All language subtitles for Inside the CIA Secrets and Spies - S01E05 - Darrell Blocker - Tracking the Butcher

You want to know everything they're
doing inside the CIA, right?

Because a lot of people see the movies,
you want to know how it works, but

there's a reason the CIA does things
that they do.

Working in this secretive world of
terrorist groups, bad things happen.

So when you're planning an operation,
you're building off of information

been gathered over a long period of time
where you feel like you know.

the target you know what's going on in
their minds we still don't know how they

did it and they will want to keep that
quiet because you want to do it again

there was a raid against our top taliban
target he was very smart he was very

crafty but he was just as evil how they
tracked him is a very secretive

operation

To be pulled into this world, seeing the
level of hatred and killing and damage

that I was being inflicted, it was very
dangerous.

And at the end of the day, these people
will take your life.

I have only once ever celebrated the
demise of a human being.

Being a CIA case officer operating in a
foreign land always has a little bit of

loneliness to it.

Taking my family to this part of the
world in the terrorism fight that I was

fighting, it wasn't an option.

So, yeah, it was lonely.

My name is Darrell Blocker. I spent 32
years as an intelligence officer, four

the military as an analyst, and 28 at
the Central Intelligence Agency as an

operations officer.

Five years after 9 -11, I was serving as
a station chief in East

Africa when I got the notice that you're
going to the war zone in the Pakistan

-Afghanistan theater.

In the 2006 -2007 time frame, we were
losing in Iraq. We were losing

in Afghanistan, and the terrorists were
gaining ground.

After the Taliban were hosted in
December 2001, most of the Taliban

ran away into hiding.

So Pakistanis provided them safe havens.
and they kept their families and

themselves hidden from the U .S. forces.

I am Lieutenant General Sami Sadat. I
served as commander of Joint Special

Operations Forces Afghanistan, which was
the main counterpart for the U .S.

Special Forces.

By 2006, slowly the Taliban had surfaced
in small pockets, attacking U .S. and

Afghan forces and scaring the
population.

At that time, there was little al -Qaeda
left to fight, so the U .S.

immediately shifted focus on to going
after the Taliban.

The top Taliban leadership all were
based in Pakistan, and that was an area

where they could rest and refit, but
also be largely immune from attack.

My name is Mike Vickers. I'm a former
CIA operations officer and former

Undersecretary of Defense for
Intelligence.

So when they spent a lot of time in
Pakistan, they had sanctuary.

But then also when you go into
Afghanistan to fight and lead forces,

Afghanistan's a big country. It's the
size of Texas. It's mountainous.

And there weren't a lot of forces to
counter them.

So given the terrain, given some support
in the country enabled them to

operate. So the idea that you'd come in
for a wild fight and then go back to

Pakistan where it was more secure
allowed these folks to survive for a

time. The country of Pakistan became a
safe haven for the Taliban because the U

.S. military wasn't based in Pakistan.

What a lot of them did is they lived in
Pakistan under false identity, and

that's how they're able to blend in.

I'm Sarah Adams.

I was the targeter for the top three of
the Taliban, both in Afghanistan and in

Pakistan. So a targeter is really one of
those professions that came out of post

-9 -11 world.

finding new ways to track down
terrorists.

And the Taliban paid attention to where
the U .S. government was able to do

operations. And so they're very smart
and savvy to basically stay in what we

call the subtle areas of Pakistan where
it would be harder to track and locate

them.

That was like the big shift where the
CIA started targeting like the top 10 of

the Taliban.

So the mission was to stop the fighters
from coming outside of the region who

wanted to join their terrorist buddies
in the fight.

My job was to stop them at the source,
to capture them, and stop them from

crossing back and forth across the
Pakistan -Afghanistan borders.

But at the end of the day, the main guy
we wanted, our top Taliban target, was

Mueller de la Lange, also known as MDL.

Mullah Dadullah Lang was basically
operating as like the number two, number

three of the Taliban.

Mullah Dadullah Lang was one of the
Afghan Mujahideen.

He was violent.

He was heartless.

He had lost his leg in fighting against
the Soviets.

There's stories of Mullah Dadiyallah
running into the villages, killing older

men, shooting women.

In one instance, a Taliban fighter had
saw Mullah Dadiyallah entering a house

where everyone was dead and a baby was
crying and the Taliban fighters didn't

know what to do. So he grabs the baby
and, you know...

throws him into the wall where the baby
dies instantly.

