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Former CIA Spies: "The CIA Tried To Ban This Story!" We're Leaving The US by 2030!

153 min episode · 2 min read
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Former Cia Spies

Episode

153 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Productivity, Product & Tech Trends

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Key Takeaways

  • Surveillance Detection Routes: CIA officers execute three-phase detection routes to identify surveillance teams: suspect in phase one, confirm in phase two using multiple sightings across locations, then collect intelligence on the team in phase three while appearing oblivious to their presence.
  • Shadow Cell Structure: The couple built a terrorist-inspired cell model with eight CIA officers in a friendly country adjacent to their target nation, using compartmentalization where each member knew only their specific role to prevent the mole from accessing their new intelligence sources.
  • Cleansing Routes: Operatives travel from friendly countries through neutral third countries where they swap passports and identities before entering hostile territory, preventing adversaries from tracking them back to their actual origin point and establishing false patterns of life.
  • Digital Vulnerability: Intelligence services routinely clone electronic devices during border crossings without passwords using commercially available technology. American companies including major social networks cooperate with CIA requests through FISA warrants, providing access to private accounts for national security investigations.
  • Commercial Cover Operations: CIA creates both fake and real profitable businesses as operational fronts, with profits funding the black budget alongside seized assets. Officers can establish intelligence operations with just one hundred twenty seven dollars to create an LLC as commercial cover.

What It Covers

Former CIA officers Andrew and Gigi Bustamante reveal their classified operation to expose a mole within the CIA who was feeding intelligence to an adversarial country, detailing their undercover deployment and near-capture in hostile territory.

Key Questions Answered

  • Surveillance Detection Routes: CIA officers execute three-phase detection routes to identify surveillance teams: suspect in phase one, confirm in phase two using multiple sightings across locations, then collect intelligence on the team in phase three while appearing oblivious to their presence.
  • Shadow Cell Structure: The couple built a terrorist-inspired cell model with eight CIA officers in a friendly country adjacent to their target nation, using compartmentalization where each member knew only their specific role to prevent the mole from accessing their new intelligence sources.
  • Cleansing Routes: Operatives travel from friendly countries through neutral third countries where they swap passports and identities before entering hostile territory, preventing adversaries from tracking them back to their actual origin point and establishing false patterns of life.
  • Digital Vulnerability: Intelligence services routinely clone electronic devices during border crossings without passwords using commercially available technology. American companies including major social networks cooperate with CIA requests through FISA warrants, providing access to private accounts for national security investigations.
  • Commercial Cover Operations: CIA creates both fake and real profitable businesses as operational fronts, with profits funding the black budget alongside seized assets. Officers can establish intelligence operations with just one hundred twenty seven dollars to create an LLC as commercial cover.

Notable Moment

Andrew locked eyes with a surveillance operative at three feet distance while holding a toy rifle in an arcade, both professionals simultaneously recognizing their mistake. The adversary's jaw dropped as he realized he had exposed himself while searching for Andrew, confirming the operation was compromised.

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Episode Transcript

Know when you're in a meeting, taking notes, trying to focus, but your devices keep pinging notifications? For me, that's really annoying. And usually, it makes your brain start to wander away and fall into distraction. This was happening to my producer, Jack. And we were chatting about it when I realized that I knew the exact product that would fix this problem for him. It's from our sponsor, reMarkable. Essentially, it's a paper tablet with no notifications, so it's far less distracting than most tablets. It's called the Remarkable Paper Pro Move, and it really does look, feel, and sound the same as writing on paper, which is really nice if you spend a lot of time taking notes. But because it's digital, your handwritten notes can be converted into typed text, and then you can send it over email or Slack or just keep editing it within the app. All of their products have no blue light which for someone who looks at screens as much as I do is something I really appreciate. Remarkable is offering a fifty day trial on their products for free and at the end of that time, if it's not what you're looking for, you simply get all of your money back by sending it back. Give the present of being present. Find the perfect distraction free paper tablet at remarkable.com. When this story hits the airwaves, it's going to transform people's opinion about CIA and the depths to which CIA will dive to collect intelligence that protects Americans. So one of its own officers became a spy reporting our secrets to a foreign adversary. My wife and I were included in an operation to bait the mole to make a mistake so that the mole could be found and disclosed. Your wife is here today, and you've never told this story before, have you? No. And your curiosity right now is a major issue with CIA because they don't want the world to know who those people are. It's a dangerous game. Well, obviously, my research team tried to figure out who it was. So was this the mole? Married CIA spies, Andrew and Gigi Bustamante, were tasked with unraveling one of the greatest intelligence operations in modern history. Their untold story shows you how to build foreign ally contacted CIA and said you have somebody inside your organization sharing information on Operation have somebody inside your organization sharing information on operations, officers, assets to an enemy country. They deployed us to the country and crafted new identities, new aliases, so that we could build new sources of intelligence and try to find them more. And we were really successful in doing that. Nobody felt like they were in imminent danger, but then that changed. My presence in the enemy country became known. I called G and said I'm coming home early. And from that, I knew that something was wrong because it is very real that you can be disappeared …

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