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Espionage Strategy: Russia's Long View vs. America's Short-Term Goals

As part of our special coverage of Foreign Influence, Domestic Division: Russia, the 2016 Election, and Trump’s Rebuke of the U.S. Intelligence Community, The Cipher Brief’s Executive Editor Fionnuala Sweeney speaks to Rob Richer, former CIA Associate Deputy Director for Operations and formerly chief of Russian Operations. She asked him for his opinion on Russia’s objectives and how it conducts itself in the field of espionage.

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