Recorded this event in november of 2017. We are fortunate to have an old friend with us, richard schroeder, a former officer with the cia clandestine service. He began his career under the cia in 1972. After two years in the army as an Intelligence Officer for the army stuff in washington, the u. S. Military command in vietnam. He consults on National Security and teaches that georgetown. He is a founding Advisory Board member here at the International Spy museum. He is the author of a new book, the foundation of the cia, harry truman, the missouri gang, and the origins of the cold war. You are not here to listen to me talk. Rick, come on up. [applause] thank you for coming out when you could be over at the Christmas Market across the street. As vince said, i have been a cia officer for running on to 50 years now. For the last 20 years, i have taught intelligence courses at Georgetown School of foreign service. In teaching at georgetown, i have discovered, as well as from participating
The u. S. Military command in vietnam, with his retirement from the cia he went to the Georgetown School foreign service. Hes also founding member, and is the author of a new book the foundations of the cia harry truman, and the origins of a cold war. Rick, come on up. Think you all for coming out when you could be at the Christmas Market across the street. I appreciate that. As vince said ive been with the sea i a for going on 50 years. For the last 20 years ive taught intelligence in georgetown. In teaching their at george town ive discovered from participating with the museum that theres a great interest in the cia and the general subject of National Intelligence. Also considerable misunderstanding, suspicion and outright hostile itty about National Intelligence. So one of the reasons that i wrote this book is as a primer to try to explain not to knowledgeable people like yourself or my colleague, but the general public what it is that the Intelligence Community does, and the kinds
Good morning, everyone. We are so glad youre starting your morning with us. Good morning. Happy monday. Its good to be back. A lot of news. A lot of news to get to, so lets get started with five things to know this monday, august 14th. Breaking overnight, 96, that is the death count so far from the hawaii wildfires and only 3 of the Disaster Area has been searched. The governor calling it a Fire Hurricane. It spread faster than a mile a minute, and now a new lawsuit against the states main electric provide r. Hours from now the Fulton County District Attorney is expected to present her case to the grand jury in the Georgia Election subversion case. This means a potential fourth indictment looms over former President Trump. Cnn learns exclusively about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. And a home explodes outside of pittsburgh killing five. Gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials, who say it could take months to figure out what happened. A new serious concern
But as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to Nuclear Power stations. Almost unnoticed by the outside world, President Biden has been pushing ahead with wide ranging plans to replace chinese goods with American Made ones. The bbc s economics editor, faisal islam, has been investigating the extent of this new America First policy. I was astounded by the scale and the speed of the transformation in terms of the deployment of public, government, Taxpayer Subsidy into Strategic Industries, particularly green industries. Theres so much money going in that its transforming the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. We used to talk about the rust belt. They are now talking about a battery belt. It sounds rather sort of roosevelt years, doesnt it . Yes, and theres some conscious echoes of that. Indeed, where i was in kent
Hockey just across the way. Thats right. Theyre getting warming up for a rivalry. Were in the middle of the action for now, though, and we need to chant along with them, usa. Usa i cant wait well get right to todays top story. We are in the middle of several olympic events right now. So, here is what happened so far this morning. The americans failed to win a medal this morning in the womens superg. Austriana fenninger got the gold and Julia Mancuso came in eighth. And Eddie Alvarez was eliminated after separate crashes. There was a lot of action, though, last night from a roughandtumble night for mens figure skating to one of our favorite moments so far. Noelle pikuspace has that olympic medal she finally has it this morning, silvers never seemed so sweet. Oh, my goodness thank you, thank you, thank you so much 31yearold noelle pikuspace came out of retirement in the hopes of winning an olympic medal in womens skeleton. Friday, she did just that. And in one of the most memorable celeb