James Olson CIA Spy Chief of Counterintelligence -Intelligence, Espionage and International Affairs 

Our country needs more patriots like you. Thank you for all you have done for our country! May GOD bless you and your family the very best!

Thank you Mr. Olson for your service. We need more people like this on youtube, people that are smart and know what they are talking about.

THANK-YOU for your service, Mr. Olson!!!

This generation should learn serious optimism and pragmatism from this Patriot. Thank you sir for your words (From an immigrant turned Citizen), America needs to know we have more friends than what most think!

Great podcast. James is extremely informative. He has me getting ready to apply to the bush school

Professor Olson confirmed some theories I have held for some time, especially regarding the overall strategic objective of Chinese espionage, and how they go about it. This is something more people should be exposed to.

LOVED THIS.

I don't understand how this only got a few hundred views.

Subscribed !

James is absolutely right when he says that we need more cointerint - we should make every Senator and Representative read Alex Joske during the Summer Session on the beach. James is the toughest SOB I have ever seen on camera (with the exception of some of Oliver North's former associates). That said, times have changed - humint has it's place, but our tech and cyber must be unfathomable. We are up against the wall. We face the closest thing to a hive mind in history - we are already losing every single time FI manages to divide us and run down the clock. We are going to lose catastrophically if we don't unite the country - the only way that I can farhom that happening is if we present a realist perspective to the civilians who have been road apples against the most divisive information weapon systems humanity has ever seen. This realist methodology (as a counter to divisive agit-prop both on the battlefield and in the city) has worked in Ukraine (under the most desperate circumstances) but it remains to be seen what the threshold for such unifying real-politik is in America. When every other academic in the country is debating psyop trash to pay their bills ("the woke mind virus" theory for example, which in addition to encouraging citizens to ignore each others humanity has spread throughout virtually every one of our allies like a subterfuge-through the mouths of academics and military professionals who should know better no less), perhaps we might announce that we are in point of fact at war? It seems to me we have been for quite some time - I see no benefit in attempting to obfuscate this moment when that only widens the opportunity for our enemies even further than we have already enabled with our own inaction and susceptibility to nationwide polarization.

Fascinating. I love learning about this stuff. It is important to bring this kind of info into general public for us to really think about and not be complacent in our daily lives. Olson is awesome!

Outstanding insight! Appreciate the informed, measured, and non-sensational analysis. Keep it up!

A fascinating interview! New subscriber here! 🎉 Side note : I’m sure you guys are aware of the audio issues, so there is no need to add more complaint about that.

Comrade J and KGB Connections should be required reading and viewing.

There also must be some Americans that value human life around the world and have been disillusioned by their government that undoubtedly turncoat aswell…right mr olson?

Algorithm.

He has the raspy voice that I’d imagine a seasoned spook would have…

Ames and Hansen destroyed so much. Who can trust Intel after them?

His explanation for the balloon didn't satisfy me. If the effort was truly duplicative, then why make it in the first place? If it wasn't collecting unique intelligence, and there was no clear disinformation motive, then there would have been no reason for them to have flown it over the US. The fact that the Pentagon detected another balloon over Latin America (per one of their press conferences) is proof to me that the one that flew over Montana wasn't merely "a provocation". Moreover, information had come out prior to this interview that confirmed the balloon spied on military bases, so it's a pretty clear they were gaining some sort of intelligence from it. My best guess is that they were testing our defense systems' abilities to detect balloons at varying altitudes and seeing what intelligence they could gather beyond what satellites are capable of. If nothing else, they exposed our blind spots and showed that we are totally indecisive. We sadly lack the spine to address Chinese espionage in this country. We released the Harvard professor who was convicted of giving his research to China because of public pressure. We have hundreds of thousands of Chinese foreign exchange students in the US, whereas, we have a few thousand there. I studied accounting and went to grad school for taxation, and a large number of my classmates were Chinese exchange students who learned about the US tax code and returned to China right after graduation, which made no sense to me at all. We know that the CCP specifically targets ethnic Chinese individuals for recruitment in the US, especially ones placed in positions with privileged knowledge, but we are too afraid as a country to defend against this threat in any meaningful way. Their strategy is to deliver death to us by a thousand cuts, flooding our country with spies who each provide a small amount of intelligence to China when it's safe for them to do so. In taking this approach, it's nearly impossible to detect them. We don't have the political appetite to take the China threat seriously, unfortunately. Nothing will work unless the faculty members providing China research are imprisoned, the foreign exchange student program is slashed so that their students studying here equals ours studying there, and we start identifying and monitoring ethnic Chinese professionals working for our defense contractors, universities, and f500 companies, who fit an established profile of past Chinese spies. There is no other way; they don't spy for large sums of money, so we can't catch them red handed like we could in the Cold War. They spy either because of coercion, when China threatens their family living in mainland China, or their desire to help their homeland. They have so many current and potential spies embedded in our country that the only viable solution is to attack the issue from a macro level, which will be seen by many as racist -- therein lies the conundrum, which China knows and exploits. All the funding in the world will mean nothing to our CI effort if our government is going to be afraid of being called racist, which WILL happen in any program that is effective.

Dear Sir, please suggest any Degree or Education wrt International Affairs Counter and Intelligence Analyst or any self study

Your co-host looks awkward and tense. He is not blinking naturally and opens his eyes so wide. Why is that?

Bad interviewing..skip it guys lol