Marc Polymeropoulos, fmr CIA Operations Officer

Marc served 26 years at the CIA as an operations officer and later in leadership of the Senior Intelligence service. He's recruited spies, been a spy, and had an amazing host of life experiences you can't make up. Some of what we covered: -Why you won’t find a lot of intelligence officers hanging out with Iranian or Russians in their free time -Why he felt his job was the ultimate adventure travel job -How his Greek family never knew where he worked until he retired -What it was like to learn the art of espionage -What it was like to be woken up every morning by rockets exploding on his base in Afghanistan -Why he’d love to go back to Iraq but will probably skip on revisiting Afghanistan -The approach to evaluating information he learned at the agency that he wishes the general public would take incorporate into every day life. -The Intelligence community’s frequent flyer sub-culture Smash the subscribe button and if you listen on apple podcasts, would be amazing if you could rate and review the show! Find Marc on twitter here: https://twitter.com/Mpolymer Follow me on social: https://linktr.ee/ianagrimis