David McCloskey: Former CIA Analyst and Author of 'Moscow X'

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is former CIA analyst David McCloskey.

David served as a CIA analyst for six years under the Bush and Obama administrations. He worked in the Middle East and at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center concentrating on Syria and Iraq. He also wrote for the President’s Daily Brief, gave classified testimony to congressional oversight committees, and briefed ambassadors, senior White House officials, military officers, and foreign dignitaries.

David’s first novel, Damascus Station, was published in 2021. It was included in the Financial Times list of best summer books in 2022 and was a finalist for the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel.

His new novel, Moscow X, is available now.

You can learn more about David by following him on Instagram @mccloskeybooks and visiting his website, davidmccloskeybooks.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit
0:21.8	Union.
0:22.8	My guest today is former CIA analyst David McCloskey.
0:27.0	He is the author of Damascus Station, his latest Moscow ex is out right now.
0:34.1	And without further ado, David McCloskey.
0:41.3	Why don't we just hop right into it in the interest of time.
0:43.8	Let's do it.
0:44.8	Awesome, man.
0:45.8	Thank you so much.
0:46.8	Is that Daniel Silva over there in the corner?
0:47.8	What do you got right there?
0:48.8	Yeah, I've got, I've got, this is a, I've got a number of things going on over here.
0:53.8	I've got some of yours that are almost by loaned out to a buddy.
0:57.4	So that's, that is banished.
0:59.0	She got some look today, some silver, some Bentley, some McIntyre, all smattering of the
1:04.9	spy cannon over here.
1:06.3	Yeah.
1:07.3	Yeah.
1:08.3	You loan books, huh?
1:09.3	Books.
1:10.3	I don't, I don't do it anymore.
1:11.5	Yeah.
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