And the other fighters say, why are you
doing this? And he says that this is the

son of a snake.

A son of a snake will become a snake.

He had a propensity to just be very,
very brutal. He fought against the

so he had the credentials of fighting
jihad against foreigners.

And he turned that same attention
against the Americans and the UN allies

were in there.

Daidula was responsible for all the
beheadings that have gone in

is behind all the suicide bombings in
Afghanistan. He has beheaded people

himself. Mullah Daidula is one of the
commanders who brought suicide bombers

into the South, strapping up young
teenage boys with explosives and having

detonated.

Today, a suicide bomber struck near the
Pakistani border.

Violence across the country is at its
worst since it started the war,

to the United Nations.

In 2004, I think there was like six
suicide attacks in the country. But in

it was Mullah Dadu Daleng who started
the big southern offensive, which

basically reinvigorated the Taliban.

At 8 .15 on Saturday morning, another
strike.

And in that year, there was like 140
suicide attacks.

And that's when the Taliban then started
gaining momentum and really getting

involved and like, hey, we can win this.
Like, we didn't actually lose in 2001.

MDL was known within Taliban circles as
the butcher.

You don't earn that title easily amongst
killers, so you can just imagine he was

the worst of the worst.

There was a video of him essentially
forcing a very young boy, 10 to 12 years

old, to behead a man that MDL claimed
was responsible for this kid's

father's death. And all I could think
about was, this child is never going to

the same.

My son was in his senior year of high
school during the year that I was away,

I missed my own kid.

in his final year of high school, and
all I could think about were my own two

kids. And if they had been exposed to
this level of depravity, how would they

be? So for me, after seeing this video
and after recognizing that MDL was

already on the top of my list, he was a
person that I wanted to come into my

area so that I could be responsible for
taking him down.

Operationally, end of 2006, beginning of
2007, MDL was probably the number one

target in Afghanistan due to how many
deaths were being caused.

He was the top of the food chain
planning those operations.

And so he knew he was at the top of the
hit list for the CIA, for our partners

in the region.

But the operation targeting MDL became
really complex because he moved around.

A lot. He got to the point where he
would only start giving commands or

to his commanders face to face.

It was rare to hear his voice on
internal Taliban comms or

on an open line because he knew he was
being tracked.

So there's a lot of different places you
can get information to track and locate

them.

You rely very heavily on human
intelligence.

But then also this newer generation,
they actually post to social media, as

can imagine, and that's very helpful
when you're trying to locate someone.

They also use a lot of signals
intelligence, like just tracking phones,

example. In the old days, signals
intelligence was largely about airwaves

people talking to each other over the
radio.

It now expands, obviously, to the
Internet and to getting into the

the bad guys, as well as still
intercepting communications.

over mobile telephones.

My name is Michael Smith.

I spent a decade in British military
intelligence before becoming a

Even when you're not talking on it, your
cell phone will stay in contact with

the antennae as you travel around.

Frequency can be accessed to actually
not just listen to your telephone

conversations, they can listen into you.

So that's the capabilities of signals
intelligence.

So we found out that MDL is in country
and he is in this specific location, in

my area of operations, and we came up
with a plan.

which was this raid directed at MDL.

And what you're planning is not just the
capture of this guy, but getting out

safely.

And that could be the difference between
success or someone

losing life.

Unfortunately, turns out that the actual
location MDL might be in was a mosque.

So I had to make a decision whether to
hit a mosque or not.

When it comes to like a mosque or
madrasa, terrorists use these as covers.

Some really aren't even used as a mosque
at all.

They put the sign on the building and
then obviously if anything is done

it, you know, it can become a human
rights violation.

And so it's almost impossible to do a
CIA operation against them.

And remember, in these villages, there's
people who are armed. Just like in

America, everyone has a gun, and there
is some, you know, sympathizers to the

mullah, some sympathizers to the mosque.

There's a lot of risk that you need to
consider.

Out of respect for the religion, out of
respect for the actual physical location

of this place of worship, we were ready
to walk away.

Our foreign partners, however, said we
don't have the same concerns.

We're also Muslim.

He is making our religion look bad.

We're going to do this on our own if you
guys don't join us.

Well, we know how it was going to end if
they let it.

They were going to kill him, but we
needed to capture him to gather more

intelligence.

