Producers' Pick | Ric Prado: Career CIA Agent on Putin's "Amateur" Invasion

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I cut them my role in the cost-benefit analysis and even if you put aside to allow the considerations. I thought that Tom to go into Ukraine night is not precious interests but apparently you know my cost-benefit analysis did not coincide with that the government had Dr. Andre Korten of is a Russian foreign policy advisor speaking to sky news talk about the operation where Russia goes into Ukraine right day eight and other beauty to encircle two major cities. He took the first one yesterday and people wonder where this is going on. Not many people in this world are for this hundred and 141 countries of the United Nations. Jesse voted against this, but still Vladimir Putin continues to a pound civilian targets and civilians and just try to reckon raise a city is does not surprise my next guest, Rick Prado.

He spent 24 years in the CIA is another brand-new book is featured on 60 minutes, our schismatic CBS this morning. Call black ops the life of a CIA shadow warrior Rick welcome great to be like his pleasure makes everything he did to discard for this country. Thank you, Brian. There's a lot of Rick Prado's and the agency. Trust me right now with your unique background to diffuse when illegal because of the microphone you come I would just have a comment on this first wearing a very unique situation in 2022. It's not 1935.

This current 1938. We can't believe that a country would invade another country for no reason. They actually said I was watching (when the Foreign Secretary Foreign Minister. He said it's because the Nazi the Nazi-ism in the Ukraine. That has to be stopped by a Jewish writer's present is anyone believe that in Russia I'm from what you know I mean anyone we know it's not true. Are we doing this are true and that the world roses are true Bible to prod the problem is you know the that is the Russian ethos that is their philosopher communism is a monster that only understands one thing if there's weakness I'm when exploited and I am actually surprised that we were surprised at times that they he did this when he took over when Putin took over the one of the first things he said was, I will.

I want to resuscitate the greatness of the Fatherland of the Soviet Union.

That's a clue.

He said that from the very beginning, a city Munich in 2008 survey data security conference with Trent so he cc mentioned this several times and is in his life that it of this is his intent. I think because they are a predator, culture, and the skin. This case will easily. The communist is our way. They see an opportunity they honestly believe that they thought that they could get away with it and I'm very glad to see that it's not just the United States trying take a stance, but at the I see a little bit more global responsibility backing backing lately, the Ukraine and so it was something about Zielinski's remarks that mobilize Europe as he said I might not.

This might be the last time you see me and is not kidding.

They put at least two kill squads into into the Nate dig to into Keith to go get them and they got annihilated to write and they did because we were reported as we gave the intelligence over think that's because I that's well that is gonna be one of our biggest roles Aramaean from past incarnations. I know that in cases like this. If we see it coming. Even a year before we spent a lot of time blustering up their military capabilities and training and same thing with Intel collections training and and will and getting to work with our intelligence mechanism so we can pass him things that we get through sensitive sources. So I am definitely sure that we are helping them with exactly that kind of operations. So yeah, I play Secretary of Defense Austin say when I can ever lag me on the ground there you are Joe Lieberman at the top of the hour you. Is there a former senator from Connecticut who did a lot of work with John McCain and Lindsey Graham traveled the country to the worst possible war zones.

You can imagine, not as bad as you probably did as a Dell as a as a center and he said I would put somebody in on the ground that week with special forces in the ground. The starting aid, even if it's using some type of some type of some type of weaponry. They could take out our airplane soon stop here attack and I said that is a political decision above my pay grade kind of thing. Obviously there's always the risk of having an American capture out there or whatever, which happened to you when you are in the mission with the Contras in Nicaragua very close to it.

I almost got up and picked up someone did and blew the whole mission absolutely and also a it's it is it is incumbent of us to provide the Ukrainians with every single thing that we can and that means putting some of our special operations forces, and in a knot in the pointy end of the combat earlier doing house to house, but helping them with some of the more sophisticated like blazing targets so jets could actually be able to hit something here that comes my hope was rated someone inside Russia take about. Are they going to say that the oligarchs went to the money and the power they are getting their yachts, their planes, their monies being frozen.

