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How Bad Intelligence Helped Sell the Iraq War | Luis Rueda (throwback episode)
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original air date - 01/19/24 Former CIA officer Luis Rueda reflects on a career that took him from fleeing Castro’s Cuba to covert operations in Central America, Grenada, the drug war, Iraq, and eventually serving as Chief of Station in New Delhi. He also breaks down the failures behind the Iraq War, the reality of intelligence work, and what decades in the CIA taught him about power, policy, and counterintelligence. Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTeamHouse 00:00 - Start 01:07 - Growing Up in Cuba and Fleeing After the Bay of Pigs 03:50 - Being Recruited by the CIA 07:07 - Training at the CIA’s Farm 13:28 - The CIA and the Invasion of Grenada 24:39 - CIA Operations in…