Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

Enrique "Ric" Prado is a former clandestine services officer with the CIA and joins ClearanceJobs to chat about what it is like to life life as a CIA shadow warrior. Ric is a paramilitary, counter-terrorism, and special operations specialist, and a twenty-four year veteran of the CIA where he served as an Operations Officer in six overseas posts. He was Deputy Chief of Station and "Plank Owner" of the original Bin Ladin Task Force, Chief of Station in a hostile Muslim country, Chief of Operations in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center during the September 11th attacks, where Mr. Prado helped coordinate CIA/CTC's special operations (SPECOPS) activities with the National Security Council and FBI, as well as with elite U.S. military representatives from Delta Force and SEAL-Team Six, then detailed to CTC/CIA. He retired as Senior Intel Service-2 (SIS-2, Major General equivalent at CIA).This conversation is heavy on his first ten years at the agency as a paramilitary officer for the CIA's "special operations force." including 36 months in Central America jungles as the first CIA officer living in the anti-Sandinista "Contra" camps.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.