It's October 10th, you're listening to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host and former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright.

Your morning intel starts now.

Today is Columbus Day.

I sure hope you're spending it in celebration, maybe some rest, too.

Regardless, today we are going to remind ourselves of the incredible story of Douglas Seymour

McHiernan.

It's part of the series that I like to do on holidays to highlight my brothers and sisters

at the CIA who have died in the line of duty.

I want to share their lives and their sacrifice.

And Douglas Seymour McHiernan, man, what an example of that.

For decades, no one knew his story, and that's not surprising he worked undercover.

But this morning, we should talk about it, because it is an extraordinary story.

Not only for the time in which he lived, but, frankly, for all of us, too, today.

Because the enemy that he faced, communist China, is the same one that we faced today.

So come with me on this journey, one that starts in Mexico City, marches onward to Massachusetts,

and then ends on a patch of frozen ground in China, just a few feet shy of what would

have been Doug McHiernan's freedom.

All that, plus what Doug's life means for us, for America right now.

On this special edition of the President's Daily Brief, we'll be right back.

It's time to explore.

This is your opportunity to discover what's out there for you, and realize what you were

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