there. one is an analytic culture, people who try to assess things, figure out what is actually happening somewhere and project ahead, and an operational culture that is people who go out and collect intelligence, develop human spies, handle them, run them, if you will. the unique thing about alex station was the fusion of analysis and operations. we pushed the analysts and the operations people together so the operations people knew everything the analysts were thinking and the analysts knew everything the operations people were doing. >> the people i worked with in the beginning were six women. i walked in my first day there, i turned around to my colleagues, it's a bay of six analysts and i said does anybody have any tums and all these drawers opened with these gigantic bottles. oh, my god, what have i done to myse. >> when i moved over, there was a group of women that i reached