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Right this moment we now have a singular Fight Story from very long time veteran, CIA officer, and coverage maker: the Honorable Mike Vickers. Mike spent 10 years within the Inexperienced Berets with tenth Special Forces Group as each an enlisted Weapons Sergeant and Officer, together with command of a counterterrorism ingredient working in Europe through the Chilly Conflict.
He then transitioned to one of the impactful jobs in Chilly Conflict historical past because the Program Officer overseeing the covert motion program to battle and finally defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan. His first assignments within the Company earlier than going to coaching have been in stark distinction to my very own as Mike went on to a conflict zone (a narrative we start the podcast with as a result of it’s so distinctive) with nothing however his polo, linen pants, loafers, operational money and a firearm!
Mike would go on to very senior ranges within the authorities, together with the Underneath Secretary of Protection for Intelligence and the Assistant Secretary of Protection for Particular Operations, Low Depth Conflicts, and Interdependent Capabilities the place he performed an instrumental function in so many aspects of our nationwide safety coverage, to incorporate pioneering drone capabilities to focus on Al-Qaida all over the world and serving to get the mandatory assist for the raid to kill Bin Laden.
I discovered this to be an enchanting piece of historical past and one which Mike particulars in his e-book, By All Means Obtainable: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Particular Operations and Technique. I discovered Mike due to Frank Gargon, who – together with MIke- helps to lift funds to assist the Workplace of Strategic Companies (OSS) Society in constructing a museum in honor of intelligence and particular operations professionals. With that, please get pleasure from this entrance row seat to so many historic occasions over the previous 40 years.
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Present Notes:
00:00 – Intro
01:01 – Visitor Introduction
02:48 – Interview begins
04:00 – Uncommon starting on the CIA
09:40 – On the bottom in Greneda
13:36 – Rising up and give attention to the CIA
17:29 – Underachiever to Multitasker
19:20 – OSS Society Dialog Advert
20:22 – Time within the Army
23:48 – Serving alongside aspect Vietnam Troopers
27:21 – Benefit of Special Forces coaching to CIA
29:03 – Probability encounter with Gina Haspel
30:34 – Homebased and the Covert Motion Program
34:41 – Afghanistan Covert Motion Program Officer
39:28 – 4Patriots
40:47 – Stalemate in Afghanistan
41:43 – Plan to infiltrate Afghanistan
45:00 – Secret companions
45:48 – Escalation towards the Soviets
50:10 – Soviet withdrawl from Afghanistan
53:38 – A covert mission
56:17 – Afghanistan conflict put up 9/11
01:01:13 – Assistant Secretary of Protection for Particular Operations, Low Depth Conflicts, and Interdependent Capabilities
01:07:30 – The Drone Program
01:12:02 – On the bottom in Pakistan
01:13:53 – Secretary of Intel
01:17:52 – A difficult mission
01:21:42 – Constructing confidence within the Bin Laden raid
01:29:49 – Sentimental objects
01:31:03 – Do all of it once more
01:31:53 – Plan B
01:33:02 – Listener feedback and shout outs
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