CIA Officer in Charge of Taking Down the AQ Khan Network | James Lawler | Ep. 125

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an in-depth look at the mechanics of intelligence work from a veteran who ran a nonproliferation operation.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Team House

Topic

cia counterproliferation

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• For anyone is into this kind of thing I would suggest checking out The Team House on YouTube which has a lot of very in-depth interviews with some very recently retired CIA folks talking about their experiences in the field. Given a lot of the …

• Here are two very in-depth interviews with two recently retired individuals who get into a lot of the mechanics of how that works in reality. Doug London [LINK] Jim Lawler [VIDEO]

• I think you might be a bit hung up here on the word software which in your defence is not the correct word here. Replace it with “operation” and it’s not at all a crazy number to suggest that an incredibly complicated multi year multi …