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 — Many moons ago, when I started my training as an operations officer, the world and country were in a different place. Everyone I […] 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
OPINION/ENTERTAINMENT — It’s a truth about clandestine operations that you can do everything right, and things will still go wrong. The wise ops officer plans […] More
OPINION — It’s been true for a long time that female intelligence professionals have been giving the CIA and the United States a tremendous advantage […] 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 — Last year, Congress spent 52 billion dollars on the CHIPS Act to advance the semiconductor industry in the United States because semiconductors are […] 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 – Russia’s arrest of Wall Street Journal journalist and US citizen, Evan Gershkovich, on espionage charges is the latest example of the Russian Federal […] More
OPINION — Last Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the illegal intelligence department [Division S] of his Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) on its 100th anniversary in […] More
EXPERT ANALYSIS — Since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine began, Europe has embarked on a purge of Russian spies that has been described as “the largest mass […] More
OPINION — “The beginning of wisdom”, according to a quote ascribed to Confucius, “is to call things by their proper name.” That saying came to […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month, the US government expelled 13 Russian diplomats working at the United Nations. It did […] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — I hope CIA has an agent like Dmitry Polyakov operating in Moscow right now. A Major General in Soviet Military Intelligence (the […] More
EXPERT OPINION — More than 200 U.S. officers have been hunted around the globe and targeted by an adversary using a mysterious weapon that causes […] More
Val LeTellier is a veteran intelligence officer. Before his career as a CIA case officer, he served as a State Department Diplomatic Security Special Agent. […] More
In the midst of World War II, facing multiple threats in a complicated series of engagements around the world, the US and the UK entered […] More
Ellen McCarthy, Former Asst. Secretary of State for Intelligence & Research Cipher Brief Expert Ellen E. McCarthy was appointed by President Trump to be the […] More
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