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Coast Guard Intelligence: An Interview with Captain Erich Telfer

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Education, History, News

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Captain Erich Telfer, the commanding officer of the Coast Guard Maritime Intelligence Fusion Center Atlantic in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Houghton and Telfer discuss the role of the Coast Guard in the broader American intelligence community, the professionalization of the Coast Guard intel branch, and CAPT Telfer’s research into the intelligence response to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. CAPT Telfer’s study can be read here: http://ni-u.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Telfer_UnlimitedImpossibilites.pdf

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That's spycloud.com slash cyberwire and we thank spy cloud for sponsoring our show. Hi and welcome to Spycast. From the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

1:33.3

I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator.

1:37.0

Every week, the museum brings you interesting conversations with authors,

1:40.9

scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.

1:46.6

Join us as we take a commanding officer of the Coast Guard

2:00.5

Maritime Intelligence Fusion Center Atlantic in Virginia

2:03.7

Captain Telfer's previous tours include a mix of operational and

2:08.1

intelligence assignments. Operationally, Captain Telfer has served as a group duty

2:12.3

officer at Group Miami as a group duty officer at Group Miami, as a deck wash officer

2:15.0

on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Reliance, and as executive officer of Group Upper Mississippi River,

2:20.8

and as a commanding officer of the Pacific

2:22.5

tactical law enforcement team in San Diego, California.

2:25.6

Under his command, PACT-Taclet sees and

2:28.7

disrupted 199,921 kilograms of cocaine and and seized 8 self-propelled summersibles, all of which led

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