Luis Rueda
The Pitfalls of Covert Action
Coups, assassinations, clandestine radio stations, economic warfare, insurgency, and counterinsurgency are all the stuff of covert action....
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Luis Rueda
- Aug 30, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 11 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 11 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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
- May 18, 2022
- 3 min
The Upcoming Personnel Crisis at the CIA
Years ago when I worked at the CIA, I was part of a few panels and groups working to tackle a variety of personnel issues at the Agency....
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Luis Rueda
- Apr 29, 2022
- 11 min
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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Luis Rueda
- Mar 20, 2022
- 5 min
The Intelligence Assault on the West
Agent of Influence: An agent of some stature who uses his or her position to influence public opinion or decision-making to produce...
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Luis Rueda
- Sep 29, 2021
- 4 min
The CIA Proposed Assassinating Julian Assange?
Julian Assange A recent Yahoo News article (http://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-pitched-trump-officials-plans-130727657.html) reported that the...
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Luis Rueda
- Sep 27, 2021
- 10 min
The History of CIA Covert Action - The Bay of Pigs - 1961
(Note: This one is near and dear to my heart. It is because of the Bay of Pigs covert action program that I am here in the U.S. and that...
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Luis Rueda
- Sep 21, 2021
- 9 min
The History of CIA Covert Action - Guatemala - 1954
(Note: This is not a detailed history of the 1954 Guatemala Coup. That would require too much space for a blog post. In addition, there...
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Luis Rueda
- Aug 10, 2021
- 9 min
The History of CIA Covert Action - Iran - 1953
It shall be the duty of the Agency to perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as...
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Luis Rueda
- Jun 29, 2021
- 4 min
The Liaison Trap
Liaison: communication or cooperation which facilitates a close working relationship between people or organizations. Most intelligence...
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Luis Rueda
- Jun 24, 2021
- 12 min
TRIGON Part 2
Now that TRIGON had agreed to what the CIA calls "work inside," serious preparations had to be made before he departed for home, Moscow....
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Luis Rueda
- May 19, 2021
- 7 min
The Life of a Case Officer
I have been wanting to write on this topic for a while and have had a few false starts. The problem is there really isn’t a typical day...
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Luis Rueda
- May 4, 2021
- 6 min
Diversity AT CIA
Several years ago I was sitting with a group of friends. We had all worked together at the Agency, I had even worked for some of them....
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Luis Rueda
- Mar 18, 2021
- 5 min
How To Use Intelligence
This seems like an obvious thing but most people without experience in the national security field, and even some with that experience,...
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