How Bad Intelligence Helped Sell the Iraq War | Luis Rueda (throwback episode)

original air date - 01/19/24Former 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/TheTeamHouse00:00 - Start01:07 - Growing Up in Cuba and Fleeing After the Bay of Pigs03:50 - Being Recruited by the CIA07:07 - Training at the CIA’s Farm13:28 - The CIA and the Invasion of Grenada24:39 - CIA Operations in Central America39:44 - The CIA’s War on Drug Cartels50:17 - Cuban Intelligence Tries to Recruit Him55:14 - Eastern European Intelligence Operations After the Cold War1:01:23 - Running CIA Operations Against Iraq1:09:00 - Rumsfeld, General Franks and the Iraq War Plan1:18:09 - The Intelligence Behind Iraq’s WMD Claims1:28:51 - Chief of Station in New Delhi1:37:07 - India, China and the Fight for the Indian Ocean1:52:12 - Counterintelligence and Becoming Permanently ParanoidBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.