I was wondering who this ""Jim Bruce"" was that was photographed with Julie Swetnick.

Turns out - he was CIA! Are we surprised?

"Bruce is a political scientist with the RAND Corp., a wide-ranging contractor with many clients, including intelligence agencies. His focus — as it was during his 24 years as a CIA analyst — is researching intelligence collection, analysis and counterinsurgency. So it’s not surprising that Bruce’s office in a nondescript suburban Washington, D.C., building is on a highly secure floor. Doors have entry card scanners, safe-like combination locks and, in at least one case, a sign announcing a military operations simulation facility. Still, the question on the reception area sign-in sheet gives first-time visitors pause."

https://magazine.du.edu/news/korbel-grad-jim-bruce-recalls-his-cia-days/

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During his years with the CIA, Bruce researched and wrote many reports, including a 1983 study of political instability in the USSR. The study makes a strong case — six years ahead of time — for the possibility of the Soviet state’s implosion. The CIA later declassified the report “to show it actually saw the coming collapse,” Bruce says. Intelligence successes such as that report are “more frequent than thought, and not well known,” Bruce says.

In contrast, known failures, such as the case for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, are often huge and very public. The CIA, Bruce explains, “has a vested interest in successes remaining secret.” Otherwise, the agency would reveal its techniques.

While a staunch critic of intelligence leaks, Bruce is more than happy to discuss certain aspects of his field. Since leaving the CIA and joining RAND in 2006, he has done so in numerous published studies. Bruce also co-edited Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations (Georgetown University Press, 2008), a book that assesses of the state of post-9/11 intelligence analysis.