Today's episode from the silo was originally published on November 26th, 2024.

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This is Above Average Intelligence, a production of the DSR Network.

Each week, host Mark Polymeropolis is joined by leading voices in the intelligence community for expert analysis on the biggest security challenges around the world.

Welcome to the podcast. I'm Mark Polymopoulos, and this is DSR's Above Average Intelligence Show.

Today I'm very happy to welcome as my guest. Third time back, I think it's three now, Mr. Ed Bogan.

Ed is a retired CIA operations officer and proven executive leader with 24 years of experience in national security and intelligence operations

of policy with a track record of providing tailored strategic insights in national security

solutions across South Asia, Middle East and Europe. He's a two-time chief of station, a three-time

chief of base, with also extensive time as acting chiefs of station and acting chiefs of base

across four other locations.

Edd served five of his seven PCS assignments that in our old world is our deployment,

our two or three year assignments, sometimes one year assignments.

But in three designated war and combat zones, all of his acting stints also in countries in armed conflict, He clearly did not like places like, you know,

Paris or London, kind of mirrored my career where I never served in those places to the

chagrin of my family. But Ed, welcome back to the show. Thanks, Mark. And thanks for mentioning

Paris and London. I'm actually heading to both

places over the next several days. That's actually going to be good. What a great way to kind of start.

Because I think that what certainly will talk about today, the election, the effect on U.S.

foreign policy, U.S. intelligence community. But I think one of the things that will be interesting,

and of course, now I'll have to have you come back on is how the world is watching us. I'm not going to go and catastrophize right now about the election, because I've done too much of that. I've on social media, I've actually moved away from Twitter. I can't take the algorithm there, and so I'm on blue sky, but this is not going to be a catastrophizing 40 minutes because I want to just get into the substance.

But I just on one note, I was just in Europe as well.

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