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Mike Baker

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“And I hope that what we don't see is if Trump when Trump comes into office, I think he and the people that he will have around him working on this issue will be sufficiently convinced that they have to maintain a level of support that allows Ukraine to sit down at the negotiating table from at least a position of relative strength. Otherwise, they're just sitting and they're asking for whatever they can get in this deal. And that's not going to sell. Zelensky's got to sell this to the Ukrainian population. This is an incredible moment in time, right? This is an invading force from Russia into another country, an independent country.”
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“territory the Ukrainians surprised us by taking ahead of sitting down and doing a negotiated settlement, which again is going to be very unsatisfying to all those people who put Ukrainian flags on their porch and they're going to get all their territory back. No, they're not. They don't have the ability to do that.”
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“Trump is one, takes us back to our original point of okay, what's Trump going to do and what's this going to look like after the inauguration? Trump's won. I think there's a calculation here. Putin could be saying, I've got to do everything now. I've got to throw everything I can to gain that Russian territory back before sitting down at a negotiating table and coming up with a deal. Because I don't want to sit at a negotiating table if Zelensky and NATO are saying we have part of your Russian territory. You want it back? Well, we're going to need this back. We're going to need eastern Ukraine back. Or we're going to need Crimea back. I don't think he's ever given back Crimea. But it's likely, I think, if you have to make these decisions and without real insight into his mindset, it's true. It's all speculation. But I wouldn't be surprised if what he's calculated right now is I got to throw all these troops to regain this Russian.”
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“So North Korea, because Kim Jong-un of North Korea is best buddies now with Putin, he has sent upwards of twelve thousand troops to Russia, and they are now on the front lines, essentially. They're already in combat. But they're an important part of Putin's effort. And I think what he's trying to do.”
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“And we do that as a nation sometimes in the US where we imagine that people are going to react the same way or think the same way about freedom or democracy. And it's not how the world works. Just going back here to the incursion into Russia that the Ukrainian military did. So they're holding territory up there. Maybe it depends on who you talk to. Maybe 500 square miles, it varies, but they've stretched their resources relatively thin. And that's a problem because it all goes back to war as long as we've known war, which is supply lines, right? If you can't maintain your supply lines, you've lost the plot. And so what we're seeing right now is Putin has amassed about 40,000 Russian troops and about 10,000 North Korean troops. And that's another story.”
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“Just a little bit. And this piece more. And then he took a little. Over here in the States, right? You had this isolationist feeling. So World War II is happening, and they don't want any of it, right? They've gone through World War I. They sent a lot of their boys over, and they were like, no, screw it. You know, look, we got this big ocean here. We don't have to worry about it. And yeah, that's a problem. But you see that now. There's some of this isolationist attitude, which is why do we even care? And that's, okay, fine. That's a great question to ask. People should ask questions like that. I'm telling you, having worked against Russia for a long period of time, it's a mistake not to take Putin at his word, right? And we tend to always mirror our values. It's like when we were talking about the cab driver, how do you get him into a conversation? When you start to mirror the values, right?”
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“And so I think I understand what their mindset is. It's like Israel, right? Sometimes it's like, oh my God, why is Israel acting the way they do? Well, because they're surrounded by a ring of terrorist proxy that all are there to serve the purpose of the Iranian regime, which is to destroy Israel. So that's their mindset, right? We don't live there. We don't understand it. So to say, okay, well, that's ridiculous for someone in the US to go, that's ridiculous that that's Putin. Okay, well, fuck off. You don't live here, right? You're not in Poland watching this if he takes over in Ukraine.”
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“I take him at his word when he says he wants to recreate the former Soviet Union in a fashion. Do I think this is enough of a buffer from NATO for him? I don't think so. Do I think he might consider moving a little bit further north? Look, he already has. This is Belarus. Belarus is a solid ally of Putin. But is there a chance that he says to himself, well, maybe over here he's already made verbal threats up here. Is that Latvia? Latvia, yeah”
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“Yep, it takes Ukraine. It's not as if he's going to say, okay, I'm done. I'm finished, right? They believe. Now, whether they're right or not, but this answers the question about why such strong NATO support, they believe that that's not his inclination, right? It's not in his character to say, that's all I want. I'm good.”
