The podcast will be hosted by two agency officers, exploring new topics with special guests in each episode.
“In our democracy, where trust in institutions is in such short supply,” Burns said on the podcast’s first episode, “it’s important to try to explain ourselves as best we can, and to demystify a little bit of what we do.”
Burns and the podcast’s hosts had some fun at the expense of Hollywood’s depictions of spies, noting their work “doesn’t always involve fast cars and solo heroics.” “I should start by saying that I love spy movies,” Burns said. “But one big misconception that a lot of those really entertaining movies feed is that intelligence in real life is just a glamorous world of solo operators in the world of James Bond and Jason Bourne and Jack Ryan. A world of heroic individuals who drive fast cars and defuse bombs and solve world crises all on their own every day.
But new challenges, driven by great power competition with China, are driving the agency to adapt its mission set and“We need to organize ourselves to navigate successfully what is an incredibly complicated international terrain,” Burns said. “We’re trying to put more resources, recruit more Mandarin speakers, to help address that central geopolitical challenge.”
“But it also means we have to deal with declining powers — not just rising ones — like Russia,” he added. “And Putin demonstrates every day that declining powers can be at least as disruptive as rising ones.”Michael Wilner of the McClatchy Washington Bureau wrote this story.
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