Jack Lawrence

Can you name anyone else the US has tried to extradite three times and failed?

If you put Snowden, Assange and Kim.com together, I've been tried to been extradited as many times as those three combined.

Some stupid, I don't know, low-level CIA agent had a wet dream and thought that I could turn my wife's parents or something.

And where this fits in is, remember, I was hitting five or six countries a week sometimes.

And so maybe not five or six, but three or four easily.

Three or four countries was not unusual in a week.

If you read books written by, like, former CIA recruitment officers, there's one on TikTok, and she talks about things they did in recruiting.

And

This actually goes back to even the OSS before the CIA and so forth.

And there's a movie called The Catcher Who Was a Spy.

And there was this baseball catcher who traveled throughout Europe during pre-prior World War II, and they recruited him to spy because he was traveling.

Far easier to recruit somebody who has a cover

Then it is to recruit somebody and build a company.

So I became a targeted individual and there were three recruitment attempts.

Well, one of them I knew was a recruitment attempt because it was clear about it.

The other two at the time I didn't realize, but then later I realized what they were.

And I thought they were just those countries trying to recruit me.

It was only later that I realized that

The three countries that tried to recruit me are all close US allies.

And the CIA does things typically with deniability.