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“Well, think about where Ukraine is. About where Poland is looking, Russian missiles have flown errantly into Poland. Their history tells them or informs them that if Putin takes this”
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“Without that support, this thing would never have lasted this long, never. And so I think Putin in part has been very surprised. He miscalculated a lot of things, but he miscalculated the sort of support that Ukraine would receive from NATO in particular. Now”
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“Was for the Ukrainian military was that they did a surprise offensive into Kursk, which is Russian territory. And in doing that, that was the first time there were foreign troops on Russian turf, right? Since World War II. And that really shocked the hell out of Putin and the Russian military. And they acted as if they really didn't know how to respond, didn't have the resources to respond. But this is a game of attrition, right? We're going into our full third year earlier this coming year. What's kept them in the fight is US support and NATO support. EU's done a very good job. I mean, look, they've picked up a great part of the effort.”
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“When this war got started in the first year, year and a half, everybody was, you know, they were putting their flags, Ukrainian flags on their porch. They were putting a little flag on their ex site, their Twitter site. And there's no doubt. The Ukrainian military has been incredibly courageous in the population of Ukraine has put up with a great deal. Look, the months of September and October of this year. Those two months there's only been one night when Kiv hasn't been under attack by Russian drones. Which is, if you think about it, is insane. And that's just Kief. All their other major. Cities have also been under attack by the Russians, they've destroyed much of their energy infrastructure. Now, a bright spot.”
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“This is the eastern part of Ukraine right here is Ukraine. Front line, this is not, I mean, you know, I'm simplifying this, but frontline stretches about 600 miles. He's also annexed, of course, Crimea, but that's another issue here. And that's the only port for their Black Sea fleet, which Ukrainian military has frankly destroyed almost at this stage of the game. But they own at this stage, they've got about 20% of Ukraine, if you were to say, stopped us shooting now. Then the problem is that at the outset of this war, Zelensky and the Ukrainian government. said, you know, the only answer here is total victory. We have to get all our territory back. Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporia, we have to get it all back. And that is not, again, it's not satisfying to say this, but it's not possible. So the problem that is being faced right now is”
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“Well, I mean, if you wanted sort of a theoretical 30,000 foot answer, Putin has repeatedly referred to the collapse of the Soviet Union as a greatest disaster of the twentieth century. And he meant it, right? And so he's been trying, and he hasn't been shy about it ever since he's been in charge, which seems now like about 100 years, to recreate The glory, the strength of the former Soviet Union in some capacity, not entirely. He's not crazy, but he is completely jonesing for some form of a stronger Russia. And in his mind, that means he's got to have a buffer zone between him and NATO. And so this is part of that. He also considers, if you think about it right here. He's basically saying. This is mine, right? If you think that”
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“The Russian military is gaining ground in the eastern part of Ukraine, in Danetsk in particular. The front line is about 600 miles long, 620 miles long. overall right now if you said stop the war stop the fighting right now Russia controls 20% of Ukraine And”
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“An institute in Kyiv does these very interesting surveys of Ukrainian citizens throughout Ukraine, not just in Kyiv, on a regular basis. And they ask questions like, you know, are you willing to fight indefinitely? Are you willing to stay in the game? Are you willing to give it your all? For however long it takes. And to that question, to that phrasing, the beginning of the year, 73% said yes, right, of the citizenry. Last month it was 63%. And so that's a 10% drop is significant when we're talking about the fate of your nation. They're losing soldiers at an alarming rate, and they have a significant disadvantage to the Russians in terms of manpower. The Russian manpower as, depending on who you talk to, maybe a three to one advantage in terms of available combatants.”
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“Yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. It's going to end it on day one. I'm going to stop this war. Set Trump over here to the side for a second. And you have to look at what's happening on the ground with Ukraine and Russia, because that will determine whether Trump's going to be successful in any move that he makes. The problem that Ukraine is facing right now is, A, they're going into winter and a massive percentage of their energy infrastructure has been destroyed by Russia. So it's going to be a very hard winter. You look at the resolve of the Ukrainian people.”
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“It's probably not consequential in the fact that I don't know that the Democrats, they don't seem to be doing it yet. I don't think they're going to be particularly self-aware or introspective. They spent months longer than that referring to a large portion of the population as moronic, as unintelligent, as sexist, as racist, as garbage, as fascists, as Nazis, right? How you do that and then not understand how you've just gotten kicked in the ass during the election, I'm not quite sure, but they seem incapable right now of any sort of reflection on what they need to do as a party to maybe turn things around. So I don't know consequentially whether it's going to change the Democrat Party for the next election. But yeah, it'll be. And then you have to ask yourself okay, the policies that are important.”
