The CIA has launched its own podcast. It is 'important to try to explain ourselves as best we can and to demystify a little bit of what we do,' the agency's director says in the first episode.
"Our job is to tell policymakers what they need to hear, not what they want to hear," CIA Director William Burns says on the new podcast.Sept. 22, 2022, 6:08 PM UTCThe CIA launched its own podcast Thursday, saying it wanted to step out from the shadows to “demystify” its spy work and to help Americans understand the intelligence agency’s role.
Burns said the CIA’s work did not resemble spy movies, a “world of heroic individuals who drive fast cars and defuse bombs and solve world crises all on their own every day.” The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies “were able to paint a pretty clear picture of Putin’s plans to mount a major new invasion of Ukraine last fall, months before he actually launched that invasion on the 24th of February,” Burns said.
CIA press secretary Susan Miller called the podcast “a major milestone” for the agency, representing “the latest in CIA’s ongoing efforts to be as open as possible with the public, sharing what we can about our mission, people, and history.” “It’s a tally of the lives of stranded American citizens and Afghan partners, partners who had fought and bled with us over two decades in Afghanistan. A tally of lives that our officers, working very closely with partners in the U.S. military and the State Department, helped to save,” he said.
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