C.I.A SPY BLACK OPS With Ric Prado 02/010/23

Born in Cuba, Prado and his family were caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, and fledtheir war-torn home for a better life in the U.S. Fifty years after that daring escape, he retiredfrom the CIA as the agency’s equivalent of a Two-Star General. During his two-and-a-halfdecade career, he was one of the agency’s best and most dedicated Black Ops specialists.Early in his career he served as a paramilitary officer in the agency’s elite Special ActivitiesGroup, where he fought alongside the Contras in the U.S.’s clandestine war against Nicaragua’sSandinistas. Through his heroism and dedicated service there, he was awarded the CIA’sIntelligence Medal of Merit. As soon as he returned stateside, however, he faced the politicalfiring squad of the Iran-Contra Scandal.His career took him around the globe in duty stations in Central and South America as well asthe Philippines. Following those posts, Prado joined the highest echelons of the CIAheadquarters in Langley, VA. Toward the end of 1995, Prado was appointed Deputy Chief ofStation and co-founding member of the Bin Laden Task Force, followed by three years as headof Korean Operations. It was at that point that he took on one of the most dangerous missions ofhis career, re-establishing a once-abandoned CIA station inside a hostile nation long sinceconsidered a front line of the fight against Islamic terrorism. Prado carried out covert operationsand developed assets that proved pivotal in the coming War on Terror. As Chief of Operationsfor the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, he was one of the architects of the agency’s covert war todestroy Al Qaeda in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forbidden-realms-late-night-show-with-gary--2788432/support.