Dead Drop: March 18
GOOD DEAL AS LONG AS THEY DON’T PAY IN RUBLES: It has been reported that a Ukrainian defense contractor (with the melodious name of “Ukroboronprom”) has […] More
Dead Drop: March, 2022
Dead Drop: March 11
FINALLY FILLING SEATS: There were a couple high-power personnel announcements in the Intelligence Community this week. DNI Avril Haines welcomed Dr. Adele Merritt as the IC Chief Information […] More
Dead Drop: March 4
PUTIN WANTED TO INVADE UKRAINE IN THE WORST WAY: And he did. It’s difficult to write about a story like the invasion of Ukraine because the […] More
Dead Drop: February 25
LEGITIMATE POLITICAL DISCOURSE? Our thoughts and prayers are with Ukrainians right now, as they fight for their very existence. Before Russian Vladimir Putin gave the order […] More
Dead Drop: February 18
ZERO COINCIDENCE? At a time when the public and media have been noticing the administration declassifying lots of intelligence relating to the Russian threats to […] More
Dead Drop: February 11
STATECRAFT LEAKERS? Politico carried a recent story with the headline: “Spy world wary as Biden team keeps leaking Russia intel” which quoted an unnamed “former CIA officer […] More
Dead Drop: February 4
SLIM KIM, RIDING INTO THE SUNSET: Don’t read too much into that. Pyongyang leader Kim Jong Un has dropped a bunch of weight and is pictured […] More
Dead Drop: January 28
AIR D&D: Looking for a country getaway? Have we got a deal for you. According to The Guardian, the government of Lithuania is putting up for sale, a […] More
Dead Drop: January 21
BAD NUMBERS: The Gallup polling people are out with their periodic rating of the public’s perception of the honesty and ethics of major occupations. The good news is […] More
Dead Drop: January 14
IARPA FOR THE WIN: On Tuesday January 20, Dr. Catherine Marsh, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (say that three times fast) joins Cipher Brief CEO […] More
Dead Drop: January 7
THE CHINESE ARE BAD ACTORS: Not just the government – but also their actors. The Chinese news agency Xinhua released a 4 minute and 41 second English-language […] More
Dead Drop: December 31
FAMILY AFFAIR: On December 22, the Turkish news site “Daily Sabah” (which is said to be closely aligned with the party of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan) reported that […] More
Dead Drop: December 24
UMM…BECAUSE THEY DO BAD THINGS? Joe Weisberg, creator of the excellent TV series “The Americans” had a provocative opinion piece in The Washington Post recently titled: “The Cold […] More
Dead Drop: December 17
ARMED CONFLICT: There’s a podcast on ClearanceJobs.com featuring Rick Diaz who, in 1995, just two weeks shy of getting out of the military and a scheduled start at […] More
Dead Drop: December 10
WAXING POWER OF DIPLOMACY: It was with a sigh of relief when we read that the U.S. and Russia may have quietly agreed to quit making […] More
Dead Drop – December 3
SACRED OATH (KEEPERS): You have probably heard that former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is suing his former Agency for dragging their feet on clearing his memoir, A […] More
Dead Drop – November 26
COULDN’T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY: In last week’s Dead Drop we told you about Matthew Marshall, a Whitefish, Montana man who pleaded guilty to defrauding someone of […] More
Dead Drop – November 19
ONE FOR THE RECORD BOOKS: A Whitefish, Montana man pleaded guilty last week to defrauding another man of $2.3 million by getting him to donate money for “off-the-books” […] More