Former Head of Digital Innovation at CIA on the Challenges of Technological Change

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Sean Roche, a recently-retired senior CIA official who ran the agency’s digital innovation arm. Roche, who spent nearly 30 years at the agency, discusses the early, internal preparations the CIA made in anticipation of both technological challenges and new opportunities in the digital domain – including the creation of the CIA’s first new directorate in more than 50 years. Roche also discusses evolving cyber threats from nation state and non-nation state actors.

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0:11.6	Our newest series looks at the Kids for Cash Scandal, a story about two judges who stood
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0:28.0	This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel.
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0:35.3	Your mission is ours.
0:36.3	So how many years of the agency, Sean?
0:38.5	More than 26.
0:40.4	How did the agency change over that time period?
0:42.9	What never changed was a couple things.
0:45.2	No matter what was going on in the world, no matter what challenges we faced, no matter
0:49.5	what the hot topic of the day was, it was never game over.
0:52.9	There was never a time when anybody that I ever knew with the agency said, well, we probably
0:57.7	can't solve them.
0:58.7	The things that change for the better, the agency represents a much better job of representing
1:03.6	the country as it exists today.
1:06.0	And I'm talking about building a workforce that values the diversity they bring and includes
1:12.3	them in the conversation.
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