Show Notes
original air date - 01/19/24
Former CIA officer Luis Rueda reflects on a career that took him from fleeing Castro’s Cuba to covert operations in Central America, Grenada, the drug war, Iraq, and eventually serving as Chief of Station in New Delhi. He also breaks down the failures behind the Iraq War, the reality of intelligence work, and what decades in the CIA taught him about power, policy, and counterintelligence.
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- Start
- Growing Up in Cuba and Fleeing After the Bay of Pigs
- Being Recruited by the CIA
- Training at the CIA’s Farm
- The CIA and the Invasion of Grenada
- CIA Operations in Central America
- The CIA’s War on Drug Cartels
- Cuban Intelligence Tries to Recruit Him
- Eastern European Intelligence Operations After the Cold War
- Running CIA Operations Against Iraq
- Rumsfeld, General Franks and the Iraq War Plan
- The Intelligence Behind Iraq’s WMD Claims
- Chief of Station in New Delhi
- India, China and the Fight for the Indian Ocean
- Counterintelligence and Becoming Permanently Paranoid
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.
Former CIA officer Luis Rueda reflects on a career that took him from fleeing Castro’s Cuba to covert operations in Central America, Grenada, the drug war, Iraq, and eventually serving as Chief of Station in New Delhi. He also breaks down the failures behind the Iraq War, the reality of intelligence work, and what decades in the CIA taught him about power, policy, and counterintelligence.
Support the show here:
https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTeamHouse
- Start
- Growing Up in Cuba and Fleeing After the Bay of Pigs
- Being Recruited by the CIA
- Training at the CIA’s Farm
- The CIA and the Invasion of Grenada
- CIA Operations in Central America
- The CIA’s War on Drug Cartels
- Cuban Intelligence Tries to Recruit Him
- Eastern European Intelligence Operations After the Cold War
- Running CIA Operations Against Iraq
- Rumsfeld, General Franks and the Iraq War Plan
- The Intelligence Behind Iraq’s WMD Claims
- Chief of Station in New Delhi
- India, China and the Fight for the Indian Ocean
- Counterintelligence and Becoming Permanently Paranoid
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.