What the Wirecard Scandal Tells us about Russian Intel Operations

March 04, 2021 | Sonya Seunghye Lim

Sonya Seunghye Lim is a former Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency. Before retiring from the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service, she had a 24-year distinguished career in the ...

March 02, 2021 | The Cipher Brief

In a letter obtained by The Cipher Brief this week, former CIA Directors and Acting Directors, including former Director Gina Haspel, endorsed CIA Director Bill Burns in his new role ...

March 02, 2021 | Walter Pincus

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics.  In ...

March 02, 2021 | Eagle Down

BOOK REVIEW: Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War by Jessica Donati / PublicAffairs Reviewed by Damon Walsh, Chairman, Mission Solutions Group THE REVIEWER — Damon Walsh is a ...

March 01, 2021 | Debra Richardson and Rob Lively

Rob Lively retired after 28 years of military service, as the Command Sergeants Major of a Special Missions Unit within The United States Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. ...

February 26, 2021 | Emile Nakhleh

Emile Nakhleh is a retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Officer and founding director of the CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program Office. He is also a Research Professor and Director ...

February 26, 2021 | Anonymous

A COMPLIMENT FOR THE CIA: Eliot Higgins, the founder of the online investigation outfit “Bellingcat” has had a ton of successes – like uncovering the identities of Russian assassins who tried to poison ...

February 25, 2021 | The Spymaster of Baghdad

BOOK REVIEW: The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS by Margaret Coker / Dey Street Books Reviewed by Sonya Lim, former ...

February 24, 2021 | Erin Sikorsky and Kristin Wood

Kristin Wood, Sr. Climate Editor, The Cipher Brief Kristin Wood is the Senior Climate Editor for The Cipher Brief, a Cipher Brief expert, a non-resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy ...

February 24, 2021 | Javed Ali

Javed Ali is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and served in senior roles at the Federal Bureau of ...

February 23, 2021 | James Clapper

In the summer of 2016, then-Director of National Intelligence Lt. Gen. James Clapper began to detect a worrisome trend.  It was an election year, and he was starting to see ...

February 23, 2021 | Walter Pincus

OPINION -- The Biden administration is reviewing not just the February 2020, Trump administration agreement with the Taliban that calls for all U.S. forces to be out of Afghanistan by ...

February 22, 2021 | Daniel Hoffman and Shawnee Delaney

Cipher Brief Expert Daniel N. Hoffman is a retired clandestine services officer and former Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency. His combined 30 years of government service included high-level overseas and domestic positions ...

February 19, 2021 | Alan Maubouche

The Cipher Brief’s Academic Incubator partners with national security-focused programs from colleges and Universities across the country share the work of the next generation of national security leaders.   Alan Maubouche ...

February 18, 2021 | Norman Roule

President Joe Biden’s administration is aiming its Middle East agenda on adhering to campaign promises, examining current policies and undoing some that were enacted under the Trump administration. The U.S. ...

February 17, 2021 | Sir John Sawers

The new COVID-19 national security world is one shaped by a host of national and global security issues that were impacted – both good and bad – by the global ...

February 02, 2021 | Javed Ali and Thomas S. Warrick

Javed Ali, Policymaker in Residence, University of Michigan Javed Ali is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and had ...

January 27, 2021 | Jim Danoy

Jim Danoy, Former Executive, Defense Intelligence Agency Cipher Brief Expert Jim Danoy is a former defense intelligence executive and served as the National Intelligence Manager for Europe and NATO at ...

January 25, 2021 | James Clapper and Joseph DeTrani

North Korea’s party Congress, held earlier this month, offered some insight into what Leader Kim Jong Un is thinking when it comes to the country’s nuclear ambitions with a Biden ...

January 21, 2021 | ADM James Stavridis

CLIMATE -- One of President Biden’s first areas of focus after taking office on Wednesday was on the climate, reinstating a commitment that the US will rejoin the Paris climate ...

January 20, 2021 | The Cipher Brief

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, better known as INR, is charged with providing intelligence products in support of U.S. diplomatic efforts around the world. Established in 1947 ...

January 18, 2021 | Christopher Turner

(Photo caption:  Full-size dummy LCTs, codenamed BIGBOB, moored in South East England before the Normandy invasion (British Imperial War Museums, photograph H 42527, public domain).  This article was adapted from a ...

March 02, 2021 | The Cipher Brief

In a letter obtained by The Cipher Brief this week, former CIA Directors and Acting Directors, including former Director Gina Haspel, endorsed CIA Director Bill Burns in his new role ...

February 26, 2021 | Anonymous

A COMPLIMENT FOR THE CIA: Eliot Higgins, the founder of the online investigation outfit “Bellingcat” has had a ton of successes – like uncovering the identities of Russian assassins who tried to poison ...

February 24, 2021 | Erin Sikorsky and Kristin Wood

Kristin Wood, Sr. Climate Editor, The Cipher Brief Kristin Wood is the Senior Climate Editor for The Cipher Brief, a Cipher Brief expert, a non-resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy ...

February 23, 2021 | James Clapper

In the summer of 2016, then-Director of National Intelligence Lt. Gen. James Clapper began to detect a worrisome trend.  It was an election year, and he was starting to see ...

February 18, 2021 | Norman Roule

President Joe Biden’s administration is aiming its Middle East agenda on adhering to campaign promises, examining current policies and undoing some that were enacted under the Trump administration. The U.S. ...

February 17, 2021 | Sir John Sawers

The new COVID-19 national security world is one shaped by a host of national and global security issues that were impacted – both good and bad – by the global ...

February 02, 2021 | Javed Ali and Thomas S. Warrick

Javed Ali, Policymaker in Residence, University of Michigan Javed Ali is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and had ...

January 27, 2021 | Jim Danoy

Jim Danoy, Former Executive, Defense Intelligence Agency Cipher Brief Expert Jim Danoy is a former defense intelligence executive and served as the National Intelligence Manager for Europe and NATO at ...

January 25, 2021 | James Clapper and Joseph DeTrani

North Korea’s party Congress, held earlier this month, offered some insight into what Leader Kim Jong Un is thinking when it comes to the country’s nuclear ambitions with a Biden ...

January 21, 2021 | ADM James Stavridis

CLIMATE -- One of President Biden’s first areas of focus after taking office on Wednesday was on the climate, reinstating a commitment that the US will rejoin the Paris climate ...

January 20, 2021 | The Cipher Brief

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, better known as INR, is charged with providing intelligence products in support of U.S. diplomatic efforts around the world. Established in 1947 ...

January 18, 2021 | Christopher Turner

(Photo caption:  Full-size dummy LCTs, codenamed BIGBOB, moored in South East England before the Normandy invasion (British Imperial War Museums, photograph H 42527, public domain).  This article was adapted from a ...