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“What do they say? Don't talk about politics, religion, or taxes. So yes, I think it is consequential. I think it was something that very few people predicted the size of the victory. Look, he took all the swing states, right? He turned a surprising number of districts in favor of the Republicans in states that he didn't win He outperformed in most categories, right? The demographics were rather shocking, right? People wanted to talk about how well it's going to be come down to the women voters. Well, it didn't, right? Fewer women voters voted for Kamala Harris than they did previously for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, right? And he gained in suburban voters women voters. So it's consequential in reshaping, at least in the short to midterm, people's understanding of the electorate, I think.”
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“Don't get bogged down in what could happen, what might happen. And that was another thing I think I did well at the agency was I didn't ever sit around and stare at my belly button and think, well, I wonder what would have happened if I'd done this. Now, you live with your mistakes, you live with your consequences, you live with the good things. Life is tough enough as it is, right? And we just seem like we want to make it tougher, and I don't ever understand that.”
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“To my folks all the time. If you think you would be happier somewhere else, you got to go give it a try. If you think you'd be happier going out and starting a business, you should do that, right? But you got Got to jump in. And I know this is probably not as detailed as a psychiatrist would give, but I really do honestly believe that any major decision you can distill it down to a very, very limited number of options. And that makes it easier. But if you just sit there staring at it, and people do, I would see this in operations all the time. People would just start imagining all the different scenarios. And I thought, you know what, honest to God. When the whistle goes, right, and the ambush starts, usually you shouldn't start an ambush with a whistle, you know, it's going to go one way, another way.”
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“I'm going to take this job. Okay, what does that mean? Well, it means I'm taking a chance. Okay, people talk about writing your positives and your negatives down. I don't know whether that's really a helpful thing or not, right? Because then you get lost in this list and then you start imagining positives and negatives. And then it's a, so I always try to say, look, you got to, you don't act just for the sake of acting, right? That's sometimes has its own negative consequences. But you take the information you've got and then you just you make a decision, right? Because if you, again, if it's the inertia of not acting, if you're in an unhappy relationship and you say, you know, what do I do? Do I stay in this unhappy relationship? Because maybe it's going to get better. Okay, what are the odds of that happening, right? It's been going on for 10 years. Maybe you're not happy. Get the hell out, right? Do something different. If you're thinking about changing your job, if you're not happy in your job, which is a quality of life issue, right? And I tell that.”
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“We tend to overthink everything and we tend to overcomplicate things when we're faced with a decision whether it's do I leave my job, do I move, whatever it might be, do I take a big strategic decision for my company, you tend to overcomplicate, right? I've always found, and maybe I'm simple-minded, but one of the things that I took away from the agency is that life sometimes is just as simple as it seems, right? And again, why I'm not a big conspiracy theorist. So, if you narrow it down and say, look, I'm not faced with an endless array of options here. You know, I may have on any big decision, I may have two or three options, right?”
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“That's actually really good. It's a good point. Yeah. The agency teaches you through sort of repetition and understanding that, I'm sorry you waited too long. This is not good. But in a better sense, I think what I've learned also is, look, I tell my kids this all the time. I tell my boys and my daughter this is it. There's never that many options on the decision tree, right? Not that life's completely binary, but”
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“You're never going to get all the information you want in business. But there are a lot of people who get paralyzed by that they want all the data. They want to be able to think through. And that's a good thing if that's your mindset, but something bad's going to happen, or you're going to miss an opportunity. It's going to pass you by. And so one of the things that the agency taught was just make a damn decision, right? With the information that you've got, you're always going to want more, but with the information that you've got, whether it's imperfect or not, understand the nature of that information, but then just make a damn decision, right?”
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“make decisions. And I think that's, again, long-winded answer to your question, which is probably the most important thing I took away was what I referred to as getting off the axe. And the axe is the ambush site. In the old days, you don't want to end up on the ambush site. That's a bad place to be. And there are indicators, right? Whether you're talking about being in Mexico and rolling up on a cartel ambush or you're talking about being overseas in a place like Iraq and you're in a convoy movement and you have to understand what the indicators are that something bad is going to happen if you don't make a decision.”
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“Conversation and record it in particular jurisdiction, or no, you can't do the following because the information you're gathering is going to end up in court. It's got to be evidentially proper. So things have to be done in an appropriate way. So if you don't know all those things, then you're going to get yourself crosswise somehow. Know your operating environment is a key thing. This is a constant surprise sometimes with some companies that we start working with where you realize that they don't necessarily understand the operating environment, where they're working, what the market restrictions are, what their competitors are doing, right? What the government is like in that particular country, what the instability issues are, whatever it may be, you put all that together, you know your operating environment, you know your risk, you define your mission, and then at some point you got to...”
