CIA Spy: "There Are 2 Types of K*lling — Only One Makes You a Monster"
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00:31You learn how to kill in two different ways.And again, the two ways that you learn how to killhave to do with the level of training that you receive.The first is called a non-intimate killing.Non-intimate death means you're not present for the killing.Imagine a drone dropping a bomb,or you setting a bomb and walking away,or sabotaging someone's car to explode,
00:53or dropping poison in a pill.Those are non-intimate killings.The person will die.But when they die, you're not there.Okay.Intimate killing takes more training, more experience, and that's more what you seeparamilitary officers do, where they are holding the knife when they stab the person,when they cut their throw, when they hang them, when they shoot them, et cetera, right?
01:15That's a very intimate version of killing.You need people to learn non-intimate killing first to sensitize them to the process of takingsomeone's life.You can't throw somebody into intimate killing and not expectthem to have some kind of trauma.Even in the military, you see this in the United States where they will show troopsfootage of combat.And then they will show troops footage of intimate killing, right?
01:43This person shoots that person.They'll show them body disposal.They'll show them surgery.They'll show them all sorts of blood and guts and violence to get them sensitized to what theywill have to do when they're on the battlefield.field. And they do that in a way to prevent against post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD.How did you get desensitized?So first, they started my career very much without killing. I didn't have to hurt anybody.
02:10And you travel the world. And what happens when you travel the world is you see howdangerous the world is. So I didn't have to hurt anybody, but you can see people hurting each otherwhen you travel the world. When you go to China, when you go to India, when you go to Afghanistanor Vietnam or Cambodia, when you travel to Mexico, when you travel through Chile, you'll see pain.You'll see people with incredible infections on the street.You'll see dead bodies in the street.You'll see, you know, people poisoned and defecating or vomiting.Like, you see terrible things that don't exist in the average American experience.
02:47And as you see those things over time, you start to build up a tolerance for the fact that human beings are just animals.that's the first step to being able to kill someone,not seeing them as a person,seeing them as an animal,just a creature,just a biological mass,not any different than a wolf or a coyote,a bird, or a deer.
03:09That was kind of the first step for me.And then after I could start seeing people as animals,then we started identifying that some animals keep you safeand some animals cause you harm.Right?And during my time,especially,there was a focus on extremism,
03:23specifically Islamic extremists.And terrorists intend to do harm. They're animals that do harm. And the West, Americans and French andCanadians and British, we're animals that try to keep things peaceful. So what does a peaceful animal doto keep a harmful animal away? It hurts the harmful animal. So that's how I started getting migratedinto more operations that were offensive in nature, not just intelligence collection in nature.And I started working in covert action and joint operations. And then we started using buildingand planning operations that would use military, joint military equipment to execute operationsagainst terrorist strongholds and terrorist organizations.
04:03And now when you see that you have a drone in the sky and you see the heat signatures of peopleon the ground and then you give the order to fire the hellfire missile or fire whateverbomb is being dropped, you see an explosion.It's a giant ball of red and blue and orange.And then it goes away and all those little heat signatures have stopped moving.And then you see more heat signatures move in because the military moves in to verify that everybody's been killed.And then thumbs up, mission success, and you give each other high fives and you move on to the next target.That's a non-intimate killing.
04:37But it's very hard to go from college to dropping bombs on people.So they have to walk you through a process.What's the most brutal training you underwent?The hardest training for me was cold exposure.And a lot of cold exposure training is married with,first responder or field medic training because when you expose somebody to cold for long periods of time,their body starts to react. And it's a perfect opportunity for you to also practice medical triage.When do they need fluids? When do they need covered? When do they need to stop the exercise?
