We Need to Reposition to Better Address the Disinformation Threat

Posted: April 29th, 2020

By Christopher Costa

Colonel (Ret) Christopher Costa formerly served as Special Assistant to the President & Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the White House. Costa is currently the Executive Director of the International Spy Museum. His 34-year DoD career included 25 years as an intelligence officer serving with Special Operations Forces (SOF). Colonel Costa earned two Bronze stars for sensitive human intelligence work in Afghanistan. As a civilian at Naval Special Warfare Development Group, he was inducted into United States Special Operation’s Commando Hall of Honor for lifetime service to US Special Operations.

The Cipher Brief Threat Conference has been re-scheduled for September 13-15, 2020. This special series of national security briefings has been launched to keep our public-private threat conference community together and engaged on the issues that matter until we can safely gather again.

Conference speaker Christopher Costa is a former intelligence officer and former Special Assistant to the President. He currently serves as Executive Director of the International Spy Museum and is an advisor Mission Solutions Group, a premiere conference sponsor.

“The Cipher Brief has become the most popular outlet for former intelligence officers; no media outlet is even a close second to The Cipher Brief in terms of the number of articles published by formers.” —Sept. 2018, Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 62

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