Marc Polymeropoulos: Clarity in Crisis at the CIA

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest on Danger Close is Marc Polymeropoulos. For more than 25 years, Marc Polymeropoulos was a critical member of the U.S. intelligence community specializing in counterterrorism, human intelligence collection and covert action. During his time in the CIA which included assignments in Afghanistan and Iraq, he received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Intelligence Commendation Medal, and the Intelligence Medal of Merit. Marc retired from the CIA in 2019.

In his new book, Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA, Marc shares his vast experience and the lessons he learned serving in high stakes leadership positions in an agency at war. He now serves as senior fellow in the Forward Defense practice of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Marc is also a highly sought after analyst, and has been featured in outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Fox News, GQ, Yahoo News, CNN, The Washington Examiner, and MSNBC.

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0:00.0	This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books of me, Jack Carter.
0:17.1	Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit
0:21.5	Union.
0:22.5	My guest today is Mark Pauli Moropolis, and if I pronounce that incorrectly, then I know
0:27.1	I'm not the first one to do so.
0:29.6	Mark is a 26-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
0:33.5	He started there as an analyst and then moved over to the directorate of operations, went
0:37.8	to the farm, became a case officer, and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and numerous
0:42.8	other postings around the world.
0:44.6	But a great conversation really enjoyed talking to him and can't wait to share a bourbon
0:48.6	with him one of these days in the not too distant future.
0:52.0	So sit back and enjoy my conversation with Mark Pauli Moropolis.
1:01.0	Before we got connected on an email, I already had this.
1:03.1	I already had this book, I already knew about you.
1:04.8	It was already like, I need to see if he has time to come on in 2022.
1:08.3	I'd love to talk to him for a little bit about all this.
1:11.2	But so first, by way of introductions, how do you pronounce your last name?
1:15.2	And I was, I listened to it a few times, but other people, I'm like, I got it.
1:18.6	I got it.
1:19.6	Nope, don't got it.
1:20.6	Pauli Moropolis.
1:21.6	I love it.
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