05:12And I'm not a very big guy. So I get cold very quickly. And when I get cold, my whole body wants tostop working. My brain wants to stop thinking. My body wants to start shivering. I can't, I can'tkeep my hands still. And going through that training was was brutal. It was very difficult for me.I remember being there with other people who were unfazed by the cold. I've met people.If you haven't discovered your natural-born spy skills, then somebody else may be using theirsagainst you. CIA teaches us there are only three types of people. Those who manipulate,those who motivate, and those who are being controlled by one of the other two.I built a three-minute CIA-style quiz designed to help you unlock your secret psychological advantage
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06:28And I think the reason that I'm calling it brutal for me is because it showed me how weakI was in one specific area.And that's a humiliating feeling to discover how bad you are.What's the training that probably you didn't find hard or maybe even you didn't even gothrough that training.But something that you've heard of which happens in the CIA.and it's like really brutal,it's dangerous and something that you would never want it to happen.
06:53In professional intelligence, it's nothing like the movies.And when people try to tell you a story that sounds like the movies,it's a good chance that the story isn't real.Because they are always working, especially during training,they have to prevent against trauma.And if you just think about that simple thing,you have to prevent against trauma during trainingbecause if you traumatize someone in training,
07:15they're a broken operator.They'll never be able to operate in the field.So it's like building your house and breaking your window when you're building the house.What's the point?You have to replace the window.So much of training is very controlled.It's watered down in a way that it isn't scary.It isn't traumatic.
07:35It's challenging.It's difficult, but it isn't traumatizing.So we had to go through advanced interrogation training.How to give advanced interrogations, how to receive advanced interrogations.But all the stuff that you see in the movies about people being slapped.And I think there's a James Bond movie where they have a chair and his testicles are cut out of the chair so they can hit his balls underneath the chair.That's not the stuff that we train on because that's very, very unlikely to happen in the field.It's not realistic.
08:04And if you were to train someone that way, you would ruin them.You would traumatize them or they would come out of that and they say, fuck this.I'm never doing this job.So you have to counterbalance the two.I say that because I want to make sure people understand that when you use the word brutal,most training isn't brutal.The real world is brutal.Training is not.
08:25Training is difficult and challenging to prepare you for a brutal reality.You said you went all around the world and you saw how dangerous the world was.What's the most dangerous thing you saw?So I remember being in South Asia.and there are these gangs of kids in South Asia that are that you think that they're just beggar kids.You think that they're just like homeless kids begging.But they're actually all managed by an adult who's almost like a like a pimp or a manager for the kids.And their job is to go out and beg from tourists, beg from locals, bring their money back, give it to their master.
09:10And then their master gives them food, right?because the kids can't use the money without the master.And the master is in control of the food, which is what the kids really want.Well, sometimes the master also coordinates with gangs.So then the kids can actually go out and funnel people into an alleyway or they can get people into a group.And then a gang of adults can come up and actually mug the people.And I've seen this in Africa.I've seen this in South Asia.
09:38And it's a very scary thing because the people who are being rounded up don't know it'shappening. So here's 20 laughing, giggly kids who all come out of like a corner and they'll putfive tourists into a circle. And the tourists are like giving away dollars and giving away candy orwhatever else. And then you'll have this group of seven or eight adults come out with knives,um, tire irons, poles, axes, whatever. And they will mug the adults. And they'll take them,take their watches, take their passports, take their credit cards, take their money.And if anybody tries to resist, they make an example out of them.So somebody says, hey, you can't do this.
10:17And they hit him over the face with an axe.And then all of a sudden he's got a big split in his face.And I watch this stuff happen all over the world, but particularly in third world countries.I watch this stuff happen.And the hardest thing is you're trained not to intercede because you're in that country illegally.You're there undercover.Now your passport is not yours.Your driver's license not yours.
10:39Everything's fraudulent.So you can't get involved because if you get involved,you're going to have to do a police report.You might get interrogated.You might get questioned about what you saw.And none of your cover is going to hold up.So you watch these things happen to innocent people.Sometimes you watch them happen to people that you don't like anyways.
