Jack Devine, former CIA Acting DDO, on "The Fight against Russian Aggression."

Interview of Friday, 5 February 2021 of Jack Devine, former CIA Acting Director of Operations, Consultant, and Author. Interviewer - Host: James Hughes, AFIO President, a former CIA Operations Officer.
TOPIC: Jack Devine and Jim Hughes discuss Jack's 2021 book, "Spymaster's Prism: The Fight against Russian Aggression." Interview includes discussion of Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Ukraine, Russian election influence operation attempts, Robert Hanssen, Aldrich Ames, moles, traitors, covert operations in Afghanistan, Charlie Wilson's War - the man, the book, the script, and the truth, running operations abroad, and some thoughts on the CIA today and what is needed in the future.
The interview runs 59 minutes and includes many Q&As.
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BIOS:
JACK DEVINE formerly served as Acting Director and Associate Director of Operations at CIA. He served for thirty-two-years as the CIA's top spymaster with supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. As former Chief of CIA's Afghan Task Force, he was in charge of CIA's largest and most successful covert action operation which drove the Russians out of Afghanistan. He also served as Chief of CIA's Latin America Division as well as CIA's Counter Narcotics Center. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a founding partner and currently serves as president of the Arkin Group, an international risk consulting and intelligence firm. His book to be released in March 2021 -- the subject of today's interview -- is "Spymaster's Prism: The Fight against Russian Aggression." His prior book, co-authored with Vernon Loeb and released in 2014, was "Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story." He lives in New York City with his wife, Pat.
JAMES R. HUGHES currently serves as the 17th President of AFIO. His service began January 2015. He had a career of US Government service spanning 37 years in numerous foreign countries with a particular focus in the Middle East. He started in U.S. Military Intelligence in the late 1960s and then joined the CIA’s Clandestine Service. He served overseas as a Chief of Station several times, and at CIA Headquarters in a number of senior management positions, including as Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division, in the Directorate of Operations [today’s National Clandestine Service]. He was also named the Associate Deputy Director of Operations (ADDO) at the National Security Agency, 1998-99. Following his retirement from the government in 2005, he joined EDS in Herndon, Virginia, as the Client Industry Executive for the U.S. Intelligence Community. After the HP acquisition of EDS, he continued to serve in a similar capacity until his retirement in 2012. His parents were missionaries in Turkey in the 1950s, where Jim spent his formative years. He is fluent in Arabic.

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I loved this interview. Especially interesting to me were Mr. Divine's comments on his experience in writing his books. It makes me more appreciative of the effort that goes into the process. Very well done.

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