CHALK MARKS / OPINION — Spying isn’t a funny business. The stakes are too high, egos too big, mistakes too consequential. That isn’t to say spying [...]
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ENTERTAINMENT — “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.”This opening sentence of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is one of the [...]
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CHALK MARKS / COLUMN — If you craft a list of professionals who by virtue of their job knowingly undertake an effort they expect to go badly, it will [...]
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CHALK MARKS / OPINION / ENTERTAINMENT — In a January long past, in one of those places that has dozens of words for snow, I was walking through a [...]
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OPINION/ENTERTAINMENT — It’s a truth about clandestine operations that you can do everything right, and things will still go wrong. The wise ops [...]
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW — When The Cipher Brief last crossed paths with author Alex Finley, we delved into the exploits of Victor Caro, the central [...]
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Cipher Brief UnderCover senior editor, Bill Harlow talks with journalist and author Toby Harnden about his new book, First Casualty: The Untold Story [...]
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In the world of national security, it can't all be so serious, so here's a preview of what's waiting for you in this week's Dead Drop:GAME OF THROWS: [...]
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(The Cipher Brief is an amazon affiliate and may make a small commission on books purchased via The Cipher Brief. )UnderCover Senior Book Editor Bill [...]
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The Listening Post focuses on the experiences of women in the national security space. This new column is a collection of stories, interviews, and [...]
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The Listening Post is a new Cipher Brief column specifically highlighting the experiences of women in the national security space. This new column is [...]
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This column is part of our new series, ‘From the C-Suite’, focused on how leaders from the private sector are driving change and innovation in the [...]
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In the age of COVID-19, The Cipher Brief reached out to our expert network to ask what they were reading. Cipher Brief Expert Marc Polymeropoulos [...]
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In the latest edition of our State Secrets podcast, Cipher Brief COO Brad Christian talks with Brian Raymond who works for Primer, one of our [...]
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