Jim Lawler MEMBER_OF Central Intelligence Agency
Jim Lawler was officially hired by the CIA as a case officer.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 116 Details
“He was officially hired by the Central Intelligence Agency as a case officer”
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person:jim_lawler
Also: Jim, Mad Dog
Former CIA case officer and guest who describes his espionage career and operations.
Former CIA case officer and guest who describes his espionage career and operations.
“A big thank-you to Jim Lawler, AKA, Mad Dog”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Central Intelligence Agency | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | SAME_AS | Mad Dog | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | targeting package | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | official cover | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | commercial cover | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | NOC | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | dropping cover | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | dead drop | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | brush pass | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | covert communication device | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | encrypted system | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | thumb drive | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | USES | one-time pad | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | AUTHORED | Living Lies: A Novel of the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program | Explicit | 116 |
| outgoing | AUTHORED | In the Twinkling of an Eye | Explicit | 116 |
Jim Lawler MEMBER_OF Central Intelligence Agency
Jim Lawler was officially hired by the CIA as a case officer.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 116 Details
“He was officially hired by the Central Intelligence Agency as a case officer”
Jim Lawler SAME_AS Mad Dog
The episode identifies Jim Lawler as Mad Dog, the nickname he earned after being bitten by a dog.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“So, that’s how I earned my nickname Mad Dog”
Jim Lawler USES targeting package
Jim uses targeting packages to identify desired information and develop relationships with prospective sources.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 116 Details
“they make something called a targeting package”
Jim Lawler USES official cover
Jim operated under official State Department cover while conducting clandestine CIA work.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“I was operating under official cover. I was under State Department cover”
Jim Lawler USES commercial cover
Jim recruited people while posing as a businessman or consultant under commercial cover.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“I’ve recruited people under commercial cover where I pretended to be a businessman”
Jim Lawler USES NOC
Jim says he posed as a NOC while using a businessperson pretext to recruit sources.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“I pretended to be a – what we call a NOC”
Jim Lawler USES dropping cover
Jim used dropping or breaking cover when revealing that he was a CIA officer to a recruit.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 116 Details
“They call this dropping cover”
Jim Lawler USES dead drop
Jim describes recovering concealed information, including thumb drives, through dead drops.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“do a dead drop where they hide the thumb drive”
Jim Lawler USES brush pass
Jim used or describes brush passes as a way for sources to hand over materials covertly.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“at a car pickup or a brush pass where they hand me things”
Jim Lawler USES covert communication device
Jim describes equipping sources with covert communication devices for electronic information transfer.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“We might equip them with what we call a covert communication device”
Jim Lawler USES encrypted system
Jim describes using encrypted systems for covert electronic communication with sources.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“using some type of – nowadays, some type of encrypted system”
Jim Lawler USES thumb drive
Jim describes receiving intelligence on thumb drives, including through dead drops.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“These days, they might download stuff to a thumb drive and provide it to me”
Jim Lawler USES one-time pad
Jim says that he and the Russians used one-time pads to encrypt messages.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jim Lawler EP 116 Details
“we and the Russians would use one-time pads”
Jim Lawler AUTHORED Living Lies: A Novel of the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
Jim says he published Living Lies, a fictional novel about disrupting Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 116 Details
“he did recently publish a book himself called Living Lies: A Novel of the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program”
Jim Lawler AUTHORED In the Twinkling of an Eye
Jim is identified as the author of the second book in the series, In the Twinkling of an Eye.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 116 Details
“The second book in the series is titled In the Twinkling of an Eye”