5:30:31
Ian Bick
I Was a CIA Operator for 25 Years — What I Saw Sent Me To Prison
Five and a half hours, one guest, almost no interruptions from the host. A man introduced as Michael Williams says he spent twenty five years with the CIA, first as a paramilitary contractor and then under non official cover running a real hedge fund, and that what he saw being stolen from American aid convoys in Ukraine is why he is now a convicted felon. He walks the whole arc in order: Annapolis, a cold call on a line that had never rung, six weeks of selection with no stated pass marks, getting shot through body armour, a reverse proffer that opened with a prosecutor saying no money was missing, and a judge who called it the strangest wire fraud case in thirty years.