The Secrets of Sabotage

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

Spy, Learning, Spies, Thinking, Human, Cia, Intelligence, Espionage, Education, Lifehack, Social Sciences, Advantage, Edge, Unfair, Science, How To, Humint, Secret, Growth, Business

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We all grow up loving spy movies and books for the action! Guns shooting, bombs going off, buildings being destroyed. And while the real thing is often just as exciting as a movie, it is very different in one powerful and important way. In this episode, Andrew shares a secret about intelligence operations that you can use to take control and gain leverage in any everyday situation.

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom! Freedom Freedom
0:23.6	Freedom
0:24.6	My son is in this place of childhood right now
0:30.6	where he wants to solve all the problems of the world
0:34.6	by blowing something up or opening a can of whoop-ass, which he thankfully
0:39.6	calls whoop-butt.
0:41.8	He's seven, so it's way more endearing to me than it is worrisome.
0:47.4	But it makes it really entertaining to watch movies and cartoons with him because he's like
0:51.8	a living, breathing, personal version of my own Wiley
0:55.0	coyote with an unending box of TNT.
0:58.0	This past Christmas, there was a suicide bombing that happened in Nashville, and my son was
1:04.0	really confused, because when he discovered that the bad guy blew himself up, he didn't know exactly what the good guys were supposed to do next.
1:14.8	Now, you all know me well enough that when I see an instant of cognitive dissonance like this and my son, I have to jump on it.
1:23.5	So I did.
1:24.8	One of the biggest misnomer's about CIA is that all of our ops include killing or
1:31.0	assassination, sabotage, or some other form of violence so that we can destroy our enemies. Yes, those things
1:38.7	have happened and they will most likely happen again, but these destructive operations really only make up a small
1:45.7	percentage of all the ops that we execute at CIA, like maybe 2 to 4%. Every operation is born from one of
1:54.8	two intents, either a destructive intent, like all the killing and blowing things up, or a constructive intent. Destructive
2:04.3	intent makes for great movies and TV, but it usually comes with high levels of risk, or very
2:10.2	little long-term utility. It's like trashing your neighbor's car with a baseball bat because their dog
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