“My Life in American Intelligence” – with Barry Zulauf

Summary

Barry Zulauf (Twitter; LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss his extensive experience working across the American intelligence community. Barry is the President of the International Association for Intelligence Education. 

What You’ll Learn

Intelligence

• What is the “Intelligence Community?”
• The organizational structure of American intelligence
• The establishment of the ODNI
• The intelligence components of the DEA 

Reflections

• A life of service
• Passion to serve the people 

And much, much more …

Quotes of the Week

“[Fentanyl] is an enormous, enormous problem and no single organization, even as big as the Defense Intelligence enterprise, can deal with it alone. So, it's going to be a lot of diplomacy and a lot of building bridges, convincing people to do the right thing.”  – Barry Zulauf.

Resources 

SURFACE SKIM

*SpyCasts*

• First of Many…America’s First Female Intelligence Agency Chief with former NGA Director Letitia “Tish” Long (2023)
• Espionage and the Two Queens with Kent Tiernan (2023)
• Irregular Warfare & Intelligence with IWC Director Dennis Walters (2023)
• El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel & Intelligence with Trial Reporter Noah Hurowitz (2022)

*Beginner Resources*

• America's intelligence community, explained, The Washington Post, YouTube (2014) [2 min. video]
• Members of the IC, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (n.d.) [Brief summaries of the 18 agencies] 
• Who We Are, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (n.d) [Short article]

DEEPER DIVE

Primary Sources 

• The WMD Commission Report (2005)
• The 9/11 Commission Report (2004) 
• The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (2004)
• The Clark Report (1955)
• The Doolittle Report (1955)
• National Security Act (1947)
• CIA Review of the World Situation (1947) 

*Wildcard Resource*

• Barry mentioned early in the episode that he actually rowed into town the morning we recorded this episode – Barry shares this hobby with Teddy Roosevelt, an avid rower and the president that was instrumental in the creation of the FBI.
• Check out this Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to Theodore Roosevelt that catapulted the FBI into existence.