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Dean Baratta

Dean Baratta

Intelligence analyst with 35+ years across military, government, and private sectors; worked in counterintelligence, law enforcement, and corporate security at Microsoft/GitHub.

Jun 4, 2026

6:40
Right.
6:42
You're worried about even on a tactical level, you're worried about what avenue of approach this battalion or this company is going to take to get from, you know, this place to that place, not how is this person smuggling drugs from New York City to Philadelphia and how are they, you know, what's their background and how are they likely to get leveraged and that sort of thing.
7:01
So that was it was both very exciting.
7:04
It was a huge, very steep learning curve.
7:07
But it was great because it was the first time I think I was actually able to see concrete results of my work.
7:13
Right.
7:13
The first time you turn on the local news and there is a story about a large arrest and drugs taken off the street.

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Do you have a view? Do you have a third view? Do you view it as a specific discipline, something separate from everything else? How would you define it or describe it to people?

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