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“My Life in American Intelligence” – with Barry Zulauf


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Summary

Barry Zulauf (Twitter; LinkedIn) joins Andrew (TwitterLinkedIn) to discuss his extensive experience working across the American intelligence community. Barry is the President of the International Association for Intelligence Education. 


What You’ll LearnIntelligence
  • What is the “Intelligence Community?”
  • The organizational structure of American intelligence
  • The establishment of the ODNI
  • The intelligence components of the DEA 
  • Reflections
    • A life of service
    • Passion to serve the people 
    • And much, much more …


      Quotes of the Week

      “[Fentanyl] is an enormous, enormous problem and no single organization, even as big as the Defense Intelligence enterprise, can deal with it alone. So, it's going to be a lot of diplomacy and a lot of building bridges, convincing people to do the right thing.”  – Barry Zulauf.


      Resources SURFACE SKIM*SpyCasts*
      • First of Many…America’s First Female Intelligence Agency Chief with former NGA Director Letitia “Tish” Long (2023)
      • Espionage and the Two Queens with Kent Tiernan (2023)
      • Irregular Warfare & Intelligence with IWC Director Dennis Walters (2023)
      • El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel & Intelligence with Trial Reporter Noah Hurowitz (2022)
        *Beginner Resources*
        • America's intelligence community, explained, The Washington Post, YouTube (2014) [2 min. video]
        • Members of the IC, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (n.d.) [Brief summaries of the 18 agencies] 
        • Who We Are, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (n.d) [Short article]
          DEEPER DIVEPrimary Sources 
          • The WMD Commission Report (2005)
          • The 9/11 Commission Report (2004) 
          • The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (2004)
          • The Clark Report (1955)
          • The Doolittle Report (1955)
          • National Security Act (1947)
          • CIA Review of the World Situation (1947) 
            *Wildcard Resource*
            • Barry mentioned early in the episode that he actually rowed into town the morning we recorded this episode – Barry shares this hobby with Teddy Roosevelt, an avid rower and the president that was instrumental in the creation of the FBI.
            • Check out this Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to Theodore Roosevelt that catapulted the FBI into existence. 
            • ...more
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