Getting Off the X with Michele Rigby Assad—CIA Operative and Spy

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Michele Rigby Assad spent a decade in one of the most dangerous roles on the planet—as an undercover operative for the CIA, specializing in counterterrorism in the Middle East. Her job? Finding sources of information to keep America and the Coalition Provisional Authorities in Iraq ahead of al-Qaeda. But it wasn’t until she left the CIA, and a chance phone call with a big-shot Hollywood producer, that she found her most meaningful mission. She’s an incredibly aggressive woman who will push you to get moving off your X and into a life of meaning.

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0:00.0	Don't tell me Homeland isn't true.
0:02.1	That's the one I was going to ask you about.
0:04.2	Don't, come on, do not burst my bubble.
0:07.6	Especially, you got a woman.
0:08.7	You got a woman.
0:09.4	You're going to crack on a woman in Homeland?
0:11.2	Right, I know. Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:31.5	For a decade, Michelle Rigby Assad was an undercover intelligence offer for the offer.
0:39.0	Officer.
0:40.0	Yeah, that too.
0:41.2	She had offers as an officer in the CIA specializing in counterterrorism and counterintelligence.
0:47.9	Translation, she was a spy and a badass one.
0:52.0	Like any spy is not a badass.
0:54.5	While it might sound like a movie, dodging bombs,
0:58.3	getting information from terrorist informants,
1:00.8	and protecting American interests,
1:03.0	all that stuff was in a day's work for Michelle.
1:05.7	She's lived and worked in six Middle Eastern countries,
1:08.7	including working in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq,
1:11.3	where the coalition provisional authority and CIA had their headquarters.
1:15.7	It was a location routinely targeted by insurgents and terrorists on a regular basis.
1:21.3	After a decade in near constant danger, Michelle and her husband, also a CIA operative,
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