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“Then, you know, your battle's half won, right? You've really, you know, you've cracked that nut. But then other parts of it are you've got to know your risk appetite and the agency spends a lot of time. I guess that was my point from earlier is that a lot of people think the agency just goes out and does shit. Let's just go blow that building up. But let's go pick up that high value target or let's go whatever it is we're going to do. And they don't give any thought to it because that's how the movies operate, right? And they just like, yeah, go do this shit. There's a lot of time spent on risk versus gain. And what's the potential blowback? What are those scenarios look like? So you have to know your risk appetite and you have to communicate that because everybody has to be on the same page as to what's allowable and what's not allowable. And that's true in private sector as well. We have to note you can't do this. You can't have a one-party kind of”
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“within, again, within the bounds of what you can do to give them the best information so that they can then win in whatever they're working or operating. And then I think if you hire smart people and you explain the mission, you communicate that properly to them.”
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“I mean, first and foremost, it was, we'll start out with the first one that I put down, which is define the mission, right? So the agency does that very well. At the very outset, you spend a lot of time sitting in classrooms, listening to people explain how the agency works, why it works the way it does, where it fits within the government, what its mission is. And if you don't know that, right, then whether it's the CIA or whether it's your business, then you've got a problem. You probably shouldn't really get started. And then you have to communicate that mission. And that's what they did very, very well. And so I took that away and I was always very simple-minded in terms of a business. I always knew what I wanted to do, which was provide, again, the best quality product possible. That's how you get companies to stay with you for 20 years, right? They know you're going to bust your ass and you're going to overproduce. And you're going to do everything.”
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“But we couldn't have done that if I hadn't absorbed some of that training and those rules as I put them from the agency. So that's why I wanted to try to say, look, this is why I was able to do this and keep a business breathing. Look, we haven't built a mega corporation, but we built a nice life for a lot of people, right?”
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“Of the CIA, right? And so what I hadn't realized was I, because I thought when I got out, look, people asked me when I said I was going to leave. I didn't retire. I was too young to retire. I was leaving, right? I left behind my pension and everything. There was no financial reason to do what I did. So their question was always the same, which, what the hell are you going to do? And I didn't have an answer, which probably should have been a red flag, but I knew I was going to have to go into kind of this world of gathering information, of security services. Because I don't think I'd fit anywhere else. And so it took me a long time to realize that the reason why I was able to build a business and I couldn't have built a business without a very, very close friend of mine, Nick Day, who came out of SBS and MI5.”
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“I felt like for me over a short period of time after I'd been involved in private sector for quite a while. It suddenly occurred to me that the reason why we were able to keep a business breathing was because of some of these things that I absorbed from the company, these rules. And it's not like there's a book. They don't hand you a book and say, here is your company rules on day one, right? They're implied, they're kind of embedded in the training process.”
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“Yeah. That's probably, look, we had Hollywood makeup artists there. I mean, they're disguise unit is legendary, amazing what they can do”
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“Yeah. Yeah, on occasion, which was great. Yeah. I mean, if you, I love the acting part of it, right? Because I would get completely absorbed in it, right? And I loved it. So I didn't have a problem. Sometimes people don't enjoy it or they don't. If you're not confident, if you don't have, if you're put on a disguise, whether it's a full overhead mask or whether it's just a disguise kit or whatever, if you're not comfortable doing that, it'll show out. But if you're walking down the street in disguise, nobody on that street is thinking, oh, that guy's in disguise. It's not how people think, right? So unless you do something stupid, it's not going to show out.”
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“But you have to because you're not working for a government, the guardrails have now shrunk, right? In terms of what you can do. And so you have to know what is legally appropriate in each jurisdiction. And that changes, right? What you can do over here is different than what you could do in the UK or in France or in the US or wherever. So as long as you know what the parameters are, then you do that, right? To gather information that's going to benefit the client.”
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“A country we've never operated in before. Pick a country. Tell us everything we need to know. What are the problems? What are the risks? What are the threats? How do you assess that? It could be we've had a fraud, and now we've had theft of intellectual property. We need to know how bad it is. It could be we're doing a joint venture and we just need to know about who we're investing in. You never know. It could be that they're saying, look, we're not having any success in maybe they're in the mining sector. We're not having any success in Africa where we're trying to pick up these licenses. And yet these other companies are picking them up left and right. What are we doing wrong? What are they doing right? Who are they dealing with? So now we're getting closer to what you referred to as corporate espionage.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Strategic intelligence and investigation sl It could be there could be an element of that, yes. I'm not going to deny that. Look, there are corporations out there that are very aggressive in understanding what other companies are doing in particular. But what we got started in was primarily. A company will come to you and say we're making an investment.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My daughter was young, and I was in the process of getting a divorce, which took a while. My ex-wife, great person, but not compatible by the end. I think my career was a little difficult. And so I needed to do something that kept me. Closer to home?”