In counterterrorism capture operations,
the goal is to isolate this person.

stop them from doing more harm, and then
pick their brain and gather as much

information as you possibly can.

So we needed to capture MDL and talk
about things.

These raids, they're always different
every day. You can plan them for as long

as you want, but things almost never go
as they're planned, which is why you

plan for contingencies.

All day, every day.

As the senior CIA guy on the particular
raid, I would be in the command vehicle

in touch with all the parties that were
actually moving.

Our officers were armed.

Our foreign intelligence service
partners were armed.

We were flanking from two different
sides.

We put somebody on a rooftop, so we were
ready for all possibilities.

It was time to execute.

We launched the raiding party into the
objective.

These are very fast.

From the time they launch to when
they're coming out with whoever they

could be as short as two or three
minutes.

So you're not waiting a long time, but
you're amped up as high as you can get.

The fact that a mosque was involved, to
know that there are armed people moving

around inside who might meet resistance
and might have to pull a trigger that

I'm responsible for, even though this
operation is being completely led by our

local partners.

I've compared it to like waiting for
your kid to come home from a date and

you're the parent at home late at night
and you don't know what's going to

happen.

It's kind of like that. It's a little
unnerving to not know what's going

on or what's happening.

Eventually, the team members, they came
back, and I was disappointed when I

recognized that the three people that
they were walking out, none of them had

prosthetic leg or was limping in a way
that might suggest that they had a

prosthetic leg.

MDL didn't look anything like the people
that were captured.

And then the third person, I thought it
was a girl at first, but it was a very

effeminate young kid.

15, 16 years old, somewhere in that
range, who I thought was odd

that they would capture a child because
to that date we never had.

And after three people were taken into
custody, the team that did the assault

came running back to the vehicle like
someone was chasing them.

And it was weird because they typically
didn't run.

I could tell something was different.
And I said, well, what's wrong? And I

said, well, do you hear the voices
coming from the loudspeakers?

I said, yeah, it's time for, you know,
midday prayers.

No, sir, that's them saying the service
is here. They've taken someone from a

mosque and get out in the street and
stop any vehicle that they're traveling

right this second.

And this kind of tactic was used time
and time again when we went into the

into these villages.

The way to get their attention is to use
the mosque's loudspeaker and call the

men. It's like, hey, foreign forces are
here. If anyone wants to, you know, kill

them, this is your moment. Come out and
fight.

I know what they do to people that they
capture. So I went from being completely

relaxed to chaos is about to happen.

They're describing us.

They're describing our vehicle.

If those guys stop us from leaving,
we're going to be captured or killed.

But pre -planning and knowing the roads
in and out was our job.

So we were able to get everybody out
safely with zero shots fired.

Unfortunately, the main guy we wanted,
MDL, was not there.

I think for a person like Muladadela to
race through the ranks and survive so

many wars, he must have been very smart.

He was someone who knew how to hide than
how to survive for so long.

He could be anywhere.

So we were crestfallen.

We were like... We can't catch this guy.
The U .S. has been chasing him for four

or five years. We're never going to
catch this guy.

But as it turns out, we captured three
people who were significant to him.

So once someone is taken into custody,
they're in the care of our foreign

partners.

Fed, house.

and then brought to debriefing sessions.

I've seen debriefings probably be the
best type of intelligence, right?

at the end of the day, we're still just
humans talking to humans. And you have

to have that level of humanity because
the debriefing isn't to sit there and

say, I know everything about you and
you're a bad guy. It is a fact -finding

mission.

So I started a series of debriefings to
get information.

People call it interrogation.
Interrogation just has a negative

with each debriefing, my approach was to
make sure I was kind to everyone, even

people that I knew were mass murderers.

And there were some that were mass
murderers, but I knew they were better

the worst thing they ever did. So that
was typically my mindset when I was

to sit across from someone that...

would look at me and say, I want to kill
you and everything that you stand for.

And it's really difficult to not allow
those people to impact you in a way

that's going to make you come down to
their level. But they're not really

directing that at me.

I'm not really the focus of their animus
or their hatred. My system, my

government, my country might be, but if
I can get them on a one -to -one.

then you can start to break down those
barriers.

I always felt it was important to treat
people with respect, no matter what

they've done.

Growing up, that was always my thinking.

I grew up in the hill of the boot,
Italy, Okinawa, Japan, and Texas, before

moved to Georgia when I was 11.

My father was an intelligence NCO in the
Air Force.