10:55I've watched Russians get mugged in foreign countries.And it doesn't make me feel better that they're Russian, right?It makes me still feel like they didn't realize what was happening to them.But let's try to talk a little bit specific about India.Okay.Because you went on the record and you said,said that India has one of the top two agencies in the world, right? There's Raw and there'sthe Intelligence Bureau, which is IB. These are the two. Why did you say so? What made you say
11:24so? Because people don't realize it. And part of the reason people don't realize how goodIndian intelligence is is because Indian intelligence is so good. The research and analysiswing, Raw, is a very close collaborator with the West. They are very effective at being able toidentify terrorist activities, threats to the homeland, counterterrorism, counterintelligence.And that capability is largely informed because of their relationship with the West,with the French, with the British, with the Americans, with the Germans, the Canadians.So there's this close partnership between Indian R-A-W and Western intelligence.and that gives them the best resources and gives them the best training,
12:11but it also gives them access to all the intelligence capabilities of those Western services.That said, what India is the most focused on is Pakistan.So almost all of their efforts are really focused on counseling Pakistan,which makes it simpler for them because they don't have to look at 160 other countries.They only have to look at one.They will look at China, because China is a growing threat.They will look at, you know, other countries in the region, and they'll keep an eye on factions inside India that are working against the government.But their primary goal is Pakistan.
12:46And Pakistan's primary intelligence service, the ISI, uses terrorist tactics.This is something that's so important that people don't understand.Pakistan's federal intelligence service are using terrorist tactics in India.They're blowing things up.They're killing people.They carry out atrocities that the United States deems illegal, that the UN deems illegal.But it's so delicate with Pakistan that people continue to cooperate with them.Why?
13:22It was the West that really caused the division between India and Pakistan in 1947.It's important.It's not like India and Pakistan always hated each other.India is primarily Hindu and Pakistan is primarily Muslim.The British really came in in 1947 and decided, hey, here's the Muslim part.We'll call it Pakistan.Here's the Hindu part.We'll call it India.
13:43And then ever since then, there's been conflict because you can't divide a country based on tribal alliances like that.So much of the animosity between Pakistan and India happened because of the West.Didn't happen because of them.From that animosity, they had to lean into their own strengths.Pakistan's a small country with very few natural resources.India is a large country with a great deal of natural resources.So as India built its commercial enterprise, Pakistan had to lean into its Islamic rootsand rely on partners in the Arab world to keep it alive, to help it build its infrastructure,
14:20to help it build its own economic base.So what that means is India became independent.They became Indian.Pakistan became Arab.They didn't identify as Pakistani as much as they identified as Muslim.And that's a big part of what we see now, because now, 70 years later, India has a national identity as Indian.Pakistan has a national identity, but it doesn't trump its religious identity as Islamic.So they will use tactics that are being used by all across Islam, including Islamic fundamentalism.
14:56But India refuses to use fundamentalist tactics because it identifies as a nation first.that's also why India is the preferred nation over Pakistan worldwide.And I understand that's going to make Pakistanis pissed, but the truth is the truth.People see the value of India.They don't see the value of Pakistan.People understand India is a commercial, growing, entrepreneurial, manufacturing hub, tech hub of the world.Pakistan is not.Pakistan is just a strategic geographic ally that sits between the east and the west.
15:31you go back to the global war on terror. Pakistan harbors terrorism. It hides terrorists,including Osama bin Laden. It lies to its allies. It's a complicated, difficult place that alsohas nuclear weapons, right? India is trying to become first world. India is trying to establish andgrow itself as a competitor to the Chinese and to the United States by making itself an alliesthe Chinese in the United States. But there is no comparison between India and Pakistan on many, manylevels. But the reason that Pakistan turns to these terrorist tactics is because it's theiradvantage in their Islamic community to use tactics and to lean into fundamentalist Islam and theseshreds of terrorist cells that continue to exist. So your decaf oatmeal extra but not piping
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