STORIES OF A WAR HERO

This episode of the Fearless Mindset Podcast is the first part of our conversation with Enrique "Ric" Prado, Air Force paratrooper, CIA senior operations officer, and bestselling author of Black Ops. 

He shares war stories, from the behind-the-scenes work of the CIA to the patriotism of Blackwater in defending our allies. He talks about Black Ops as a challenge to how mainstream media portrays the agency and even says that the CIA had to review the book first before it got published. 

Enrique also shares anecdotes about Blackwater's Erik Prince which many may not know, such as the patriotism of the organization and his personal willingness to lead from the front. He also comments on the loyalty of the CIA to the people, as well as the dynamic of the agency with the president.

GOLDEN NUGGETS

Despite the bad press, Blackwater was patriotic - Enrique: "There's a lot of bad press out there on Erik Prince and I haven't talked to him in probably 10 years, or at least 6 or 8. But at the time that I knew him, the time that I was working with Blackwater, I was in awe of the patriotism that permeated every corner of that organization. And a lot of that had to do with Erik, you know, all the super duper programs that I was running, which were very successful with both the DoD and the agency, it was never a contractual thing for Erik."

Blackwater's selflessness to protect allies - Enrique: "There was the Polish ambassador to Iraq. He was driving around with his PSD, not a Blackwater PSD, and they got hit and hit hard, taking an enormous amount of casualties. He himself was wounded or burnt or something like that. They hit their tracker and there was a Blackwater unit not too far from there. They responded. They took care of the bad guys and saved the ambassador and everybody else. And that was, again, that wasn't a contractual thing. They were taking a risk doing something that they would get no remuneration for."

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