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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1645 - Christopher Mellon

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 180 minutes

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Christopher Mellon spent nearly twenty years in Washington serving in various intelligence roles, among them Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, and Former Minority Staff Director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Joe Rogan,

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Logan Experience.

0:06.0

Train by day Joe Rogan Podcast, all day.

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All day.

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All day. All right. Well, thanks for being here, man. Appreciate it.

0:17.0

Pleasure, absolutely pleasure. Tell everybody who you are and what your

0:20.6

background is. Okay, my name is Chris Mellon,

0:23.9

and I spent about 20 years working for Uncle Sam,

0:27.8

worked in the Senate for the Intelligence Committee,

0:31.4

and for Senator Cohen also did some Armed Services Committee work.

0:35.0

When he was asked to become Secretary of Defense, he asked me if I would like to go with him to the Pentagon,

0:41.0

be part of his team, and I was honored and gladly accepted. So I then served for

0:47.7

four years in the Defense Department with Senator Cohen, Secretary Cohen at

0:51.6

that point in various positions, all intelligence related, and security related.

0:58.9

And then I was asked to stay on after Clinton departed and so I worked for Secretary Rumsfeld.

1:07.0

And then went back to the Senate Intelligence Committee as the Minority Staff Director shortly before the Second

1:15.3

Iraq War.

1:16.3

So when did you get interested in the subject of UFOs?

1:22.4

That happened at a surprisingly early age.

1:25.0

I was seven years old at a boarding school and the principal of the school

1:30.0

a friend of his had photographed video, an old real-to-reel-reel-codac movie camera,

1:37.0

taking a movie, a home movie of a video of a UFO flying in beautiful blue skies, cumulus clouds, huge golden disk that comes into the picture

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