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Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA covert intelligence officer who operated on six of seven continents from 2007 to 2014, founder of EverydaySpy, and co-author of Shadow Cell: An Insider Account of America's New Spy War. He has been one of the most credible and most consistently returned guests on the Julian Dorey Podcast — and in this segment he covers the most consequential geopolitical and intelligence questions of 2026 with the specific analytical lens that only someone who has been inside the apparatus can bring. Israel in American politics. The CIA and Mossad partnership. His reaction to Trump's reelection. The US China conflict and his prediction. The Ukraine war situation. The Epstein file declassification. And what he is working on now.

The Israel in American politics thread is the episode's most politically significant and most carefully argued opening. Bustamante brings a former intelligence officer's framework to the question of Israeli influence in American political life — not as a partisan argument but as an analytical one about how foreign governments operate in the American political environment and what the documented record of that operation looks like from someone who has seen how these influence campaigns work from the inside of the institution that is supposed to be tracking them.

The CIA and Mossad partnership thread is the episode's most institutionally sensitive contribution. Bustamante has been more willing than almost any other former CIA officer to engage honestly with the question of how deep the CIA-Mossad relationship actually goes — what the formal structure of the partnership looks like, where the genuine analytical disagreements between the two agencies exist, and what the practical reality of an intelligence relationship built over seventy years means for the question of where American interests end and Israeli interests begin when the two agencies are working the same problem.

Bustamante's reaction to Trump's reelection adds the most personally revealing dimension. How a former CIA officer processes a presidential transition that has involved significant restructuring of the intelligence community — including the appointment of figures with specific and documented views about CIA's conduct — is a thread that most coverage of the intelligence community has not examined from this vantage point. His assessment of what Trump's return means for CIA operations domestically and internationally is one of the most practically informed available.

The Epstein file declassification closes the segment with the most personally significant thread for Julian's audience. What a former CIA covert officer thinks when he reads files that JD Vance said on Joe Rogan implicate CIA and Mossad connections at the highest level is a question that only someone with Bustamante's specific background can answer with genuine authority — and his assessment of what the files reveal and what they carefully avoid revealing is the most complete insider take on the Epstein intelligence question available publicly.

**Inside This Clip:**

- Israel in American politics — Bustamante's intelligence framework for understanding Israeli influence operations

- The CIA and Mossad partnership — what the formal structure and the practical reality actually look like

- Where genuine analytical disagreements between CIA and Mossad exist and what they reveal

- Andrew Bustamante's per