# The role of the CIA in international conflict

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Podcast: [The Whistleblowers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-whistleblowers-7101397)
Published: 2026-05-17T21:10:02+00:00
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May 18, 2024 13:39 The role of the CIA in international conflict International affairs are at the top of the news all around the world. With hot conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and the Sahel, and would-be confrontations in the Taiwan Strait, the Red Sea, and elsewhere, there is a lot of reporting about various visits of the US secretaries of state and defense and of sensitive negotiations with this country or that. But what is the role of the CIA in all this? Is that role different now that the CIA is led by a professional diplomat? And how different is it now that the CIA is less an intelligence collection agency and more a para-military body? On this episode of the Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks with whistleblower and former senior CIA officer Mel Goodman to answer all these questions.

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