DECLASSIFIED: Norman Roule on the Iranian Response to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Intelligence Matters
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🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Intelligence Matters DECLASSIFIED: Spy Stories from the Agents Who Were There, host Michael Morell interviews Norman "Norm" Roule. Roule spent 34 years working in the CIA where he led as the Iran Mission Manager for the entire intelligence community. After leaving the CIA, Roule joined ODNI as the National Intelligence Manager for Iran from 2008-2017. Currently, he is serving as a Senior Adviser to the Counter Extremism Project and United Against Nuclear Iran. In this episode, you will hear Roule break down past administration failures dealing with Iran, the consequences of inaction, and what Iran hopes for in a future nuclear deal.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell. |
| 0:06.5 | Brought to you by Lockheed Martin. |
| 0:08.5 | Your mission is ours. |
| 0:12.2 | Norm Rule is one of our country's leading experts on the Middle East in general and on Iran in particular. |
| 0:18.1 | Norm was a career CIA operations officer and spent the last several years of his career as the |
| 0:23.4 | Iran mission manager for the entire US intelligence community. |
| 0:27.1 | Norm has been on our show before and today he joins us to look back on Iran's response to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. |
| 0:35.1 | We'll be right back with that discussion after a word from our exclusive sponsor, Lockheed Martin. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Michael Morrell and this is an episode of Intelligence Matters Declassified, |
| 0:44.0 | spy stories from the officers who were there. |
| 0:51.3 | If anything's got a chance of solving the world's problems, |
| 0:54.5 | it's science and technology and every breakthrough was the result of somebody doing the breaking through. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm David Pope. |
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| 1:18.8 | Norm, thank you for joining us. It's great to have you back on Intelligence Matters. |
| 1:27.8 | My pleasure, Michael. |
| 1:29.3 | Norm, you know that this is going to be an episode in our series of spy stories. |
| 1:37.5 | We're not going to so much talk about what's going on today in the world but we're going to look back |
| 1:42.7 | at a specific time, at a specific situation and talk about that. |
| 1:47.9 | That's going to be the Iranian response to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 |
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