My interest in foreign relations really
is born out of the fact that I grew up

in other cultures.

And then I was this black kid moving to
Georgia a couple years after

desegregation. And it was weird because
growing up on military bases,

everybody's together.

I get to Augusta, Georgia, and big
groups of black kids here, big groups of

white kids here, but only a little bit
of groups in the middle. And I always

felt like I was in the middle, not
trapped, just a bridge.

So I studied things at...

Most people didn't want to talk about
it. I studied the Klan. I wanted to know

about the KKK. I'd heard about it. I
knew that people were afraid of it. I

studied the mafia, and I studied Hitler.

I think it's important to study people
because you need to understand what

positions are.

Why did they come to this?

What is ultimately their goal?

And once you have an understanding of
not just what their position is, but

it's so much more powerful in terms of
actually reaching out and understanding

situation.

So with each debriefing, with each
session where you're talking to them,

a little bit more granularity. And turns
out we had captured two of MDL's

lieutenants.

and what is known as a bacha bazi, which
is,

let's just say he was a sex toy, and he
was MDL sex toy.

Bacha is a boy, and bazi means play.

Bacha bazi is playboy.

It actually surprised me that he had a
bacha.

It's not allowed in the religion of
Islam to keep young boys as your sex

partner. It's very important to
understand the culture.

Older men take young boys for
entertainment. They have them

dance. But there's also a sexual
dimension to it as well. They're sort of

slaves. The Taliban officially banned
it, and so...

Their practice is frowned upon, but it's
also widely practiced by Taliban

leaders. You know, so there's an element
of hypocrisy there as well.

It's a part of the world where you don't
acknowledge their wives, their sisters,

their mothers, or their daughters.

And so they are more comfortable being
physical, intimate, and sexual with a

young boy than they would with a young
girl because that would get them killed.

The homosexual aspect has somehow been
separated from their Islamic thought and

preaching because this is cultural, not
religious.

That's probably the dichotomy that
they're dealing with, and it's the

two evils.

So for me, I wanted to talk with this
young man and understand.

everything that's going on, but also
maybe he would be able to find some

in me.

So it's super valuable to get someone
that close to your target. Even when you

collect intelligence from assets, they
might be one step, two steps away from

the individual, right?

When you have someone captured who is
close to the person you're looking for

travels with them all the time or lives
with them all the time, they're going to

have insights that you were never even
aware of.

They're going to know things that help
you target that you just weren't going

be able to collect.

So my approach was always, please take
the chains off. I can't talk to somebody

chained up like an animal. I'm just not
going to do it out of principle.

And I knew if I was able to connect with
them as a human being.

then you could find something that you
could talk about.

MDL did become to me a very personal
thing. My kid, who I was away from,

this kid who he had co -opted and
abused, the other child in the video.

I hated the fact that I was away from my
son for a senior year of high school.

I hated the fact that my family was
still in East Africa and I was, you

another part of the world without them.

So MDL did become personal.

When I first sat across from this young
man, my heart was broken because he was

just a scared, frightened child.

Maybe I saw a little bit of my son.

in him. And maybe I even saw a little
bit of my daughter in him. And well,

because he, he wore makeup.

He more presented as a female than a
male, but he was putting on the

facade of I'm tough.

I've chosen this life. You're the person
who's wrong in this. So I knew that

this kid was scared because he was
absolutely under the 100 % control of

mdl so being kind is a kind of a
mechanism that you use but it was

also authentic to me because that's who
i am and that's who i was and so i

believe we were able to disarm this
young man by treating him with respect

eventually he shifted and changed a
little bit we started talking to one

about history and poems and music and
all this other stuff

Music was my first love. I would ask
them about their favorite singer.

I always made sure that the music of
that particular artist that he liked was

playing in the background. We started
talking about art and turned out that

kid was a gifted artist.

I don't know what it's like for your
child to be a bachabazi. I don't know if

that's a good thing or a shameful thing
or what it is. So I don't know how long

he had been living in that life, but I
knew that at the end of the day, he

didn't know anything different.

He knew he was in custody. He knew he
was probably in trouble.

But for us, he wasn't in trouble.

We hopefully removed him from the
trouble.

When the young boy was arrested and kind
of irritated MDL into using more

technology to finding out what's
happening.

Not having access to his bachibazi made
him lose his mind.

He got sloppy and he became a little
more active on the radio.