They state their toys are being taken away existed this guys morbid is doing more harm than good in this foreign policy advisor I thought would may be reflecting what other people feel Dr. Andre Korten Korten of and here's what else he told sky news content. I drive to keep going. I'm trying to continue doing what I'm doing but of course are depressed all of us depressed and I think that to its it's very embarrassing for all of us, not only because we turned out to be wrong, but also because diversity of nausea or options will be in a difficult position. So it's what he said in the fact he saying it would does it say to you, there's some cracks in the Putin foundation. You know, I think that that is the biggest surprise here you would like we we had styling and crew chef and in all these animals before, but this is the first time that the rush also has this powerful underworld of these oligarchs were people that are multimillionaires and they a lot of them come from the former regime so they know the game so he's Kelly's and Gail suggested that we think they have to be careful, be peaceably Putin's gotta be careful because these people will have the clout in the financial support up to. Do you think about little bit about your background newness explain communism to you, your family was in Cuba during the transformation. When Fidel Castro came in and forced all those I guess Somoza was there Castro comes in what it had affect your family when you know I lived in a small town in the bottom of this combined mountains where Che Guevara was was at.

So my tongue get hit two or three times when I was first firefighter resolve seven years old) my window, people didn't get shot so but in that wasn't traumatic. That was just curious. But when you see a a a country within six months make a complete U-turn company and all the businesses being confiscated kids having to wear military uniforms to go to school and the abuses that he merely started the persecution. You forget that as a kid and met my father, who had 1/7 grade education and never read Marx or Lenin, but he had a heart of a lion. He said I'm an only child away as I am not going to have my son grow up in a communist country choices were leaving.

Well they would let him go. We had the ability to come to the United States, but they were not getting the exit permit so my dad somehow manage that there's a pop program called the Peter Pan program. Those bringing out kids and that's what I was it so it attorney limited the orphanage and in going from seeing that disaster to come into this country where everything is proper and people took us in with with open arms.

You know that that was the seed that was planted that not only to magnify communism and all the isms, but I'll this country a debt of honor and the viewing fellow you're the country sitting in orphanage, not the best situation. This in clashes. They are there some challenges right eating of you're going to see her family again number two, number three, you would you attack to maybe go to the Soviet Union right yeah I my uncle was by them. My by my uncle or my mom's side was a schoolteacher of a professor at the school that I was at and he was a socialist he was actually a bit of a left-leaning kind of individual and he but no blood is thicker than water. And he call my dad and since your son's name is on the list to be proposed to be sent to the Russian insurance market. I guess I'm hero and they say let's go trainman Soviet instrument and that's when he dad said that's it. I was it while you think about how different your life is going to get here was an easy right you know it was. I never took one dollar from welfare.

My dad were at work two jobs for as long as I as I can remember my mom worked in a sweatshop for well over a decade. We were way below the poverty line. When we moved to this country but we had hope. We had security and we knew that if my dad make $0.15.

Nobody was going to take it away from him and you were delivering papers I was delivering papers right so easy. Whatever you can when you had when you came from where you came and you come here you appreciated newness to tell you to appreciate it.

Are you amazed that people don't seem to appreciate this country right now. I am not only amazed but is hurtful for me because an event in the brain. I think the problem is that we don't know how good we have, of course you know about even Americans would have traveled overseas. I had a conversation with some races you are lobbing to Mexico is a know you been to come. Cool on a cruise that set the same.

If you live it away in 1/3 world country or even some of the other first world countries and you come to this country. You see the difference in the efficiencies and everything else but primarily is the freedom merely the the antagonist to communism is freedom and that's with the people of Ukraine want they know they're not the perfect system, but they want the freedom to screw it up or make it better make there's and I think that in some small way. It's making us evaluate this selfless self-flagellation that we been going through the way second there fighting for what we have and are taking for granted exactly in line.

Yielding the other thing is the Soviets say well you know the Ukrainians are a threat because of the getting closer to the West. Ukraine is to say the same thing. The Russians are on our own are you on our east side and they wanted territory is no question about that were said that they fear the democracy they not fear the country exactly that. I want that that that creeping into their culture and some people go like when a man is working over there. Why am I in a poverty line over here and then you fly one spent the next 22 decades of your professional life fighting for the country in ways that you first time you're saying and talk about in your book. First off before we go to break and get some details why did you will. How did the CIA find you as you find the CIA IA when when I was in first and first year of college I had an event the kind of woke me up and understanding that I had to have a purpose to buy energy into my aggressiveness and into my intellectual per like a better word, so I joined the Air Force para-rescue which is one of our elite special operations forces, and in the United States because I wanted to go to Vietnam. I that's when I really started feeling that urge of of ID to pay back to this country what it did for my mom and my dad because as hard as it was on me.

