Former FBI Agent, Eric O’Neill on Spies, Lies, and the Cyber Wars We’re Already Losing
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Today on the James Alteger show. They asked me to go undercover to catch Hanson in the most unique case the FBI had ever run in a job that I was never trained to do. It was a folder and in it was a cassette tape, a trash bag, and a bunch of letters. And you try to catch the most notorious spy on earth with that. During the
Cold War, he gave up our entire nuclear warfare plan and our continuity of government plan. So the Soviets would have known where to hit us with nukes, where we were going to fire and where our nuclear arsenal was, and where we'd send the president, vice president, Congress, and everybody in politics. That matters. Between the years 84 and 85, we call it the year of the spy in intelligence circles. We lost every single asset in the Soviet Union.
All of them. We had no spies. We were completely blind during the Cold War. In the espionage game, we were losing the Cold War, which a lot of people don't know. This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host.
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