“My Life in American Intelligence” – with Barry Zulauf

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary Barry Zulauf (Twitter; LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss his extensive experience working across the American intelligence community. Barry is the President of the International Association for Intelligence Education. What You’ll Learn Intelligence What is the “Intelligence Community?” The organizational structure of American intelligence The establishment of the ODNI The intelligence components of the DEA Reflections A life of service Passion to serve the people And much, much more … Quotes of the Week “[Fentanyl] is an enormous, enormous problem and no single organization, even as big as the Defense Intelligence enterprise, can deal with it alone. So, it's going to be a lot of diplomacy and a lot of building bridges, convincing people to do the right thing.” – Barry Zulauf. Resources SURFACE SKIM *SpyCasts* First of Many…America’s First Female Intelligence Agency Chief with former NGA Director Letitia “Tish” Long (2023) Espionage and the Two Queens with Kent Tiernan (2023) Irregular Warfare & Intelligence with IWC Director Dennis Walters (2023) El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel & Intelligence with Trial Reporter Noah Hurowitz (2022) *Beginner Resources* America's intelligence community, explained, The Washington Post, YouTube (2014) [2 min. video] Members of the IC, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (n.d.) [Brief summaries of the 18 agencies] Who We Are, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (n.d) [Short article] DEEPER DIVE Primary Sources The WMD Commission Report (2005) The 9/11 Commission Report (2004) The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (2004) The Clark Report (1955) The Doolittle Report (1955) National Security Act (1947) CIA Review of the World Situation (1947) *Wildcard Resource* Barry mentioned early in the episode that he actually rowed into town the morning we recorded this episode – Barry shares this hobby with Teddy Roosevelt, an avid rower and the president that was instrumental in the creation of the FBI. Check out this Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to Theodore Roosevelt that catapulted the FBI into existence.

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0:46.0	Coming up next on Spycast. I had to sit down with some management there afterwards and I was I was told well you're never going to be the chief because of what you do. This week's guest is Barry Zulaf, who has worked all over the US Intelligence Community,
1:12.4	from Naval Intelligence to the DEA, and from the
1:15.4	National Intelligence University to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
1:21.0	As he puts out, I speak cop, Navy, Intelligence and Defence.
1:26.0	He currently works to the Department of Defence as the Defence Intelligence Officer for
1:30.6	Counter-Narcotics, transnational organized crime and threat finance.
1:35.0	He also has a PhD from the University of Indiana.
1:39.0	But if you'd like to find out more about Barry or this episode,
1:42.0	go to our web page at the CyberWire.com
1:44.8	slash Podcasts for extended show notes, links to further resources and a full transcript.
1:52.4	In this episode Barry and I discuss what is the intelligence community, how American intelligence
1:59.2	is organized, the establishment of the Office of the director of national intelligence
2:04.4	and the intelligence components of the Drug Enforcement Administration or DEA.
2:09.8	The original podcast on Intelligence since 2006, we are Spycast. Now sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
2:20.0	I'm so pleased to speak to you, Barry, we met last year and it's always been in the back of my head.
2:29.0	I really want to pick your brains about a few things.
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