It was nothing compared to what you guys would you go to Cuba right you are, you know, went when Castro took over in 59, my dad had a 57 Pontiac and we had a TV at a telephone in our house as middle-class America And then he took it all away everything away from everybody and English escape the life we come back. What Rick did what he served in my left on its own is brand-new book black ops the lights for CIA shot a worrier. He has everything in perspective.

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The more you listen more, you'll know it's Brian kill made over the last couple years has been more and more isolated is not been the problem for most part I don't think is good is a rational actor because he's fearful. It doesn't look very powerful and this is could jeopardize his ability to stay in power that weren't rational actors. A very elastic rank. He's out at his compound doesn't come into town very much and under covert he's been more isolated. He's increasingly unhinged in the way that he talks about the regime I met with him many times sat and add this is a different piece seems erratic. There is an aberrant, deepening and delusional rendering of history.

He's descending into something that I personally haven't seen before. She heard former ambassador. Russia speaks Russian McFall. You heard Condoleezza Rice last and Joe McMaster between guest is Rick Prado 24 year veteran, the CIA, whose new book is doing great is called black ops are the life, the CIA shot a worrier are Rick, I just wanted there's a lot of people feel is not the same guy I wonder what Rick Prado feels will you know I think that he is the same guy from day one, since he called her that he was going to rebuild the Soviet Union, but I think that what he is giving extra pressures.

Now is the fact that he's failing in what he was trying to do know he thought that this was going to be a cakewalk. He figured in three in three days he would've taken over the Ukraine and now he's under pressure to deliver something that he may not be able to deliver a unique she is too loud as it was breaking in and out okay is clear now. Gotcha.

So looking now at the Vladimir Putin you have.

I think he's funny at his military is much as they are ruthless. These finance militaries are nearly as good as he thought no there there there. First of all, and they're not.

Second, the Ukrainian resistance is been something for the textbooks which you know, at the same time.

This is saying that amateurs practice tactics and experts practice logistics when I saw that convoy stranded out there covalently and is there.

Those guys are out of fuel.

They're out of food.

Supposedly they came in with like three or four days with the food and he's gotten away resupplying them yet deceased is losing his resources. Let's look at the CIA will and will cut shapes the agency and when you left.

Well, you know, like everything else EDD agency unfortunately has slightly FBI has become a little too politicized. Even though this against orifice, forcing the teachers as we don't do politics. We don't do policy we were doing toll collection and covert action is with the agency supposed to do but so we we have we ever been flow with with whoever is is is our leadership and because they put in. And in those positions.

The individuals that match what what they want to do what what I've always find hope in the agency is the quality of people that we have and and and that was the impetus for me writing the book I got so tired of reading in the paper you know about it.

Nobody. The movies Jason Bourne American made all the stupid allegations about selling drugs and in neck in California and all this, in no Brian we have 137 stars on our wall as tenet and in the assisting lawyer or you know this is not like big Army we were talking a very relatively small operational component and we have 137 stars, and not only that 1/3 of those are post 9/11 and many of those I knew personally. So for me it's in the front that those individuals that we sent into harm's way and gave the life of this country are compared to Jason Bourne and in maniacal assassins and in this kind of stuff right what about the believing we say political you see guy like Brandon John John Brenner was a very detrimental to the agency because he became more political than any other DCI we've ever had and can afford that with each. We should not. You know, one of the things when you see the state of the union. The military sits in the middle. They don't applaud they don't nod they don't shake their heads, they're just there, that should be our posture.

We need to be remain apolitical, we could not be showing up a preference to one the right, left, or whatever you think, which are pending you depending too much on drones at absolutely. I mean, you know the deep.

The firm he is such a hypocritical stance. You know you will not allow us to go in there and take out Hitler in 1939, or Osama bin Laden in 1995, which you will send a drone into a unit and a place to kill two terrorists and you have 15 collateral damages and you have no collection due dongle to be able exploit the computers or the phones or anything and when we do that constantly is like oh well, we got a global whatever but if you propose the other. You're insane and Rick is not his book is fantastical black ops life. The CIA shadow worrier Rick, thanks so much as touch and TV.

Thank you very much. I to go pick up his book this in the right box news broadcast network subscribe and listen to the Tri-County podcast, former federal prosecutor and four term US Congressman from South Carolina brings you a one-of-a-kind podcast subscriber list now by doing a Fox News podcast.com