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Strong rec mhoad · 2022-11 · on “How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents in the field (2015)”

For anyone is into this kind of thing I would suggest checking out The Team House on YouTube which has a lot of very in-depth interviews with some very recently retired CIA folks talking about their experiences in the field. Given a lot of the crazy shit I hear come up in the comments here every time the CIA tends to get mentioned in almost any context this might actually be a good resource for a lot of folks here to start separating fact from fiction. I’ll drop a couple of my favourites here but they must have at least 20 of them by now. Doug London [LINK] This guy had a really long career at CIA in the particular job that you all think of when you think of a “spy” that spanned around 30 ye

Recommends mhoad · 2022-12 · on “The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies”

Here are two very in-depth interviews with two recently retired individuals who get into a lot of the mechanics of how that works in reality. Doug London [LINK] Jim Lawler [this video]

Recommends mdhb · 2024-01 · on “Dutch man sabotaged Iranian nuclear program without Dutch government's knowledge”

I think you might be a bit hung up here on the word software which in your defence is not the correct word here. Replace it with “operation” and it’s not at all a crazy number to suggest that an incredibly complicated multi year multi national intelligence operation to disrupt a covert nuclear weapons program inside of an actively hostile nation who have a serious counterintelligence and counter espionage apparatus ended up costing that amount. You end up coming to the conclusion rather quickly that it’s actually great value for money. While not at all about this particular operation but if you want to hear someone who actively ran another incredibly successful nuclear non proliferation oper

Cites themodelplumber · 2022-12 · on “Covert Sabotage Campaign in Russia Under CIA Direction”

Are you ignoring his more recent history, like the part about being the cofounder of SOFREP? The Team House podcast which he runs has also featured enough ex-CIA guests that he certainly has some very solid contacts & knowledge both. At a quick glance: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [this video] [LINK] [LINK] Not only experienced CIA in there, but also from the same group there are published authors on CIA history.