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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Importance of Private Intelligence in the United States
After 9-11, the intelligence community significantly increased its presence overseas and in terms of analytical capacity here in the United States. The decision was incongruent with the existing hiring process because CIA or NSA is a six to nine month process. From then until now, it's become a budgetary thing. It's become a continuity of operations thing. And now the reason Northern Virginia has become one of the wealthiest zip codes in America is because of the incredible concentration of private intelligence that is supporting CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, and all the slew of IC partners.
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