Mark Polymeropoulos

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The Rest Is Politics: US · 175. TRUMP CALLS FOR IRAN CEASEFIRE – WILL IT HOLD? · 8 Apr 2026 podcast

And the CIA was great at this tactical intelligence.

I remember sitting down with Bill Burns, the former CIA director, before he took office.

He was my ambassador in Jordan.

So I got to see him.

I had retired, but I went to see him at Langley.

And he said, what do I need to do?

And I said, we're really good at killing people.

We're not really good at answering key questions from policymakers on strategic intelligence against hard targets.

So it would be right now in Iran is, what is the status, of course, of the Iranian leadership?

Who has the power?

You know, and that means we have to have a penetration of senior members of the Iranian kind of inner circle.

So, and that's hard to do.

Now, again, can we get, can we find, fix and finish Iranian leadership, put a Hellfire missile somewhere or, you know, a Teelam missile?

Sure.

But

I'm talking about recruiting an agent who is going to answer those questions.

Number two is what are Iran's plans and intentions right now in the negotiations?

So, for example, the CIA would need to steal the secret of the paper that the Iranian foreign ministry, the IRGC, whoever it is, is going to write as they go into discussions in Islamabad, which apparently is taking place in several days.

We need to have that information for our policy.

I don't know if we can do that.

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