Dead Drop: November 16
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR WOMAN-KIND? The Dead Drop hears that Gina Haspel, the first woman to serve as CIA Director, either has – or soon will […] More
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Dead Drop: November 9
YOU TOO CAN LEARN HOW TO BELL THE CAT: In recent weeks we have marveled at how a group of self-described“gifted nerds” has exposed the deadly and oft-times dumb work of […] More
Dead Drop: November 2
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Joshua Schulte is a former CIA employee now residing in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan. Schulte is facing charges […] More
Dead Drop: October 26
OH, SO SOCIAL SEASON: The annual OSS Society dinner was held in Washington on October 21, and by all accounts, a smashing time was had. According […] More
Dead Drop: October 19
‘EXPERT’ COMMENTATOR: TV commentator and former CIA Officer Robert Baer recently appeared on CNN to talk about the strange circumstances surrounding the death of Washington […] More
Dead Drop: October 12
BUT LEE PERSISTED: The disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul has sparked enormous news coverage – perhaps nowhere more than in […] More
The Dead Drop: October 5
STRAIGHT UP WTF: ANI, which describes itself as “South Asia’s Leading Multimedia News Agency” reported this week that Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Makhdoom Mehmood Shah Qureshi, says Islamabad is […] More
Dead Drop: September 28
DECIPHERING THE D/CIA: The Dead Drop poked some fun at the drastic differences in the headlines this week after CIA Director Gina Haspel’s first public […] More
Dead Drop: September 21
NEWS FLASH: Media All Over Map About CIA Director’s Public Comments, According to Headlines The Dead Drop can’t help but poke fun at the media headlines that […] More
Dead Drop: September 14
WE’RE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER: Back when John Brennan was CIA director and made a lot of minds of clandestine service officers explode by saying “We don’t […] More
Dead Drop: September 7
THE GREAT NETWORK OF CHINA: William Evanina, the U.S. counter-intelligence chief, told Reuters late last week that Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to connect with […] More
Dead Drop: August 31
HOW I MISSPENT MY SUMMER VACATION: Earlier this month, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) chairman Devin Nunes undertook a secret mission. According to The Atlantic, […] More
Dead Drop: August 24
TROUBLESOME LETTERS: We hear the people who have been putting together those open letters decrying the president’s action stripping former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearances […] More
Dead Drop: August 17
CIA DIRECTOR ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP TEAM: CIA Director Gina Haspel is naming 32-year career officer Andrew “Andy” Makridis as the Agency’s new COO, and 34-year career officer Sonya […] More
Dead Drop: August 10
THE DUST-BINNEY OF HISTORY: In July of last year a group of contrarian former government officials who call themselves “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity” (VIPS) came […] More
Dead Drop: August 3
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Dead Drop: July 27
NEW NUMBER 2: President Trump intends to appoint a veteran Agency officer to serve as CIA’s Deputy Director. Vaughn F. Bishop spent 30 years at the […] More
Dead Drop: July 20
HEAD SCRATCHER: A lot of current and former intelligence officials we know are trying to decipher an @realDonaldTrump tweet from last Wednesday which asserted: “So many people at […] More