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Intelligence Matters

DECLASSIFIED: Martin Petersen on the Tiananmen Crisis and Training CIA Analysts

Intelligence Matters

CBS News

(154991), News, Cbs, Politics, Government

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters DECLASSIFIED: Spy Stories from the Officers Who Were There, host Michael Morell interviews Martin Petersen, former senior CIA intelligence officer and Asia expert who spent over three decades at the agency. Petersen recounts the agency's early assessments of unrest that led to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China. Morell and Petersen discuss the training CIA analysts receive and Petersen shares the remarks he would make to all entering analyst classes. Intelligence Matters DECLASSIFIED is new series dedicated to featuring first-hand accounts from former intelligence officers.

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This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.

0:14.1

Brought to you by Lockheed Martin.

0:16.3

Your mission is ours.

0:19.1

Marty Peterson is the former executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the

0:24.4

agency's third highest ranking position.

0:27.0

He was a career analyst, a leader of analyst, and a China expert.

0:31.7

As part of our spy story series, Marty and I just sat down to talk about the CIA's analytic

0:36.7

work on the 1989 Tiananmen Square Crisis in China.

0:41.4

I'm Michael Morrell, and this is Intelligence Matters declassified.

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