Coast to Coast - October 03 2017 - Protecting the Grid - CIA Spy.nfo
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Coast to Coast - October 03 2017 - Protecting the Grid - CIA Spy
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More Info............: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2017/10/03
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DATE: Tuesday - October 3, 2017
HOST: George Noory
GUESTS: Glenn Rhoades, Eric Burkhart
The National Operations Director for the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland
Security, Glenn Rhoades is an expert in social activism and is currently
advocating for grid resiliency with Peter Pry. In the first half, he discussed
the importance of protecting the electrical grid from EMP attack and coronal
mass ejection. Several years ago, he noted, we just missed a major solar flare
by a few days that would have had a similar impact to the Carrington Event of
1859, in which telegraph systems around the world were damaged or fried. While
this is an urgent matter, the Congressional EMP Commission, which was started
more than 16 years ago, has yet to do anything, he lamented.
For those looking to get more involved, Rhoades cited The Secure the Grid
Coalition, co-chaired by Newt Gingrich and James Woolsey. The Coalition serves
as an umbrella group to four smaller organizations each with different focuses:
the EIS Council-- pursuing a worldwide approach, and sharing technologies,
InfraGard-- working with first responders and law enforcement, the Foundation
for Resilient Societies-- dealing with governmental policy issues, as well as
Rhoades and Peter Pry's group, the EMP Task Force-- working with grassroots
organization and leadership.
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In the latter half, Eric Burkhart, who was a wartime spy in Iraq, Kosovo, and
Africa, provided an insider's look into what the life of a CIA case officer is
really like. In contrast to what people hear about CIA "recruitment," he said he
applied to the agency, just as one would do with a regular employer. That is how
most people get their jobs there, he explained, though there are extensive
background checks, and interviews in the hiring process. Since 9-11, espionage
and intelligence gathering has changed a great deal, he observed, with a
reduction of targeting of diplomats and military and nuclear/defense industry
researchers, and an increased focus on terrorist cells.
Tracing the evolution of ISIS, he suggested they began as al Qaeda in Iraq, and
after the war there, they resurged in Syria with a new name, Islamic State. The
terrorist organization, he added, has shown an ability to regenerate itself,
with aggressive efforts to expand and recruit in Africa. He also detailed how he
was poisoned by a Russian man, whom he was trying to get intelligence from, when
he was stationed in the Balkans back in the 1990s. Now retired from the CIA,
Burkhart is currently running for Congress in his home state of Texas.
News segment guests: Catherine Austin Fitts, Robert Zimmerman
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BOOK(S):
Blackout Wars
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Mukhabarat, Baby! My Life as a Wartime Spy for the CIA
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