John McLaughlin on Helping Families of the Fallen

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🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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For a special Memorial Day episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with former deputy director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin about the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, which was founded in the aftermath of 9/11 to help the families of fallen officers. McLaughlin explains the foundation's unique mission and shares some of the inspiring stories of children it has helped. The two also discuss the intelligence challenges facing the CIA and its new director, Gina Haspel.

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0:29.1	This is the Intelligence Matters Podcast, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael
0:34.1	Morel, sponsored by Raytheon.
0:38.2	There are 125 stars now carved on the Memorial Wall at CIA.
0:42.7	The star is carved each time an officer dies.
0:47.4	By my count, more than a third of those stars have been carved since 9-11, which is a pretty
0:51.6	graphic illustration of the danger that has come to CIA officers in this period of strife
0:57.3	after those attacks.
1:00.0	Gina has the challenge and the opportunity of being CIA director at an inflection point
1:05.2	in the evolution of human affairs, barn affairs, and international relations when the world
1:11.1	is shifting to some new construct for which we don't yet have a name.
1:16.8	John McLaughlin is one of our nation's leading experts on intelligence and national security.
1:21.7	John spent nearly 30 years as a CIA analyst, rising to lead the analytic side of the
1:26.7	CIA agency to be the deputy director under George Tennant, and finally the acting director
1:31.4	after Tennant left the agency in 2004.
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