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John Sipher
Former Member, CIA's Senior Intelligence Service

John Sipher retired in 2014 after a 28-year career in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, which included serving in Moscow and running the CIA’s Russia operations. Sipher served multiple overseas tours, as Chief of Station and Deputy Chief of Station, in Europe, the Balkans, Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. He also ran Russian operations at headquarters. He retired as a member of the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service, and received the CIA’s Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. He is the co-founder of Spycraft Entertainment.

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What About Election Meddling by U.S. Intelligence?
November 2, 2017November 2, 2017
In an otherwise forgettable February 2017 interview, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly asked Donald Trump how he could respect Russian President Vladimir Putin, who O’Reilly labeled as a “killer.”...
Preventing Zombie Intel Officers From Stealing Any Secrets They Can
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How Trump Changed Putin’s Calculus in Hamburg
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President Trump’s second, private meeting with Russian President Putin at the recent G20 meeting has been the subject of considerable scrutiny. While perhaps politically unwise or even possibly...
U.S.-Russian Cooperation on ISIS: Do We Want Our Face Ripped Off Again?
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Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News recently reported that the Trump Administration sought to lift economic sanctions on Russia immediately after entering office, leading to an under-the-radar battle...
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Ambassador Husain Haqqani is a Senior Fellow and the Director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute.  He previously served as Pakistan's ambassador to the United States from 2008-2011 and as an advisor to four Pakistani Prime ministers, Yusuf Raza Gilani, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, and Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi.

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