Best of Danger Close: Spycraft and Intelligence - Danger Close with Jack Carr

NOTE: In the coming weeks, Jack is releasing a series of “best of” collections from the Danger Close archives. Each episode contains portions of past interviews, all centered around a theme or topic. Today’s episode features conversations with current and former members of the intelligence community and intelligence analysts.

Danger Close is an IRONCLAD original.

FEATURED INTERVIEWS:

DOUGLAS LONDON

Douglas London is a retired senior CIA operations officer. He served as a U.S. Marine before joining the CIA in 1984 where he worked for 34 years. Today, Doug is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute.

Full Interview

RIC PRADO

Ric Prado is a retired CIA operations officer who specialized in paramilitary, counter-terrorism and special/clandestine operations. He retired as the CIA equivalent of a two-star general after serving for 24 years. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Black Ops.

Full Interview

CLINT EMERSON

Clint Emerson is an author, an entrepreneur, survival expert, podcast host, and is the only SEAL ever to be inducted into the International Spy Museum. He is the author of the books The Rugged Life, The Right Kind of Crazy, and Boy Scout from Hell, and the 100 Deadly Skills series. He also hosts Can You Survive This Podcast?

Full Interview

SAMUEL KATZ

Samuel Katz is an expert on the Middle East, counterterrorism, and special operations.

He is the author and co-author who has written more than 20 books including The Ghost Warriors, No Shadows in the Desert, and Beirut Rules.

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MARC POLYMEROPOULOS

Marc Polymeropoulos retired from the CIA in 2019 after 26 years of service. He is the author of the book Clarity in Crisis.

Marc serves as senior fellow in the Forward Defense practice of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

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FRED BURTON

Fred Burton is a former police officer, Diplomatic Security Service special agent, author, and security consultant. He also hosts The Ontic Protective Intelligence Podcast.

Full Interview

DAVID KILCULLEN

David Kilcullen is an author and one of the world’s foremost counterinsurgency experts. He served in the Australian military for more than 20 years before being recruited as the Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism for the U.S. State Department. He was also a counterinsurgency adviser to NATO and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

Full Interview

KARA FREDERICK

Kara Frederick serves as the director of The Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation. She previously served as a counterterrorism analyst at the Department of Defense and was a Senior Intelligence Analyst for a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command.

Following her time at the Department of Defense, she helped create Facebook’s Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program.

Full Interview

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Danger Close is an IRONCLAD original.