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Luis Rueda
Sep 20, 20224 min read
Ukraine
There has been considerable celebration over Ukraine's offensive against Russia. The Ukrainians have liberated large parts of their...
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Luis Rueda
Aug 30, 20224 min read
Trump and Classified Material at Mar-a-Lago
I normally try to avoid much of the political warfare going on in the US nowadays in this blog, but the recent FBI seizure of classified...
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Luis Rueda
Aug 27, 20227 min read
Morality and Intelligence...And Beyond
I was watching a portion of a podcast on TikTok, hence the watching rather than listening, where the concept of enhanced interrogation,...
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Luis Rueda
Aug 15, 202211 min read
The World's Foreign Intelligence Organizations
I periodically get asked which is the best intelligence agency in the world. There are a number of articles that try to answer that...
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Luis Rueda
Aug 9, 20224 min read
A Beginners Guide to Counterintelligence
Bridge of Spies Recently, I sat had dinner with an author specializing in intelligence matters. Over the course of the evening, we had...
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Luis Rueda
Jul 13, 20225 min read
Is The CIA Risk Averse?
Much has been written in the media about the CIA being risk-averse. Even some former CIA officers have commented on how the CIA avoids...
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Luis Rueda
Jun 28, 202211 min read
What Mistakes We Make - The Iron Commander - Part 1
Stan Smith - Drawn Feet Wiki (miraheze.org) (This is a true story with the names changed to protect the guilty and locations obscured.)...
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Luis Rueda
May 26, 20228 min read
What Makes An Operations Officer
I get this question a lot, mostly from people interested in joining the CIA, or from people who were not selected and are wondering why....
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Luis Rueda
Apr 29, 202211 min read
The Case Officer - Agent Relationship
The CIA does two principal things, collect and analyze intelligence. Within the CIA, the Directorate of Operations (DO) collects human...
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