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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...

Luis Rueda
Jun 29, 20214 min read
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The Liaison Trap
Liaison: communication or cooperation which facilitates a close working relationship between people or organizations. Most intelligence...

Luis Rueda
Jun 29, 20214 min read
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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....

Luis Rueda
Jun 24, 202112 min read
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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...

Luis Rueda
Jun 22, 202112 min read
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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...

Luis Rueda
Jun 17, 20215 min read
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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...

Luis Rueda
May 25, 20217 min read
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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...

Luis Rueda
May 19, 20217 min read
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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...

Luis Rueda
May 9, 20216 min read
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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....

Luis Rueda
May 4, 20216 min read
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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...

Luis Rueda
Apr 28, 20217 min read
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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...

Luis Rueda
Mar 29, 20215 min read
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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,...

Luis Rueda
Mar 18, 20215 min read
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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...

Luis Rueda
Mar 17, 20214 min read
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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...

Luis Rueda
Mar 17, 20217 min read
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