Dead Drop: March 9
BREAKING THE CODE ON CYBER HIRES: The Economist is out with an article about the U.S. intelligence community’s search for creative ways to compete for […] More
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Dead Drop: March 2
REDACT-ULOUS: Last Saturday afternoon, the Trump administration authorized House Democrats to release their rebuttal memo to the House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., “DOJ […] More
Dead Drop: February 23
DARK ROOTS: Wayne Allyn Root is a conservative commentator and talk show host we never heard of before. But he must be a player because, […] More
Dead Drop: February 16
IT IS HIS SWAMP: Late last Friday, The New York Times and The Intercept published stories which alleged that in 2017, through an intermediary, the […] More
Dead Drop: February 9
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Seasoned Dead Drop readers (i.e. old ones) may remember the mystery of D.B. Cooper, a guy who hijacked a Seattle, Wash.-bound […] More
Dead Drop: February 2
SUPPRESSIVE IMPRESSION: Mike Pompeo invited BBC reporter Gordon Correa into his CIA headquarters for an interview published on Monday. (The fact that a non-U.S. reporter […] More
Dead Drop: January 26
CRUSHING FOES AND KILLER GRAPHICS: CIA Director Mike Pompeo invited CBS News to his headquarters for a lengthy interview that aired on “CBS This Morning” […] More
Dead Drop: January 19
MOBY TWIST: The “electronic musician” known as “Moby” has come up with a whale of a tale. Moby’s real name is Richard Melville Hall and […] More
Dead Drop: January 12
RISING TO THE DEFENSE: Some CIA watchers couldn’t help but notice that agency director Mike Pompeo was among a small group of administration officials sent […] More
Dead Drop on NSA’s Adm. Mike Rogers
CHANGE AT TOP OF NSA: Dead Drop sources tell The Cipher Brief that National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers has told his staff that he will […] More
Dead Drop: December 29
HAVEN HELP US? Industrial-scale leaker and accused traitor Edward Snowden announced from his refuge in Russia last week that he has created a new phone […] More
Dead Drop: December 22
THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: You can’t make this stuff up. If you had predicted this a year ago, we might have checked to see […] More
Dead Drop: December 15
HIGH COTTON: Conservative pundit Fred Barnes wrote in the Weekly Standard that the rumored nomination of Senator Tom Cotton to become CIA director “is one […] More
Dead Drop: December 8
REXIT?: A flurry of news reports last week said there was a plan in place for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to leave office – […] More
Dead Drop: December 1
SEMPER CRAZY: Hal Turner is a radio host who makes conspiracy peddler Alex Jones seem normal. Last week Turner posted on his website “reports” that […] More
Dead Drop: November 24
LED BY HACKS, NO DOUBT: The (South) Korean news agency Yonhap reported this week that North Korea is conducting a “rare inspection” of its military’s […] More
Dead Drop: November 17
“CONSIDERING THE SOURCE”: Retired DNI Jim Clapper told an agent for the Dead Drop what it’s like to be called a “political hack” by President […] More
Dead Drop November 10
NOW YOU SEE ‘EM… Hey, remember the big splash made on November 1 when the CIA released an additional 470,000 files captured in the 2011 […] More