Deceiving the Iraqis in Operation Desert Storm

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🗓️ 26 June 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Military deception was an important part of Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 coalition effort to eject the Iraqi Army from Kuwait. The man in charge of that U.S. Marine Corp’s part of that deception was Brigadier General Tom Draude. Despite the fact that he had no previous background in deception, General Draude and his team of clever American planners put together an elegant and effective deception plan. Hear him tell Peter how they exploited the expectations of Iraq's military to put them off guard and out of place. Also learn about the role in that books such as The Man Who Never Was and John Le Carre’s The Little Drummer Girl played in General Draude’s thinking.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K.
0:07.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to Spycaste from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
0:21.0	I'm Peter Ernest, the Executive Director of the Museum. I served for some
0:26.0	36 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, largely as what is called an operations officer
0:31.6	or a case officer.
0:33.1	Every month we'll be bringing you interesting talks
0:35.9	with visitors, with authors, with others who
0:38.6	have something to do with the world of intelligence
0:41.4	and espionage. Our guest today is. world of Intelligence and Espionage.
0:42.8	Our guest today is Marine Corps Brigadier General Thomas Droudy, now retired.
0:50.2	Tom, may I call you that?
0:51.6	Please.
0:52.0	All right. Tom attended the... Tom, may I call you that? Please.
0:52.6	All right.
0:53.6	Tom attended the Naval Academy, graduated, and was commissioned in 1962.
0:59.4	He had a lifelong desire, ambition, as it were, to be be a marine and he fulfilled that and over the
1:05.7	years served in a variety of command staff positions. In 1990 as a Brigadier
1:11.4	General he joined the first Marine Division as its assistant division commander,
1:16.9	and while in that position he was in charge of deception for the Marines involved in Operation Desert Storm.
1:23.0	And that's what we wanted to talk about today.
1:26.0	Our focus will be during Desert Storm,
1:29.0	the deception operations that you, in effect, were in charge of.
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