Transcript (en)

Is there a poker game at the CIA? Oh, I won lots of money in CIA poker. My goal was every time... Hold on, hold on, wait. Was it Hold'em or PLO? No, it was just straight, you know, five-card stud or three-card draw. Yeah. We would always have to play poker in foreign languages because it was seen as kind of a training exercise. But everyone was speaking the same language. Okay, so that's allowed. That's allowed. There's an Arabic game over here. There's a French game over there. There's a Chinese game over here. Wow. It was fun. And you thought you were one of the better players? Yeah. I guess you know how much you won. My goal was always to win enough for a tank of gas home. Yeah. It was a smaller game. Yeah. Yeah, it was a smaller game. I guess that tells you how good you are at your job, though. If you're reading people. That is a good exercise, actually. I got a lot out of it. Yeah, that's good. I really did. And you know, the funny thing is, too, one of the interesting sort of sidelights was that you get to play poker with some really important people. Oh, yeah. And you made good contacts that way.