E-Commerce Lessons for Espionage
OPINION — I recently enjoyed an overdue reunion with some college friends, wrongly assuming war stories from this retired CIA officer would wow my pals […] More
OPINION — I recently enjoyed an overdue reunion with some college friends, wrongly assuming war stories from this retired CIA officer would wow my pals […] More
OPINION / EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — After 9/11, the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) at CIA created a ‘Red Cell’ that was given the mission of truly […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE/OPINION: The explosion of online data, rapid advances in artificial intelligence and the proliferation of entities using and sharing them are transforming the way […] More
HOLIDAY SPECIAL REPORT – In this season of giving, your friendly neighborhood Cipher Brief “Undercover” team – which spends the bulk of the year publishing […] More
OPINION — The Intelligence Community (IC), in a recent press release, said it will lose what it has “used every day to protect the nation […] More
The Cipher Brief recently hosted a Subscriber+Members briefing with former Senior CIA Officer Glenn Corn, who served as the president’s senior representative on Intelligence and […] More
OPINION — On the eve of our most American holiday, let me wish all a hearty appetite as they carve their Roman chicken, Ethiopian rooster, […] More
OPINION / EXPERT PERSPECTIVE – Secret Intelligence, that material acquired through clandestine or sensitive means, makes up a small but important part of the vast […] More
SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING – CIA Director Bill Burns is in the Middle East as part of a Biden Administration push to ease tensions in the region […] More
OPINION — Evolving technology, shifting organizational behaviors, and information overload increasingly tested my decades-old operational instincts and as I looked at retirement options, the progress […] More
OPINION — One of the best things about being a retired CIA ops officer is now that people know I was a “spy,” I am […] More
OPINION — CIA Director William Burns’ recent remarks to the Ditchley Foundation highlighted three key challenges to American security; (1) strategic geopolitical competition; (2) transnational […] More
OPINION — “We are, as President Biden reminds us, at an inflection point. The post-Cold War era is definitely over. Our task is to shape […] More
How to Look Before you Leap from Government to the Private Sector This is part 2 in a 3-part series on transitioning your professional skills […] More
OPINION — The unauthorized release of classified information and the subsequent arrest of Jack Teixeira has raised important questions. Why does the Air National Guard […] More
OPINION — Having dealt with the investigation of, and fall-out from, Edward Snowden’s treachery while I served as CIA’s Chief of Counterintelligence (CI), the ongoing […] More
OPINION — Like many Americans who came of age in the 1980s, I have lasting childhood memories of the Space Shuttle program. The Shuttle program […] More
OPINION — Robert Baer’s book The Fourth Man leads readers to conclude—falsely—that highly accomplished, retired CIA officer Paul Redmond was himself a long-time spy for the […] More
BREAKING TODAY — Former CIA Director Gina Haspel is taking over as Chair of The CIA Officers Memorial Foundation’s board of directors. Haspel replaces Jeffrey […] More
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