Once it became apparent that we had
someone that mattered very much to

Dadela Lange, we knew that we had maybe
that next piece of the puzzle to track

his movement.

He started making phone calls. He
started making demands.

He wanted to know who was responsible
for the raid.

And then radio communication was used to
find his footprint.

And having that was significant because
ultimately as an intelligence service,

what you're trying to project is what
that person is going to do next.

It's quite ironic to think that a person
so sophisticated like Mullah Dadiyala

will fall into the trap.

But that's the miscalculation on Mullah
Dadiyala's part.

While this was happening,

There were a number of very significant
operations that were going on.

Some of them included and involved
Mullah Daddala Lange.

An Italian journalist with an Afghan
journalist and their interpreter came to

conduct an interview with him, and he
had given them permission to come and

conduct an interview with Mullah
Daddala.

When they arrived, they were arrested.

Daddala released a video of them
blindfolded.

on their knees with Taliban pointing
guns at them.

The Taliban frequently kidnapped people
and they did it to get

ransoms or to get prisoners out.

Mullah Sharma's Mansur, who was the
Dulla's brother,

had been captured by the Afghan forces.

So Abdullah saw this kidnapping as a way
of a getting money from the Italians

and b getting his brother out of jail.

The local Helmandi facilitator was
beheaded in front of the Italian

The Italian journalist was kept as a
prisoner.

The Italian government paid a large sum
of money to Mulla Daddiela, asking him

not to kill the journalist.

And later, Mulla Daddiela exchanged the
Italian journalist with five prisoners.

And one of them included his brother,
Mansour Daddiela, who was then released.

So those five Taliban were handed over,
and now he had money.

And now he had the resolve, and his
resolve was focusing on how to get this

young kid sprung from the local
authorities.

It was certainly seen by Abdullah as a
great victory.

But at some point during the
negotiations, there was a realization

was a way to turn this on its head.

When Abdullah's brother is released,
someone decided...

We put a tracking device on him.

And so the minute he's back with Dadula,
they know where Dadula is.

That was the clever bit, really.

We literally followed him from city to
city, village to village,

until he made the mistake of moving in a
part of Afghanistan where he

felt comfortable.

He is from Helmand province, where he
was hiding, and Helmandis are very loyal

to each other.

So he used his local network, his
brothers, his family, and his former

friends to go into Helmand and found a
refuge for himself.

So it's not easy to catch someone who is
moving around in their own backyard,

but also once he was...

ensconced within the southern provinces
in Afghanistan. That operational control

is no longer mine. It shifted to the
international security forces that were

there.

In terms of the alliance in Afghanistan,
Helmand was controlled by the British.

The special operations force there is
the SBS, the Special Boat Service.

It's the UK equivalent of Steel Team 6.

They were tasked to go to Brahmacharya
and take out Dadula and get what

intelligence they could.

But a lot of the planning, of course,
was based on CIA intelligence and

of that intelligence with those
partners.

The level of planning and the rehearsal
that goes into this is crazy.

Especially the tactical troops that are
going to be deployed and conducting this

raid, they need to simulate a similar
situation or an area.

They plan how many people should go, how
should they attack it, how many enemies

there, what kind of weaponry they need.

It's very intense.

There's a lot of pressure on your mind.
There's a lot of rest involved.

Landmines, booby traps, and there will
be the enemy using women and children.

And they're using shelters that are full
of civilians.

This is where leadership is tested to
their bones.

SBS.

We sent in a supercat 6x6.

One went in to do reconnaissance. Saw
where it was, got a picture of what it

was, so they could plan the raid.

Finally, we were ready.

We knew where he was.

We knew the defenses of the area in
which he was.

He felt like, this is my ancestral home.
I'm probably safer here than anywhere

that I've ever been.

May 2007, the British SBS went in three
dozen guys in

Chinook helicopters.

The problem was that Chinook helicopters
are a very noisy beast.

So Dadula and his men worked out what
was going on, so they were prepared.

And so you had what was essentially an
old -fashioned infantry battle with the

SPS and their Afghan colleagues
attacking a building.

It took time, but they got there.

The special forces shot a bunch of
Taliban running away, and one of the

was Malad Adela.

He was shot beside a canal.

He didn't die instantly. He was injured.

He threw himself into the canal, only to
be drowned by water.

And later he was identified that this is
MBL.

The hunt for Malad Adela Lange was...