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“There's a lot of talking about the psychology of the recruitment process, which means you're diving into profiling individuals, the psychology of how people think. what that process does to an individual. It's interesting. I mean, there's some folks who I think struggled with that more than others. And I think the idea of getting people to that point, of recruiting people, I think some folks, I think, found it difficult, maybe problematic, because of the manipulation involved. Again, not necessarily being a deep thinker, I didn't sit a lot of the time at home angstridden over whether I was being manipulative or not. I would just, I have a task, I'm going to do the task and then move on. But the training can take quite a while, can be a couple of years before they feel like you're ready to go out.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How do you go undercover use of the skies? There's surveillance, counter-surveillance. There's a lot to, when I just say tradecraft, what that involves. And then there's other training. There's paramilitary training and other things that you do.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's everything from tradecraft, which is a key part of it, and tradecraft encompasses a lot of things, right? It's how do you conduct yourself overseas? How do you do clandestine communications?”
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“You can't always get that, but that's what you're looking for. Another reason to meet back up with that individual seemingly just for no other reason that it just happens, right? I mean, it's like this morning, I got in a car, was an Uber. And at the end of the drive, the guy gives me his card says, hey, if you ever need a ride or whatever, I've got a couple of cars. And so this is kind of what I do. Plus I do the Uber. I like that as well. And so now, yeah, fine. I can give him a call back, right? And I've done that overseas in cases where I've said, look, I need to know that I can get from point A to point B tomorrow. Can I just call you rather than hope that I catch a cab? There are a lot of ways you can do this. It's not rocket science, you know, but it can be It can be difficult when you're talking about a high value target.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh no, no, no, not at all, not at all. So what do you want to do? You want to have a reason to meet up again, right? You're always looking in simple terms. You get that first encounter. What do you want? Well, you want a second encounter. So you've got to find some reason for that. Now, sometimes it's easier than other times, right? So you can't.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, yeah, something along those lines. Oh, you're just looking for You're building a profile of the person's personality, right? So you're trying to understand what's important to them. You're trying to understand what drives them. You're trying to understand where their problems are. You're trying to understand if they have any grievances. You're looking for, you're really just building a map of what this person is like.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But then you're just looking for other points of access. And what that turns into is points of leverage. So that sounds once you take it far enough down the walk, it can sound very mercenary. And it is. You're talking about, again, asking people to do something that's not necessarily in their best interests, but you're doing it for a very stated purpose. Now, again, a lot of people will listen to this and go, that's just bullshit. You're just doing it for the man, right? You're doing it for the government. Okay, well. You know what? Nations that are hostile to U.S. interests or UK's interests or Australia's interest or Canada's interest or Europe's interest. They're doing this all the time and they're doing it a lot more aggressively and with no guardrails about how they behave. Yeah.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we were drinking and bumped into him at the bar. And, you know, we started talking. And it turns out that his passion was chess. Suddenly my passion is chess. Problem is, you got to demonstrate that, right? And I sucked at it. So quick crash course in how to at least make myself look somewhat reasonable.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The amount of information you can gather from people, maybe it's someone who's working as a cleaner in a building. Maybe it's a cab driver. It doesn't matter. It's a secretary and a business, right? You're looking for people with access who they're just going to be inclined to talk. It sounds odd sometimes, but you get that conversation going. You find things that the person's interested in, then you start mirroring that perhaps. Maybe that, oh, you know, I'm interested in that too. Maybe I'm not. Maybe I find it boring as hell. There was one where it was like chess. I was like, God damn, I hate chess. But the guy was really into chess, right? And it was overseas.”
2024-11-28 · The Diary of a CEO · Mike Baker (Ex-CIA Spy): China Is Preparing & We're Not Paying Attention! Here's What Happens If They Takeover! 5 Spy Tricks You Can Use To Get What You Want! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Maybe there's a security guard or some people just sitting around. They love the talk, right? Because they've got nothing else going on in their day, right? And so the information you can get from people, whether it's a security guard sitting in a booth all day long who's suddenly going to tell you, well, no, the plant is only up and operating Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Or, you know, this is the number of trucks that are coming out. A little benign stuff that no one's going to think.”
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