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Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

CIA Super Spy Andrew Bustamante | True Crime Podcast 417

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA covert intelligence officer.

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0:00.0

All right, let's let's explain to people then how you came to join up with the CIA.

0:06.7

Yeah, so the agency does a lot of different types of hiring. They go to career fairs. They go to job fairs

0:12.9

They go to college fairs. They have an open website and what people don't realize is like 90% of what the CIA does is not

0:19.8

Undercover at all. You can go be a logs officer. You can go be a

0:24.0

janitor if you want to be you can be a science and technology like tech officer and a lot of those are just totally open

0:29.3

You your tax statement says CIA you drive to the CIA headquarters building, right? You can wear a CIA t-shirt on the weekends

0:37.0

It's only about 10% of us that go undercover and that was where I was and that recruiting is a little bit different

0:43.2

So for me they found me when I was trying to go full-blown hippie

0:47.6

Trying to transition from the military into the peace corps. All I wanted was like a nice hippie chick with hairy armpits to travel

0:55.3

Africa with me saving children and they intercepted me on that path and brought me into the dark side

1:05.0

And then you bet your wife through this work

1:07.3

Yeah, and then it was all dark side. It wasn't all the dark side

1:10.6

Yeah, because she was also on her

1:13.2

Directory to the peace corps and she got intercepted also so perfect. She just had shaved armpits

1:17.8

But that's okay. I can forgive me

1:19.8

Whenever I go anywhere in the world

1:21.3

Nobody thinks I look American and that's the key. The key to disguise is just not looking like what you really are

1:28.3

It's not about looking totally different. It's about breaking the profile

1:32.5

So you don't look like what people expect so in Asia and Latin America in the Middle East and the caucuses

1:38.6

I blend in beautifully nobody thinks I was a CIA intelligence officer ever they think I was the help

1:44.4

But they don't ever think I was an intelligence officer

1:47.4

Something you said it was very fast guys

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