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Former CIA Officer Alex Finley and her Oligarch Yachts

AUTHOR INTERVIEW — When The Cipher Brief last crossed paths with author Alex Finley, we delved into the exploits of Victor Caro, the central [...] More

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How a CIA Analyst Spots Fake News

Ever wonder how a CIA Analyst spots fake news? A new book out today by former CIA Analyst Cindy Otis, True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to [...] More

A Guide for the Transition Mission

Alison Bouwmeester spent 28 years working as a CIA case officer. When she retired and went to work in the private sector, she found that many of her [...] More

An Inside Account of the US Evacuation from Libya

Sarah Carlson is the author of a new book, In the Dark of War: A CIA Officer’s Inside Account of the U.S. Evacuation from Libya based in part, on her [...] More

The Ex-Spy's Reading List in the Age of COVID-19

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 [...] More

Author Gordon Corera talks about the Russians Among Us

Long-time BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera recently published a new book, Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for [...] More

Behind the Budapest Escape

Undercover readers might remember that we introduced you this past spring to Bill Rapp, a former CIA analyst turned author. He’s an interesting [...] More

So You Think You've Got a Book in You?

Under/Cover is constantly probing for insights that will help readers (and writers) understand how to gauge demand, and how to know if that story [...] More

The Moral Future of the Internet

Investigative journalist Joseph Menn, author of the recently released Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the [...] More

A Rapp Sheet Worth Writing About

Bill Rapp’s real story is just as interesting as the ones he makes up. The former CIA Analyst began working in West Germany back when the country was [...] More

Why the U.S. is Losing the War on Extremism

Extremist organizations are successfully preying on a rising generation of nearly one billion Muslim millennials in order to add to their ranks, [...] More

Part Two: On Becoming Brad Meltzer

Thriller writer Brad Meltzer has written 32 books. Most of them are children’s books, many are thrillers, 2 are ‘How-To’ books, 1 is a TV book and [...] More

Brad Meltzer's First Conspiracy

It’s not exactly his first conspiracy, but thriller writer Brad Meltzer’s new book, First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington, is [...] More