Jane DOE (00:03): Welcome to the Intelligence Jumpstart, the new podcast from the Intelligence Community’s (IC) university. I am your host Jane DOE. You know, since 1962, the National Intelligence University has educated some of the IC’s most notable leaders, and now we want to give you an Intelligence Jumpstart.

This is not your average podcast. It's our mission to jumpstart your intelligence education to build a transparent and truthful source of information.

Get ready for an exciting inaugural season as we explore Hollywood, conspiracy theories, truth, trust, and transparency with our expert guests from academia, the IC, and beyond. Each episode, I get to learn from and co-host your jumpstart with research faculty and fellows from the Ann Caracristi Institute for Intelligence Research.

Have you ever wondered how your life is affected by the Intelligence Community? Then it would be a shame for you to miss out on Manolis Minutes … these bite-sized segments pack a whole lot of fact through pop culture, literature, and historical reference.

Ultimately, our goal is to earn your trust with cutting-edge research about topics on your mind and with guests whose names you know and trust.

No, you don't need to be a career intelligence professional to follow us here. You have to follow us to get your own Intelligence Jumpstart.

Manolis Priniotakis (1:23): I’m Manolis Priniotakis, NIU’s Vice President for Research & Infrastructure and this is this episode’s Manolis Minute.

We have a great line up for our inaugural season, including thought leaders from inside and outside of the IC. Over the course of the next seven episodes, you’ll hear from a range of thinkers and experts from academia and government … hosted by members of the NIU community.

You’ll also be hearing from me on what we’re calling a Manolis Minute.

Next week’s guest is Chris Costa, executive director of the International Spy Museum. He’ll be talking about Hollywood’s long fascination with intelligence.

Of course, Hollywood has been interested in espionage and spies from its earliest days, often adaptations of the burgeoning production of spy novels in the late 19th century. Alfred Hitchcock produced a number of these thrillers that set the stage for today’s spy movies.

North by Northwest may be his most famous, but I prefer an earlier film from 1936 … Sabotage … starring Sylvia Sidney and Oscar Homolka … who made a career of playing Soviet officers despite being from Austria. And Holmolka was, as a side note, at one-time the brother-in-law of Katharine Graham, the longtime publisher of the Washington Post.

Sabotage is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent. It tells the story of an English woman facing the possibility that her husband is a foreign asset of some unclear origin.
Contemporary viewers will enjoy some pretty bumbling surveillance by British counterespionage officers and the subtext of attacks on critical infrastructure in London of the 1930s … well before PPD21.

Again, Sabotage, is directed by Alfred Hitchcock and is from 1936.

Thanks again for listening to Intelligence Jumpstart. For more information on NIU, please visit our website, www.NI-U.edu.