Darrell Blocker - top CIA man had Israhelli flag at home, later converted

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From the Wide Awake Gentile at NWO Broadcasting Corp
DARRELL BLOCKER THE CIA'S BLACK JEWISH "SPY WHISPERER"
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Darrel. Blocker, known in the intelligence community as "the spy whisperer," was reportedly on a shortlist of candidates President-elect Joe Biden was considering to lead the CIA, the country's international intelligence service. If selected, he would be the agency's first Black director — and the third Jewish one.

Surprisingly he wasnt

Raised in a churchgoing Air Force family, Blocker began exploring Judaism in college and formally converted in 2017, just before retiring from the CIA as the most senior Black officer in the Directorate of Operations, a division once known as the clandestine service.

Blocker declined to comment on the reports that he is being considered for the CIA's top position, starting with one last week in Fox News. But in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, he described a passion for questioning authority that led him to success in the field and to embrace Judaism.

His father was in the Air Force and until he was 11, and Blocker lived in Japan, Italy and Texas before moving to his family's ancestral home in Augusta, Georgia, after his father retired.

At the University of Georgia, Blocker said he once again found himself moving between worlds, landing often at AEPi, the Jewish fraternity. There, he found something else: a community that was happy to brook his curiosity."That was kind of what attracted me to Judaism: the fact that I never once had a rabbi or anyone that was learned that asked me to stop asking questions," he said.

The stories he encountered when studying Torah also moved him, particularly the validation that the truth-telling spies, Joshua and Caleb, earned when their description of Canaan turned out to be correct.

He also found acceptance and warmth among his Jewish college friends and their parents, who would invite him for Shabbat meals.

Rachel Elovitz, in those days an AEPi "sweetheart" — the term once used for women who attached themselves to a fraternity — alerted the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to Blocker's Jewish journey. "He was part of our chevra," the Jewish frat's term for social circle, Elovitz, now an Atlanta lawyer, said in a Twitter message.

Blocker wore a chai pendant starting in college, and although he would wait decades to convert, he made his identification with Jews clear. He was an Air Force analyst for four years and applied for a job at the CIA around 1989. His entrance essay, he said, was about the Palestinian uprising taking place at that time.

As he rose through the ranks — serving in 10 countries, including Senegal, Uganda and Pakistan, and becoming chief of the CIA's Africa division — he did not hide his affection for Judaism. In Senegal, he hung an Israeli flag in his house.

My take is he rose through the ranks precisely because he did not hide his affection for Judaism. I believe his mother was Jewish or either or both of his parents were crypto Jews



American intelligence agencies have long been difficult terrain for Jews to navigate, with agents facing suspicions of dual loyalty. Blocker said he only recently became aware of the phenomenon when a Jewish retiree from the agency told him about issues he had encountered. Blocker said he never faced skepticism or hostility inside the agency or in the field, which he attributed to people perceiving him first as a Black American. By the time they discovered that he identified with Judaism, he said, they knew him and were less prone to judge.

In Uganda, where he was stationed beginning in 2003, Blocker also continued the singing career he began in his childhood church choir. He became a minor celebrity as a singer in a popular band in the capital of Kampala, according to an ABC profile last year that said he was once recognized in Kenya — as a singer, not a spy.

"I was undercover the entire time as a State Department official," he said at the Spy Museum, in an expansive speech and question-and-answer session where his folksy, open style of speaking was on full display. "I didn't have, you know, band cover. I just sang in a band because that's what I love to do."

Blocker disguised in Uganda as a guitarist and vocalist with a Jazz band and used his celebrity status to gain unlimited access and vacuum up classified information around the country.

Blocker did not take the leap to conversion until late in his career — 2015. He did not say what prompted him finally to "put my money where my mouth is," except to note that his father died on the first day of the year. Three weeks later, he was enrolled in a conversion course at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, where he had moved.

In 2017, after two years of instruction, he converted. "The conversion was on 21 Elul, 5777," he said, referring to the date on the Jewish calendar when he completed the process. A year later, he retired as the most senior Black officer in the CIA's Directorate of Operations, having served as the chief of the CIA's training facility. He identifies as Conservative, but spends the High Holy Days with one of two Modern Orthodox families.

He works in private security named Mosaic, a boutique strategic risk and crisis management, intelligence and security advisory firm

He also serves as an 'advisor" to Spyex a centralized hub for experts to connect corporate and private clients — including those in the entertainment industry — to experts from the CIA, KGB, FBI, Mossad and other top intelligence agencies and institutions.

Biden's team said he was seeking a diverse government that "looks like America." Avril Haines, a former CIA deputy director who is Biden's pick for director of national intelligence, would be the first woman in the job. The president-elect was reportedly also eyeing another former CIA deputy director, David Cohen, who is Jewish, for CIA director.

Biden's "diverse" cabinet is far from diverse

A nice touch of kosher "blackface" which unfortunately for Blocker didnt happen His White Jewish 'brothers and sisters " though were more then adequately represented in Biden's cabinet

The agency has had two Jewish directors before: James Schlesinger, who was born Jewish but converted as an adult to Christianity, ran it for six months in 1973, and John Deutch led it from May 1995 to December 1996. Of course no one really knows how many Operational Directors of the CIA were Jewish

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The CIA is run by the Jews for the Jews.