Luis Rueda
Book Review - Forget the Alamo
Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford This is a timely book given current national debates on culture...
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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
- Jun 22, 2021
- 12 min
TRIGON
I am going to do something different. I am going to tell a story. First, I will set the background. This takes place in the 1970s, the...
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Luis Rueda
- Jun 17, 2021
- 5 min
The Sky is on Fire
First, I would like to apologize to the two or three people who read this blog for not posting in a while. My Editor/Producer and her...
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Luis Rueda
- May 25, 2021
- 7 min
A Rebuttal to Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson: A nation's well-being hinges on only a few factors – is US teetering on the edge of ruin? | Fox News...
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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 9, 2021
- 6 min
American Education and the 1619 Project
This is an extremely difficult topic to wrap myself around. There is a lot of anger and fear associated with this topic, as well as...
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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
- Apr 28, 2021
- 7 min
National Security Background - Iran
As I noted in my previous post on national security background, we need to understand the other side, we need to view the situation from...
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Luis Rueda
- Mar 29, 2021
- 5 min
I Need an Argument for Guns
I say this seriously, not as a joke. I have always owned guns, I like guns. I have been trained by some fine instructors on the use of a...
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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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Luis Rueda
- Mar 17, 2021
- 4 min
Intelligence and HUMINT
This is a hard topic to get started. The difficulty lies in how to explain this to people who don’t do it for a living. There is so much...
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Luis Rueda
- Mar 17, 2021
- 7 min
World War II in the Pacific
I just finished reading Ian W. Toll’s Pacific War Trilogy. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in WWII in the Pacific, or in...
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