5	and we've gotten to talk about Black Ops right here.
1:26.0	Went through it pretty extensively.
1:27.7	What an amazing life that you have led from your earliest days up until right now.
1:37.0	Just incredible.
1:38.8	So I want to hit some of these things again, a couple high points here.
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