How Bad Intelligence Helped Sell the Iraq War | Luis Rueda (throwback episode)
Published: August 13, 2026
Duration: 1:56:25
original air date - 01/19/24
Former CIA officer Luis Rueda reflects on a career that took him from fleeing Castro’s Cuba to covert operations in Central America, Grenada, the drug war, Iraq, and eventually serving as Chief of Station in New Delhi. He also breaks down the failures behind the Iraq War, the reality of intelligence work, and what decades in the CIA taught him about power, policy, and counterintelligence.
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Former CIA officer Luis Rueda reflects on a career that took him from fleeing Castro’s Cuba to covert operations in Central America, Grenada, the drug war, Iraq, and eventually serving as Chief of Station in New Delhi. He also breaks down the failures behind the Iraq War, the reality of intelligence work, and what decades in the CIA taught him about power, policy, and counterintelligence.
Support the show here:
https://www.patreon.com/c/TheTeamHouse
00:00 - Start
01:07 - Growing Up in Cuba and Fleeing After the Bay of Pi...