“My Life in American Intelligence” – with Barry Zulauf

Summary Barry Zulauf (Twitter; LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss his extensive experience working across the American intelligence community. Barry is the President of the International Association for Intelligence Education.

What You’ll Learn Intelligence

What is the “Intelligence Community?”

The organizational structure of American intelligence

The establishment of the ODNI

The intelligence components of the DEA

Reflections

A life of service

Passion to serve the people

And much, much more …

Quotes of the Week “[Fentanyl] is an enormous, enormous problem and no single organization, even as big as the Defense Intelligence enterprise, can deal with it alone. So, it's going to be a lot of diplomacy and a lot of building bridges, convincing people to do the right thing.” – Barry Zulauf.

Resources SURFACE SKIM *SpyCasts*

First of Many…America’s First Female Intelligence Agency Chief with former NGA Director Letitia “Tish” Long (2023)

Espionage and the Two Queens with Kent Tiernan (2023)

Irregular Warfare & Intelligence with IWC Director Dennis Walters (2023)

El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel & Intelligence with Trial Reporter Noah Hurowitz (2022)

*Beginner Resources*

America's intelligence community, explained, The Washington Post, YouTube (2014) [2 min. video]

Members of the IC, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (n.d.) [Brief summaries of the 18 agencies]

Who We Are, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (n.d) [Short article]

DEEPER DIVE Primary Sources

The WMD Commission Report (2005)

The 9/11 Commission Report (2004)

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (2004)

The Clark Report (1955)

The Doolittle Report (1955)

National Security Act (1947)

CIA Review of the World Situation (1947)

*Wildcard Resource*

Barry mentioned early in the episode that he actually rowed into town the morning we recorded this episode – Barry shares this hobby with Teddy Roosevelt, an avid rower and the president that was instrumental in the creation of the FBI.

Check out this Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to Theodore Roosevelt that catapulted the FBI into existence.

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