Former CIA agent Shares Declassified Stories and Discusses Counterintelligence

Around Texas with Chancellor John Sharp - Season 1 Episode 4

Texas A&M University – and the Bush School of Government and Public Service, in particular – has been a favorite place of the CIA to recruit agents and analysts.

Professor Jim Olson is a big reason for that. Jim is a professor at the Bush School, where he teaches courses on intelligence and counterintelligence. He also is a former spy.

Chancellor Sharp sat down with Jim at the Bush School. They touched on a lot of topics such as catching spies, Olson’s book: To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, and China’s efforts to steal our intellectual property and how it threatens our national security.

In the episode, you will hear some incredible stories about now-declassified CIA cases. Also, former presidential advisor and cabinet member Andy Card discusses Jim’s legacy and the importance of the Bush School.

#CounterIntelligence #RussianSpies #BushSchool

[coleanc]

Jim has been a Guest Speaker at the Lockheed Martin Insider Threat Awareness Guest Speaker Series and we hope he will be a repeat performer. Love his books and they were mandatory reading as part of our curriculum in my Masters program at the National American University and my degree in Strategic Intelligence

[kylehall]

True pinnacle American. Mr.Olson is the mold all should be pressed out of.

[upsty]

Thank you for this. We have seen this coming and we know that WallStreet needs to be wrangled in also

[costcolawschool]

read the cia as organized crime by douglas valentine and surprise kill vanish
as well as operation paperclip by annie jacobsen for both sides of the story.

[diviningrod]

I love these " limited hangouts"

[clementgavi]

If it is Bush School, then it can only be a good thing. Because not everyone in high positions will perceive and conceive something, he termed points of light, in other words, how a blessing can become a blessing to others. This is a sign of blessed souls who were not hungry for themselves, but for others.

[DavidDominguez-xfmp]

No wonder we can’t keep any secrets they got the aggies running the show😂

[dustylefou]

Interesting presentation but he speaks from the perspective of a typical case officer in his blind spots about other counterintelligence areas outside of the case officer stuff. Counterintelligence investigators, referents, analysts, and functional services personnel all have their own missions.

[MethisMacs]

Great man and a perfect interview. Thanks.

[thischannelisdeleted]

These damn sofisticated Chinese! They got balloons now! HOW can we possibly stop balloons?!?!

[Spectre]

Loved the bit about Edward Lee Howard being a Longhorn

[williams.]

does anyone know if the state sponsored or oligarch assassins have the ability to assassinate someone with out it being detected? Just wondering.

[julianamuthangya]

Right now I have been burned, I am requested for all of you to help me to stop the people who were burning my brain inside . I had been burned for more than 5 months continuously by my neighbors for I take it to a territory. I'm around the Mt Holly area. I came to notice they want to kill me to be honest.

[Padoinky]

Would have liked to have heard the storyline, but the frequency of TA&M advertising vignettes, was just too darn disconcerting….

[upsty]

We need more savy counterintelligence agents.

[mppetrov]

Dont tell me they dont use Voice to Skull and all this silent and Psychotronic war weapons ?

[silverfan]

I think china has those tic tacs those UAP's.

[proudamerican]

The music in the background kills the message

[DanielSmith-lved]

Bring em out into the wilderness. You know what, dont do that. Stay away from the pine forrests

[greeneyeamy]

Listen y’all better change it to Intelligence Officer if you know what’s good for you 😂 calling them Intel Agents is a failable offense in his classes