Chatter: CIA Paramilitary Ops in Reality and Fiction

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Of all of the Central Intelligence Agency's activities, paramilitary operations might remain the least understood. This, in part, is both a cause and a consequence of inaccurate portrayals of such work in prominent movies; it's also because fewer memoirs come from the CIA's Special Activities Division than from traditional human intelligence collectors and from analysts. David Priess chatted with former CIA officer Ric Prado about the fiction and the reality of CIA paramilitary operations, including stories Ric tells in his book, “ Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior .” They spoke about what Hollywood gets wrong about intelligence work, Ric's escape as a child from Castro's Cuba,…