Dead Drop: April 13
LIKE A BOLTON OUT OF THE BLUE: There was lots of news made at The Cipher Brief annual Threat Conference in Sea Island, Ga., last […] More
Dead Drop: April, 2018
Dead Drop: April 6
IN DEFENSE OF DIPLOMACY: About 200 retired U.S. Ambassadors have written to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman and ranking member, motivated by President Donald […] More
Dead Drop: March 30
H.R. HEAVE HO TIMELINE: Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster’s eventual departure as National Security Advisor did not come as a surprise. There were lots of rumors […] More
Dead Drop: March 23
COHN OF SILENCE: Apparently a big fan of on-the-job training, President Donald Trump (according to Politico) recently offered the job of CIA director to outgoing […] More
Dead Drop: March 16
FOGGY BOTTOM BOUND? As long-predicted, and long-denied, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to become Secretary of State. The […] More
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
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