Announcement: When a CIA Veteran and a Behavioral Analyst Compare Notes… Things Get Real Fast
A Rare Dialogue Between Intelligence Experience and Behavioral Insight
Announcement: When a CIA Veteran and a Behavioral Analyst Compare Notes…Things Get Real Fast
A Rare Dialogue Between Intelligence Experience and Behavioral Insight
Something big is happening tomorrow.
And I want you to know about it before it breaks.
Tomorrow, I sit down with Margaret Henoch…a former Chief of Operations, Europe Division, with more than two decades inside the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), working operational missions that most people only hear about in dramatized documentaries.
This is a woman who has seen human behavior under the harshest light possible; pressure…deception…geopolitics…fear…ambition, betrayal…
…the entire psychological underworld that shapes world events long before any of us read about them.
And tomorrow…she and I will be sitting across from each other again…mics on…no script…no guardrails.
Yes…this is that conversation.
Now, let me be honest with you:
I have no idea what the line of questioning will be.
None.
Margaret does not telegraph her punches.
She doesn’t hand out cheat sheets.
She doesn’t sit around asking “friendly podcast questions.”
No.
She interrogates ideas the way she used to interrogate intelligence:
No fluff. No spin. No mercy for weak thinking.
And that’s why this interview matters.
Because when you’re dealing with someone who built a career decoding fear…motive, and human intent at the highest level…the conversation is automatically elevated to a plane most people never get access to.
And she wants to talk to me.
Not because I’m famous.
Not because I’m safe.
But because she has watched my work…and the way I decode political behavior…the way I break down emotional shockwaves…the way I map the psychology behind authoritarian drift… and the way I translate all of this into simple, street-level clarity.
She knows exactly what I do.
And tomorrow she’s going to ask about it.
At least…I suspect she will.
Again… this is Margaret Henoch we’re talking about.
She can (and will)…go anywhere the truth leads.
Why This Conversation Matters for YOU
Look, you and I both know something is happening in this country.
People are scared.
People are overwhelmed.
People are being manipulated…on a scale that is unprecedented in modern American life.
What’s worse?
Most news media no longer even attempts to explain human behavior.
They explain politics…as if the people making decisions are robots…not emotional creatures under immense pressure.
That’s why so many people feel like they’re drowning in chaos.
They’re trying to understand events…when they should be trying to understand behavior.
Events are unpredictable.
Human behavior is not.
That is the world where my work…and this entire newsletter…lives.
Every day, I break down psychological patterns:
Why authoritarian personalities escalate
Why fragile narcissists melt down and retaliate
Why bureaucracies fracture silently before they collapse publicly
Why certain groups numb themselves emotionally
Why others awaken like snapped rubber bands
Why cruelty spreads socially like a virus
Why dehumanization always precedes violence
This is the stuff that actually explains what’s happening.
Not the headlines.
Not the tweets.
Not the hot takes.
The psychological mechanics underneath the moment.
And tomorrow…sitting with someone who spent twenty years analyzing human motives for national security…I expect we’ll be diving straight into those mechanics…with a level of honesty that only two people steeped in behavioral truth-telling can pull off.
Let Me Tell You Something About Margaret Henoch
This woman has stood inside the machinery of intelligence operations.
She has:
evaluated sources the world later trusted
flagged cracks in intelligence no one wanted to hear
challenged institutional momentum
refused to nod along with groupthink
called out faulty analysis when careers depended on suppressing it
She was there during the Curveball era…one of the biggest intelligence failures in modern history…and she fought…internally…to expose the bad data before it led to disaster.
That takes guts.
That takes clarity.
That takes a mind unwilling to be bullied by consensus.
And now she’s running a podcast that cuts deeper than 99% of what’s out there.
Tomorrow, I step onto that ground with her again.
When Will It Release?
The interview records tomorrow.
I don’t have the release date yet.
Could be this week.
Could be next week.
But the moment it’s live…you’ll get it.
Because I want you to hear this one with fresh ears and a clear head…before the commentary crowd starts trying to digest it for you.
What I Want You to Take Away
I want you to hear how I think.
Not in an article.
Not in a tweet.
Not in a thread.
But in real time.
With real questions.
From someone whose entire professional life was built on detecting fear, reading motive, and assessing the psychological truth underneath the surface.
This is where my work lives.
At the intersection of:
psychology
human behavior
threat analysis
emotional pattern recognition
and democratic survival
That’s why I write the way I write:
Clear. Direct. Concise.
No jargon.
No academic fog.
No hedging.
Because you deserve tools.
You deserve understanding.
You deserve to know what’s happening in this country…and what it means for you…your family…and the democracy you live in.
Stay Ready
When the episode drops…you’ll get it instantly.
Until then…stay awake.
Stay aware.
Stay human.
Because the next chapter of America will not be written by people who look away from the truth…but by the people who look straight at it…understand it…and refuse to be numbed by it.
#HoldFast
Back soon,
-Jack
P.S. Free-subscribers…be watching for this within the next hour: At the urging of paid-subscriber, Barry Eisenberg, I will be posting the FULL…PAID SUBSCRIBER article from yesterday, with NO PAYWALL.
Which one?
I will look forward to it.
Sue
So looking forward to this!