Is the US Staying on Top of its Espionage Game?

August 28th, 2020 by Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, | 0 Comments

As part of The Cipher Brief’s look at known Russian spies, we spoke with Cipher Brief Expert Rolf Mowatt-Larssen about the spy game and a potential difference in focus when it comes to human espionage carried out on behalf of both the US and Russia.

Mowatt-Larssen is a senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center and served over three years as the Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of Energy.

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