How Bad Intelligence Helped Sell the Iraq War | Luis Rueda (throwback episode)

2026-08-13 · 116 min · 10 entities

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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. 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 Pigs 03:50 - Being Recruited by the CIA 07:07 - Training at the CIA’s Farm 13:28 - The CIA and the Invasion of Grenada 24:39 - CIA Operations in Central America 39:44 - The CIA’s War on Drug Cartels 50:17 - Cuban Intelligence Tries to Recruit Him 55:14 - Eastern European Intelligence Operations After the Cold War 1:01:23 - Running CIA Operations Against Iraq 1:09:00 - Rumsfeld, General Franks and the Iraq War Plan 1:18:09 - The Intelligence Behind Iraq’s WMD Claims 1:28:51 - Chief of Station in New Delhi 1:37:07 - India, China and the Fight for the Indian Ocean 1:52:12 - Counterintelligence and Becoming Permanently Paranoid Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support .