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Hello and welcome to Spycast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

I'm Peter Ernest, the Executive Director of the Museum. I served for some 36 years

in the Central Intelligence Agency, largely as what is called an operations officer or a case officer.

Every month will be bringing you interesting. an operations officer or a case officer.

Every month will be bringing you interesting talks with visitors,

with authors, with others who have something to do with the world of intelligence

and espionage. My guest at Intelligence and Espionage.

My guest today is Juan Carlos Serrate.

Juan served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy National Security Advisor on the NSC for

Counterterrorism from 2005 to 2009.

He had also served as First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial

Crimes.

And he's currently a senior advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies

and a National Security Consult and analyst for CBS News.

One, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Peter. I appreciate being here.

You've had a very rich background in dealing with terrorism, which is, and specifically the financing

of it and tracking financial crimes.

This is very much on our minds today because of the, I should say, heated discussion that's ensuing now about our commitment in Afghanistan,

whether it can be sustained, whether we need to change strategy.

And I think one of the core questions there is,

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