Podcast

Thomas "Tom" Pecora: Former CIA Senior Team Leader and GRS Veteran - Episode 62

Grey Dynamics welcomes Thomas Pecora, a former CIA senior security manager and GRS veteran with over twenty-four years of experience in protective operations, crisis management, physical security, and counterterrorism missions in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan and the Philippines.

Tom was awarded the Intelligence Star "for voluntary acts of courage performed under hazardous conditions" and the Career Intelligence Medal for "exceptional achievements that substantially contributed to the mission of the agency”. He is also an adjunct professor at Wright State University and the author of Guardian: Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA’s War on Terror.

Intelligence Reports

Media Control: Assault on Democratic Safeguards in Washington

In the United States, the role of professional journalism as a check on power, the so-called “fourth branch of government,” is under assault. Driving the trend are political and structural shifts in media ownership in the nation’s capital and significant recent changes in government control of the flow of public information about the current administration. Facilitating the trend is the rise online of free information and entertainment products created by untrained content producers–“influencers” and “citizen journalists”–and declining media literacy in the populace. We do not see any indications of a credible countermovement rising to reverse this trend in the coming months.

In-depth Articles & Guides

FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT): Domestic Delta

The FBI HRT (Hostage Rescue Team), is the United States premiere hostage rescue team and was founded with the help of Delta Force aka Combat Applications Group (CAG) sometimes referred to as "Domestic Delta".

The world is constantly changing, over the past 50 years the proliferation of non-state actors has made small teams of highly specialised elite soldiers a must-have for every military on the planet. The various special mission units of the US military’s Joint Special Operations Command are the tools which the US uses to fight against terrorist organizations abroad.

Domestically, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is responsible for preventing and combating terrorism within the borders of the US. The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is the Bureau's response to increased hostage-taking and terrorist attacks within the US. Known for its motto Servare Vitas, To Save Lives, its speciality in hostage rescue and counter-terror operations makes it the foremost and most effective team at the disposal of the FBI. Its purpose is to rapidly respond to and solve critical situations pertaining to hostage rescue and domestic terror.