The FBI's Former Spy Catcher | Holden Triplett (throwback episode)
The Team House
dee takos
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
Holden Triplett is a national security and intelligence expert with extensive experience advising government and business. He spent nearly 15 years in the FBI, later serving as the FBI Faculty Chair at the National Intelligence University, teaching counterintelligence, national security law, and Chinese intelligence/information warfare. In 2017, he was Director for Counterintelligence at the National Security Council, leading U.S. counterintelligence policy and drafting directives and legislation to protect the government and private sector. Overseas, he was the FBI’s senior official in China (2014–2017) and held posts in Russia and Saudi Arabia. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, teaching Chinese Intelligence, Security, and Influence.
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| 0:00.0 | Special Operations |
| 0:04.5 | Covert Ops, espionage, the Team House, |
| 0:13.3 | with your host, Jack Murphy, and David Park. |
| 0:23.1 | Hey, guys, welcome to episode 172 of the Team House. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Jack Murphy here with Dave Park. |
| 0:28.3 | And our guest today on this Wednesday episode is Holden Triplett. |
| 0:32.7 | Holden is a former FBI counterintelligence agent. |
| 0:36.3 | He served here in New York. He served in Moscow, |
| 0:39.7 | Beijing, Washington, D.C. did a year up at the White House with the National Security Council, |
| 0:44.8 | a real depth of experience. And also working eyeball to eyeball with the Russian FSB and the |
| 0:53.4 | Chinese state public security section. Yeah, the NPS, Minister |
| 0:57.7 | Public Security. So, yeah, Holden, I mean, I really appreciate you coming into the studio and |
| 1:03.1 | doing this interview with us. And I think, you know, I was telling you before the show, we've |
| 1:07.6 | interviewed a number of counterintelligence people who come from various perspectives, but I think yours is very unique and contemporary. So I'm very interested |
| 1:19.3 | to hear from someone like you who is an insider, especially about like the culture of these |
| 1:24.8 | institutions, these foreign intelligence institutions that we |
| 1:28.2 | have various types of interactions with, not all of them so pleasant, as opposed to, you know, |
| 1:35.3 | what I can do is speculate and I can tell, I can tell people what I read in the newspaper, |
| 1:39.2 | but you actually lived it. So I'm excited to hear about it. Yeah, no, I'm happy to talk about it. |
| 1:43.3 | It was really fortunate to have that experience, and so I was happy to share it. So I'm excited to hear about it. Yeah. No, I'm happy to talk about it. It was really fortunate to |
| 1:44.8 | have that experience, and so I was happy to share it. So most of our shows, we start off asking |
| 1:50.6 | our guests sort of about, you know, your upbringing and, you know, what your path was into |
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