Dan Smith
Career Foreign Service officer and former U.S. ambassador to Greece who served as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, bringing institutional history and analytic perspective to the discussion.
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Feb 5, 2026 • 45min
Where Intelligence Meets Diplomacy
Dan Smith, career Foreign Service officer and former U.S. ambassador to Greece, brings institutional history. Phil Goldberg, four-time ambassador, offers deep diplomatic and analytic experience. They explore the tiny Bureau of Intelligence and Research, its OSS origins, real-time crisis watches, independent analysis and dissent, how diplomatic reporting shapes intelligence, and risks from cuts to analytic capacity.