Over eight to ten months for me
personally.

For me, watching him in a video forcing
a child to behead a grown man

was something that I still can't get out
of my mind's eye.

And so I celebrated that evening with a
cigar on the balcony, but I

didn't let it linger.

A man who died, and I always would
remind my officers that even the people

killing have mothers and fathers and
family and friends that love them. So I

don't think we should be cheering, you
know, someone's death, but cheering the

fact that this guy can no longer cause
additional death.

I don't know if I'm proud of that, but I
did celebrate, and I never celebrated

another death.

Not since and not before.

The thing is, a lot of these terrorists
get reported as killed numerous times

and they don't actually die, right? Or
people don't believe they die.

If you're the public and you're not
really believing that they killed MDL,

only way to prove it, as you can
imagine, is through the media of it.

His body was brought back into Kandahar.
The governor of Kandahar at the time

decided to display his body for public
and for the media and to take pictures

and see it. This is not a typical
situation in Afghanistan.

Usually it's not good to display bodies.

according to our traditions. But because
of the significance of who he was and

how brutal of a man he was, it was
important for people to know and also to

learn that bad people die in a terrible
way. And Mullah al -Dawla is really

dead.

We needed the Taliban to know
definitively that one of their top

now been eliminated.

Of course, the Taliban is used to losing
its leaders, but Dodolo was,

he was a legend and a very successful
leader of the Taliban.

It was a huge, huge impact on the
Taliban at the time, on the morale, on

other top leaders starting to turn
against each other.

That's how important he was.

All he wanted was his prized boy back.

And ultimately his ego, his desire to
get this child back in his custody, I

believe led to his demise.

Our foreign intelligence partners, at
this point, they thought that this kid

15, 16 years old. Let's return him to
his family.

My argument was, you realize this is the
same family that sold him into this

life, so how about we not?

returned him to his family.

As a father of a kid along the same age
of this young man, there was no way that

I was going to hand over this child back
to his abusers.

I took every measure that I could within
the CIA to make sure that this kid

didn't have to return to this life. I
knew that this kid was a gifted artist.

If you've seen the trucks in the
Pakistan -Afghanistan area, they're all

brightly colored with words and symbols.

We were able to find someone within that
community where you can teach this kid

a trade so he wouldn't have to go back
to selling his body for, you know,

feeding his family.

And again, this was me as a dad, as a
humanitarian, as someone who cared about

this particular child.

Saving that boy from MDL, I wouldn't put
that on my list of achievements of

success, but as a human being, as a
father, that was probably the one

that I felt was the most significant.

I knew at the end of the day MDL was
either going to be captured or killed.

That's the goal. That's the intent.

But being faced with it and being a part
of it.

On the day -to -day, on the ground, I
know that I was getting to the point

I needed to not see the hatred and
killing and damage that was being

And so I went back to my family, went
back and, you know, reengaged and just

kind of decompressed as a family.

There's nothing that I did at CIA that I
would do differently.

I loved everything about it.

The ride in between the 1990 and 2018
took me to West Africa and North Africa

and Europe, the Pakistan -Afghanistan
Theater.

It was a joy for me to allow my children
to kind of grow up in different

cultures and learn different languages.
My son graduated high school in Uganda.

My daughter graduated high school in
Switzerland.

They're children of the world, and if I
did anything right on this planet, I

think. Having my kids grow up
recognizing that as great as the United

there are a lot of great countries in
the world, and I needed them to be

to those.

I'm proud of my record. I'm proud of the
institution.

I fought a lot of fights, but I fought
them because...

it was the right thing to do.

I would always make sure that people
understood that there was life at the

end of every decision and every
discussion that we had.

The CIA has some really dedicated
officers who care about human life, who

lot of integrity, who actually does a
lot of good things around the world.

The really funny thing is, is when
someone finds out you're CIA, they're

surprised, right? Really, a CIA is just
like normal people who can kind of go to

any country and talk to any person and
like form a relationship. Like that's

key, right? We're like the best in the
world at getting to know you.

CIA makes sure that our world is safer
because we have people who are out in

field. speaking the languages, talking
to the people at the ground roots level,

if we can fight these battles abroad,
then they're not brought to our

At the end of the day, that is why we do
what we do. There's a large part that

you're never going to know or see
because we're protecting something.

We're protecting our advanced
technology.

We're protecting this well -placed
source. We're protecting you.