CIA Analyst David McCloskey: How People Are Really Recruited, Manipulated, and Broken

CIA Analyst David McCloskey: How People Are Really Recruited, Manipulated, and Broken

David McCloskey is a former CIA analyst and consultant at McKinsey & Company. While at the CIA, he wrote regularly for the President’s Daily Brief, delivered classified testimony to Congressional oversight committees, and briefed senior White House officials, Ambassadors, military officials, and Arab royalty. He worked in CIA field stations across the Middle East. During his time at McKinsey, David advised national security, aerospace, and transportation clients on a range of strategic and operational issues. Get his brilliant book The Persian: A Novel in the US: https://amzn.to/3ZIH8cY Get the book UK edition here: https://amzn.eu/d/hOj2E9O Listen to The Rest is Classified here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Jn1HIW6I1AQnKVpsJHdEf?si=3df26c58499b4290 Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio. He is the host of the podcast Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci. A graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School, he lives in Manhasset, Long Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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