Former Senior CIA Officer Raymond White Returns to Discuss the Human Intelligence Fundamentals Course

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Former CIA officer Raymond White discusses his comprehensive Human Intelligence course and the fundamentals of espionage.

Welcome back to the Grey Dynamics Podcast. This week, we welcome back Raymond White, a former CIA senior case officer with over 25 years of experience in the field. Raymond spent his entire career as a case officer focusing on counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism, earning the nickname “The Snow Leopard” within the agency. He also served as head of the CIA’s enterprise training program for aspiring case officers. Raymond has now created what he describes as the most comprehensive Human Intelligence (HUMINT) course available anywhere. We spoke about the course structure, the psychology and ethics of espionage, historical case studies like Oleg Gordievsky, for whom the course is designed for, and the potential for in-person training Find Raymond White: Grey Dynamics Human Intelligence Fundamentals Course (coming soon) Related Links: Former Senior CIA Officer Raymond White on HUMINT and Training the Next Generation - Episode 56 Former CIA Collection Management Officer with Esther Atwell on Life Senior CIA Ops Officer John Atwell on Culture Change, Working with Five Eyes and Career Advice From the Defence Human Intelligence Unit to Recruitment with Mack Australian Intelligence…

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Host: Grey Dynamics

Guest: Raymond White

Topics covered

• human intelligence
• espionage
• CIA training
• counter-terrorism
• psychology of espionage

Keywords

• HUMINT
• espionage
• CIA
• training
• counter-proliferation
• psychology
• ethics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CIA

Books & works: Grey Dynamics Human Intelligence Fundamentals Course

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